1. Create a new Visual Studio project.
2. From the Project menu, select Add New Item.
3. In the Add New Item dialog that appears, select ActiveReports 12 Page Report and in the Name field, rename the file to CustomersPopulation.
4. Click the Add button to open a new fixed page report in the designer.

See Adding an ActiveReport to a Project for information on adding different report layouts.

1. In the Report Explorer, right-click the Data Sources node and select the Add Data Source option or select Data Source from the Add button.
   
2. In the Report Data Source Dialog that appears, select the General page and in the Name field, enter a name like ReportData.
3. On this page, create a connection to the Reels database. See Connect to a Data Source for information on connecting to a data source.

1. In the Report Explorer, right-click the data source node and select the Add Data Set option or select Data Set from the Add button.
2. In the DataSet Dialog that appears, select the General page and enter the name of the dataset as Customers. This name appears as a child node to the data source icon in the Report Explorer.
3. On the Query page of this dialog, in the Query field enter the following SQL query.

   SQL Query	Copy Code
   SELECT Address.Region, Customer.CustomerID FROM (Address INNER JOIN Person ON Address.[AddressID] = Person.[AddressID]) INNER JOIN Customer ON Person.[PersonID] = Customer.[PersonID];

4. Click the Validate DataSet icon at the top right hand corner above the Query box to validate the query.
   
5. Click OK to close the dialog. Your data set and queried fields appear as nodes in the Report Explorer.

1. From the Visual Studio toolbox, drag and drop a Map control onto the design surface.
2. In the Select a Map Template wizard that appears, select the USA Map template.
3. Click the Map until the map panes appear.
4. In the layers pane, right click PolygonLayer1 and select Layer Data to open Map Layer Data Properties dialog.
5. In the Map Layer Data Properties dialog that appears, go to the Analytical data page.
6. Select Customers from the Dataset property combo box and then click the Add (+) button located next to the Match label. This creates an empty match item and enables its Spatial and Analytical fields editor.
   Note: It is necessary to set match fields if you want to use a spatial data field from analytical data, or if you want to visualize analytical data on the map layer. Match fields enable the report processor to build a relationship between the analytical data and the spatial data.
7. In the Spatial field property, select STATE_ABBR from the combo box; and similarly, select =Fields!Region.Value in the Analytical field property. This builds the match field expression and relates the analytical data to map elements on a polygon layer.
8. Click OK to close the dialog.

1. In the layers pane, right click PolygonLayer1 and select Edit to open Map Polygon Layer dialog.
2. In the General page of the dialog, select #STATE_NAME from the Label Text combo box to display as label inside polygons at run time.
3. Go to the Color Rule page of the dialog, and select Visualize data by using color palette option. This activates the tabs below.
4. On the General tab, enter the following expression =Count([CustomerID]) in the Data field property and set Palette property to SemiTransparent.
5. On the Distribution tab, set the Method property to EqualInterval.
6. On the Legends tab, click to select Show in Legend.
7. In Legend Name, enter Legend. This name relates to the default legend that appears in the Legend collection.
8. Click OK to close the dialog.
9. On the design surface, click on the Map control to select it and go to the Properties Window to set the following properties:

   Properties

   Property Name	Property Value
   BackgroundColor	White
   BackgroundGradientEndColor	White
   BorderStyle	Solid
   ColorScale > Hidden	True
   DistanceScale > Hidden	True
   Location	0in, 0.625in
   Size	6.5in, 4.75in
   ViewPort > BackgroundColor	LightSteelBlue
   ViewPort > BackgroundGradientEndColor	White
   ViewPort > BorderStyle	None
   ViewPort > CoordinateSystem	Planar
   ViewPort > Margin > Right	20pt
   ViewPort > Meridians > Hidden	True
   ViewPort > Parallels > Hidden	True
   ViewPort > View > Zoom	115

10. With the Map control selected, go to the Properties window, click the Legends (Collection) property and then click the ellipsis button that appears.
11. In the LegendDesigner Collection Editor that appears, under the Members list, select the existing legend and set the following properties:

    Properties

    Property Name	Property Value
    BackgroundColor	LightSteelBlue
    BackgroundGradientEndColor	White
    Location > DockOutsideViewport	False
    Location > DockPosition	RightBottom
    Title > (Caption)	Number of Customers
    Title > Font	Normal, Arial, 10pt, Bold

12. Click OK to close the dialog.
13. With the Map control selected, go to the Properties window, click the Titles (Collection) property and then click the ellipsis button that appears.
14. In the MapTitleDesigner Collection Editor that appears, with Title selected in the Members list set the following properties:

    Properties

    Property Name	Property Value
    (Text)	Customers Population
    Color	Black

15. Click OK to close the dialog.

• Click the preview tab to view the report at design time.

OR

• Open the report in the Viewer. See Windows Forms Viewer for further information.