Thank you, Michael! Exactly what I'm looking for.

Stever, thank you very much for this editorial. Where I work all applications are 2-tier applications. Just the UI and the database. In previous jobs I would write APIs to...

Great editorial, Grant, thank you for writing it!!

It really comes down to how you want to architect your reporting solution.  If you need to embed the reports into your application - then using RDLC reports is...

Understood but that's not my question.  To be more clear, you stated that...

I'd rather write components in a project written in C# that yield the results that would...

I'm not a SSRS expert. I know enough to get myself in trouble. Anyway, if memory serves, I recall seeing somewhere a blog post, maybe a Microsoft documentation...

That is very good to know, thank you!

Is there a minimum version of Visual Studio that will work with SSRS 2016?

Where can I learn more about using what I'm calling a "component project" to retrieve the data for the SSRS report? Is "Component Project" correct or is there a different...

I would encourage everyone to do research into how much it will cost to host stuff in the cloud.

We have a simple web application with a small...

I would encourage everyone to do research into how much it will cost to host stuff in the cloud.

We have a simple web application with a small database...

I would encourage everyone to do research into how much it will cost to host stuff in the cloud.

We have a simple web application with a small database in...

Is there a different in how you architect an app, depending upon if you choose a IaaS vs. PaaS approach? If we just did a lift-and-shift the VM's...

Is there a different in how you architect an app, depending upon if you choose a IaaS vs. PaaS approach? If we just did a lift-and-shift the VM's...

I'm one of those to push myself to learn. I'm often disappointed with myself for not learning more, faster. I think I'm concerned that if I don't push myself, then...

Thank you very much, Steve, for the explanation. I was trying to make it too complicated, although I can see it would be possible to use an Azure Pipelines task...