title: How to do you add an Entity Framework object data source to an RDLC report in VS 2010?
body: <p>I am trying to lay out an RDLC report for an ASP.NET application.  I am using the entity framework and have a partial class that returns a list of entities generated from the EDMX designer.  All files are namespaced correctly and in the same project to simplify the problem.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to work through the sample here:
  <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251692(VS.100).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251692(VS.100).aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>...with the goal of rendering the report to the response stream in ASP.NET MVC via an ActionResult.</p>
  
  <p>In the "Design the Report" section, on step 2 it says to select 'global', at which point my entity should be available.  Unfortunately, there is no global and I can find no other way to reference the IList static method from my model.</p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, it appears as though there is no way to add an object data source to the report (as in IDEs of yore) as there is no 'Data Sources' tool window.</p>
  
  <p>There is a 'Report data' tool window, but there are no options to add a data source (other than if I wanted to create a DataSet, which I don't).  If I use the dataset approach I cannot layout my report based on the objects generated from EF.</p>
  
  <p>How do I add the entity reference (object data source) to the report so that it is aware of my model objects?</p>