Comments in SSRS Report Expressions

Question

I'm using some complicated expressions in Reporting Services to control the value, format etc of data in a report (see MSDN).

Is it possible to insert code comments into these expressions, and if so, what is the syntax?

By code comments I mean something like:

// single line comment
/* or multi line comment */

Solution 1

It looks like VB Code.
Try using apostrophe to write a comment.

'This is a sample comment.

This is a guess :)

EDIT: VB doesn't really have multiline comment.
However, try using the following to see if it works

'This is a sample comment _
followed by a new line _
and the comment ends

If that doesn't work, you could do

'This is a sample comment
'followed by a new line
'and the comment ends

EDIT2: Also, it seems that comment should be in the end.

Solution 2

If you would like to comment a switch statement you could do something like this:

=switch(
   false, "--- First, test if above zero ---"
   , Parameters!Test.Value > 0
   , "Value is above zero. Yeah!"

   , false, "--- Then test if -1 ---"
   , Parameters!Test.Value = -1
   , "I guess the value is unknown"

   , false, "--- Finally catch everything else ---"
   , true
   , "We could not handle this value. Sorry :-\"
)

The lines with false will never be hit and that way you could use them as a comment. Not very beautiful but quite useful :-)