Local RDLC report file with custom IEnumerable<> - asp.net

I am trying to create a local mode (rdlc) report in my web application.
The source for my report is an IEnumerable of type Customer, each of which has a nested IEnumerable of CustomerOrders as a property.
I'm confused how to create a RDLC report that can show all of the customers, and for each customer show all of the orders.
This post talks about how to create a dataset with a format that matches your IEnumerable format, and then substitute it at run time with the actual data you want to use, but I don't know how to define a dataset that matches this IEnumerable, and besides it seems somewhat clunky that I'd need to define a dataset for a report when I have a perfectly good type..
Is this possible in RDLC files?
Thanks!

So it turns out that I could do this by following these steps:
1) In a service class, I expose a dummy method that returns an IEnumerable
2) When I create a new local RDLC, using the wizard, I can select this method as the source of the report. I don't have to use that method, but it allows the report to read my type and gives me the properties from my enumerable to use in my report.
3) When it comes to running the report, I can then in my code behind, specify the actual data I want to use for the report:
this.ReportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(new ReportDataSource("ReportDataSource", dataForReport));
Hope this helps someone!

Here is a really good example of doing something similar to what you are trying to do:
http://www.gotreportviewer.com/masterdetail/index.html
This also includes code sample downloads. Basically you will want to embed a table into a list.

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I'm getting following error message when I generate the report via report viewer.
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I was given a report today with a normal embedded data set (dataset1) and data source (datasource1) but the data set query is just a number: '1411'. The previous programer manually entered fields (not calculated fields) into the field tab.
When I click RUN, it works.
How is it populating the page without a proper query?
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-In Report Properties there is no VB code.
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In SQL Server for example you could conceivably have a stored procedure called [1411] that returned a data set.
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Maybe I shouldn't use a custom table at all ?
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Is it possible to add properties to my model that dont exist in the database?
For example I have a calendar table, I want to retireve this data in my MVC controller then work out time left until each entry starts and return this to the view. So I would like another property in my calendar model to hold time left which is a value that I will generate outside of the database.
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http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/archive/2008/12/18/my-christmas-present-to-the-entity-framework-community.aspx
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