February 2004 - Posts
For those of you who are interested in reporting services, here are a few Report Services blogs that I have come across recently (and subscribed to). Bryan Keller Kent Tegels I keep wanting to post my blog roll on my blog, but Update: but what? I'm not
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Patrick Tisseghem has added part 3 to his series on Building WebParts for Microsoft SharePoint. The article covers the basics of how to connect WebParts. If you're building WebParts you will also find parts 1 and 2 to be very useful.
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I just finished upgrading the site to the .95 version of .Text . It was a very easy upgrade. It took me a minute to realize I needed to copy the contents of the images folder to the new site folder, but other than that everything was well documented .
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Well I finally got my Reporting Services issue resolved. It seems the problem wasn't really with RS itself, but rather I had entered into some kind of Assembly Hell. Here is what happened. 1) I installed the Resharper Visual Studio add-in. I tried it
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Yesterday I decided I wanted to run Reporting Services on my local development machine which is running Windows Server 2003. I already had the Reporting Services client tools installed. When I ran the Reporting Services Developer version install program
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Tom Rizzo has asked for people to try some things out in Reporting Services . 1) Try customizing Reporting Services via its URL customization. You can easily drop RS into an IFrame, SharePoint, etc. by using an URL. I've done a lot of this recently. It
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Michael Rys has posted his answers to my questions ...
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Michael has posted part 2 of using For Xml in Yukon. He even answered my question from my previous post. I must say I'm very impressed with the new For Xml syntax. It looks like it solves a lot of problems and removes the complexity that kept so many
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Dr. Michael Rys has a great post up on how For Xml nesting will work in Yukon . Obviously, this query is easier to write, understand and maintain. OTOH, due to the fact that we create intermediate XML objects, it may have worse performance characteristics
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Irwin Dolobowsky has started a blog ! Have an issue with SqlXml, this is the guy to blame :) I joined up on the team just at the end of the [SqlXml] 2.0 release cycle. The 3.0 release was given to me completely and I've owned all of the SqlXml releases
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Code Access Security in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services An interesting read on security issues related to reporting services. The article also applies to SharePoint security...
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If you're doing any SharePoint development, then you will almost certainly be familiar with WebParts . WebParts are pretty much just fancy ASP.Net controls that allow the user to place them into WebPart Zones and save a personalized state, all of which
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From Matt Warren 's post on Language Inferencing : And while were at it, lets get rid of variable names. I think I must spend at least 25% of my time thinking up good variable names. If we didn't have to name them, I'd be done so much faster. Subscribed
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One of the interesting things at my new job is the technology culture. The group that I work in is a big MS proponent, but not everyone is. I know nothing when it comes to Java since I've never had to do any programming with it. So when upper management
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So in my last post I mentioned that I have a new job. I now work for Countrywide as a developer in a pretty small group that does mostly reporting. I'm doing a lot of work with SharePoint*, Reporting Services*, Analysis Services*, SQL Server, and .Net.
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Wow it has been a long time since I last blogged. In December I was too busy finishing up school and going on vacations to blog and on January 8th I started a new job. But I feel like things are finally normalizing enough to where I can start blogging
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