April 2004 - Posts
I've just posted what I hope will be the first of a series of articles on how to create SharePoint webparts for Reporting Services. This first article just gives some background information on how this can be done and creates a simple webpart that displays
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Dare comments : RSS Bandit [currently] gives you the option to download and upload your feed list from a file share, an FTP server or a dasBlog weblog. However this doesn't actually do much synchronization during the import phase, basically it just adds
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Eric Gunnerson on Loops : So, I would choose the foreach version unless I needed the index. In fact, I would advocate this position even if for loops are faster, to avoid the sin of premature optimization . What was funny to me when I read this was that
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As I mentioned here , one of the projects I've done at Countrywide was build a group of WebParts for Reporting Services (I'm still looking into releasing these at some point). Recently I added an Export Report webpart that allows the user to export the
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Michael Rys clarifies some old comments by Euan Garden about the Xml datatype in Yukon. If you store the XML instance in an XML datatype, we will use an XML Reader that will parse the XML and store it in an internal binary format that - among other things
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If you haven't taken a look at Channel 9 yet you should. My favorite part of channel 9 is the video clips done by Scoble . The latest one is a tour of MSDN with Chris Sells . Very fun to watch. If you've never been on campus before then these videos will
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[via Don Box ] Fellow Band on the Runtime member Ted Pattison is doing SharePoint stuff over at Barracuda. Alas, too many SDKs, not enough time… This looks like something my group might be interested. It's too bad we just missed the Hands-on classes,
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[via Neowin ] Microsoft released a software add-on Monday for the 2003 and 2002 versions of Outlook that allows the e-mail clients to work with a server running IBM's Lotus Domino software. The Notes Connector is available now for free download . It works
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Ok so recently I decided to switch my main development platform from Windows Server 2003 to Windows XP. This move was mainly inspired by the fact that I won't need to have IIS 6.0 to do web development in Whidbey based on what I saw at the PDC. So I decided
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Well I'm back from the MVP Summit. It was a great event. I really enjoyed the time I got to spend hanging out with everyone and discussing techy things. One of the highlights of the event was the WS-Sushi party organized by Kirk. That was a lot of fun.
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A while back Tom Rizzo posted some thing to try out in reporting services . I tried some of them out and asked a few questions . Tom responded in the comments section on my blog (which I think is pretty cool) with some answers. Specifically Tom answered
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Get it here . Note: It seems you must have BizTalk 2004 installed in order to install the SDK.
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