Skip to articles

EXPLORE THE ARCHIVE

Month: September 2004

Browse all Insights

Vote for my book

If you liked my book “Microsoft Reporting Services in Action” please take a moment to vote for it at the Second Annual .NETDJ Readers' Choice Awards website. Thank you in advance for your support!

Read article

Export to Excel and Word with SoftArtisians’ OfficeWriter

Version 1.0 of Reporting Services doesn't support exporting reports to Microsoft Word format. It does support exporting to Excel but developers have limited control over the Excel renderer. For example, you may need provide placeholders (bookmarks in Word or markers in Excel) which will be populated during runtime with fields from your report query. SoftArtisians will release soon an RS version of their flagship product OfficeWriter…

Read article

Extending Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services with Custom Code

In this article, I will show you how to leverage the Reporting Services unique extensible architecture to supercharge your report capabilities. First, I will explain how embedded and custom code options work. Next, I will show you how you can leverage custom code to author an advanced report with sales forecasting features. Read the full article here ...  

Read article

Supercharge your reports with custom code

Microsoft has just published my article “Microsoft Reporting Services in Action: Extending Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services with Custom Code“ on MSDN. Excerpted from my book Microsoft Reporting Services in Action, this article demonsrates how to implement advanced features in reports by integrating them with .NET assemblies.

Read article

Let’s talk RS

Please join me at the following events to learn more about Reporting Services:   Atlanta.net User Group presentation (ADNUG) on September 27th I will show you how to report-enable WinForm or web applications by integrating them with Reporting Services. Get a sneak preview of the new RS controls that will be included in the next 2005 release of Reporting Services. SQL Pass Community Summit 2004…

Read article