Feeding Reports by Code
In a previous blog, I introduced one of the new SSRS 2008 R2 feature: reports as data feeds. As I said, the R2 release will include a new Atom Data […]
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Remembering Report Parameters
Scenario: You want to let end users view a report in Report Manager or SharePoint and “remember” the report parameter selection. You find that you cannot just tell the users […]
Product Release Galore
Microsoft announced release dates for SQL Server R2, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, and Visual Studio 2010. According to the Microsoft SQL Server Team Blog: SQL Server 2008 R2 (aka SQL […]
Chasing Parameters
Scenario: You use the Visual Studio ASP.NET ReportViewer and you can’t figure out how to get the parameter values when the page posts back. I couldn’t find a straightforward answer […]
BIDS Integration Story in R2 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
There was a huge discussion thread about the BIDS-Visual Studio integration story in the SQL Server 2008 timeframe where customers complained that BIDS got married with Visual Studio. This required […]
Where is RDLOM in R2?
After covering the cool new stuff in R2, it’s time to talk about the uncool. One R2 change that really vexes me is RDLOM. RDLOM, short for Report Definition Language […]
How Windows UAC Got Me Again
User Access Control (UAC) is a feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 that prevents you from running applications with administrator rights even if you are a […]
New Reporting Services Data Providers
Two new data providers will be included in the SQL Server 2008 R2 release of Reporting Services, Microsoft SQL Azure and Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, that will let […]
Beware Hidden Calculated Members
Here is another one of those “by design” issues (see the Not All Calculated Members Are Born Equal blog for another recent gotcha) that are not documented but can sure […]
Report Builder 3.0 Edit Sessions
When Report Builder 2.0 shipped , it introduced local and server preview modes. If the report uses local references only, such an embedded data source(s), Report Builder 2.0 executes the […]
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