RS 2005 RDL Available
In his blog, Brian Welcker (Group Program Manager for Reporting Services) announced yesterday the arrival of the much anticipated RDL 2005 specification.
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The code samples for my web seminar "Reporting Services 2005 Tips and Tricks" can be found here. They include: Using external images (URL and web service) Expression-based connection strings XML extension to render ADO.NET datasets streamed from a web service OLAP report from SSAS CLR stored procedure integration ASP.NET Handler to echo in the incoming URL and SOAP requests to the Report Server WinReporter demo…
Read articleNew Wave of Presentation Delivery – Web Seminars
Yesterday, I delivered a web seminar for WindowsITPro (sponsored by Microsoft) about RS 2005. I have to admit that I really enjoy it. I got more than 340 attendees. This broke my previous of record of 300 for my RS presentation at TechEd Europe 2004. The best thing about a web seminar is that you do it from the comfort of your house or office.…
Read articleSQL Server 2005 Documentation Refresh
Microsoft has released a refresh of the SQL Server 2005 documentation. On the same page, you will find also a link to a SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases download.
Read articleGreat Plains Report Pack
Microsoft has come up with a new Report Pack for Great Plains which uses SQL Server Reporting Services and comes with a number of report templates.
Read articleUsing SQL Reporting Services 2005 and Forms Authentication with the Whidbey/2.0 SQLMembershipProvider
As you probably know, when the RS Windows-based security doesn’t meet your requirements, you can replace it with custom security. Not many products out there allow you do this. In hist blog, Russell Christopher explains how you can use the Whidbey/2.0 SQLMembershipProvider with custom security.
Read articleKPIUtil Tool Released
Courtesy to the Marco Russo’s blog, I've learned that Microsoft released a KPIUtil tool for Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.The tool allows users to export KPIs from both a Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 server and a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services server.
Read articleMy Top 10 RS Wish List
In the spirit of the season, I compiled a list of the top 10 things that I would love Santa to implement in the next release of Reporting Services (although it may look like this won't happen next year :-). I purposely excluded enhancements to the RS data regions since it should be relatively easily to compile a list of the feature most folks complain…
Read articleApplied Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 is shipping
My book Applied Analysis Services 2005 is printed and shipped to the distributor. The paper copy can be purchased from the distributor website. Hopefully, it will make it to retailers (Amazon, B&N, etc.) by the month’s end. Happy data analyzing!
Read articleRS 2005 ASP.NET Report Viewer and Custom Assemblies
There was an interesting post on the Reporting Services public newsgroup about an issue with the RS 2005 ASP.NET Report Viewer and custom assemblies. In a nutshell, the issue was that if you want to invoke a custom assembly from the ASP.NET Report Viewer, you need to deploy it to GAC. Because of a bug in the RTM version, copying custom assemblies to the web…
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