Microsoft has just let me know that my proposal for a TechEd 2007 breakout session has been approved. I’ve been honored to present Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for four consecutive years at TechEd. This time, I will share practical lessons and tips harvested from report-enabling a real-life application. Here is the formal session description (not yet on the TechEd website):
One of the most prominent feature of Microsoft Reporting Services is its open and extensible architecture that allows developers to report-enable easily their custom applications. Join this “from-the-trenches” session to learn how we leveraged Microsoft Reporting Services 2005 and SQL Server 2005 to add ad-hoc reporting features to our line-of-business application. Topics covered include:
- Understanding the importance of the Report Definition Language (RDL)
- Building an RDL object model to abstract access to RDL
- Integrating the application middle tier with the Report Server web service
- Implementing flexible data retrieval with SQL Server 2005 CLR stored procedures
- Using the VS.NET 2005 Report Viewer control for report viewing
- Caching reports for better performance and historical analysis
- Securing access to the report catalog with Windows and basic security
- Extending reports with custom code
See you in Orlando!
Teo,
I’m pleased to hear you are presenting at Teched. There should be several of us at your presentation from Mary Kay. We have a half dozen copies of your book being shared between us as we work on a fairly large SSAS 2005 Datamart this year. Your book is great. Your very honest discussion of SSAS has been invaluable to us. I look forward to meeting you.
Jim Quinn (jquinn)
Technology Leader
Mary Kay, Inc.
Thank you. I’d love to see your comment about my book on Amazon. Looking forward to seeing you at TechEd too.