There's a book chapter that covers architecture and new features of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on the web. You can find it here .

Another question I was asked today was whether we will publish a new version of the RDL specification when 2005 ships. The answer is yes. Although the concepts are the same, there have been some detailed changes and we will publish a new version of the...

A cool new feature of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is that you can report on XML data. These are the steps in the demo I did today: Create a new web service. Add a public class called product to the web service: Public Class Product...

Here are two blogs that are really helpful for Reporting Services fans: Brian Welcker, Group Program Manager, Reporting Services Chris Hays, Architect, RDL

Perhaps the most-asked question when I talk about Reporting Services is "I'm using Crystal Reports. How do I migrate existing reports to Reporting Services?" Microsoft doesn't sell a tool to do this conversion. I'm aware of three services: Hitachi...

Brian Noyes, my favorite fighter pilot turned .NET guru, is teaching an Advanced .NET Master Class at the Microsoft Office in Reston, VA from October 17th - October 21st. Attendees will learn not only advanced .NET and system programming, but also relevant...

The .NET Rocks! team is coming to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Carl, Richard, and crew are taking it on the road! If you've listened to Carl and the gang, you'll want to see them in person. It's way more satisfying to throw rotten tomatoes when...

Every time some software engineer says “Nobody will go to the trouble of doing that,” there’s some kid in Finland who will go to the trouble. Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. Kevin Mitnick is a criminal , and if you want to flame me for...

A list of upcoming user groups in MD, VA, and PA...

We'll be spending the October-December quarter doing launch events. By the way, Microsofties call that the "second quarter." Part of the being assimilated into Microsoft is learning the only year that matters is the fiscal year from July until June. The...

I have the draft MSDN Event schedule for the first half of 2006. I don't know if I will be covering all these events personally, but these are the events in PA, DE, MD, DC, VA, and NC: January 31, Roanoke, VA February 2, "Washington, DC" * ...

Jochen Seemann Vision: Support visual domain-specific languages (DSLs) that are specific to a problem. Imagine writing a Word doc describing a house, then giving it to a builder. You would get all the same problems that affect software projects...

Once again, here are some very rough notes on the general session that just ended, typed in real time. Bob Muglia Trends on server. 2005 - Windows Server 2003 R2 2006 – Monad, WinFX, Windows Compute Cluster 2007 - Longhorn Server...

Once again, here are some very rough notes on the general session that just ended, typed in real time. If I have time later, I may do an edit pass. Eric Rudder Thanks everyone for coming. Announcing Windows Workflows Foundation (WWF), supports...