I found an interesting post on Deborah's Developer MindScape   ( via Greg’s blog )and wanted to share a modification of the technique that can simplify the use of Office object models in C# and VB. I use this heavily in my VisioAutomation library...

In this post we are going to learn how to make reports that have links in them. As always, I start with some sample data. In this case, it will be a list of my favorite blogs.   START WITH THE DATA First, I create a new Data Method   This is...

One of my side-projects requires me to build some of my own tools. In this case: a code generation tool. In a future post, I’ll describe the tool and provide its source, but for now I did want to share some of what I discovered on the way. First, the...

Not a provocative title for this blog post, but it is what it is. This week I needed to programmatically generate from C# from the list of sections, rows, cells, etc in Visio. My first discovery is that this information doesn’t already exist in a single...

In my last post I took a detour from the Data Method topic and explored how to put bitmaps into reports. This post is going I’ll merge the two topics – instead of embedding and image or retrieving it from another source we are going to build a report...

Up until now I’ve been talking about data and code that generates it with Data Methods . In this post, I’ll show you how to put images into your reports. First let’s get an image.  I found one of the sample Windows 7 pictures and made it smaller...

I’ve been looking forward to sharing this post for a while. I am going to show exactly how to get a column chart in SSRS using Dynamics AX 2009. I’m going to go step-by-step and show you “gotchas” you will encounter as you develop charts. Although this...