This entry starts by looking at the new features in Windows Forms 2.0, and then proceeds to describe the migration strategy for existing Windows Forms 1.0 applications that are to be migrated to .NET Framework 2.0. New Windows Forms Controls We...

Creating Reports Reporting Services is built on SQL Server 2000, and the metadata definitions are stored in a database. On top of that, the Report Server contains a web service and a Windows service. The web service provides the interface into the system...

MSBuild is the new build system in Visual Studio 2005. It has been built from the ground up in managed code, with scalability, performance and extensibility as core goals. When designing MSBuild, the development team had several different customer...

Data Mining is about exploring your data, finding patterns and performing predictions. Where querying and analysis tells you what , data mining tells you why and how. In SQL Server 2005, data mining is made accessible and easy to use through an integrated...

The Excel add-in is one of two just released Business Intelligence solutions available for download: Excel Add-in for Analysis Services: http://www.microsoft.com/office/solutions/exceladdin Business Scorecards Accelerator: http://www.microsoft...

Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) is a new solution that provides a standardised way for developers to integrate a company data-centric application into Office. IBF includes a means of specifying business entities and relationships between those...

I've had a couple of weeks' silence on the blog, for which I apologise. TechEd was such a full-on experience that it took me a full week's vacation to recover! Overall, we were delighted with the success of the conference. I've browsed through the...

It's great to visit TechEd Bloggers and discover new bloggers who are writing interesting articles about the event. As an organiser, there's no better way to get the vibe of the event from the floor than to read what others have been up to and the good...

If you're interested in finding out more about Visual Studio 2005, we're running two developer events at Microsoft UK in Reading over the next month that will explore the key new features and enhancements in the next release of our developer tools. We...

This week I'm in the US again, attending an internal conference for sales, marketing and technical staff. It's our kick-off meeting for the start of the new financial year, in which we look back on last year and set our direction for the coming twelve...