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Monday, October 24, 2005 10:51 PM

Upcoming User Group Meetings

Here's a list of upcoming .NET user group meetings in my territory: PA, DE, MD, DC, VA and WV. Maryland Tuesday, November 1, Baltimore, MD Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals Clyde Barretto presents Building Custom Data Bound Windows Forms
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:43 PM

Creating Report Headers

I'm still answering questions from my recent webcast series . I got a question by e-mail from someone who is converting from Access and wants to add headers and footers to a report. Actually, there are several different places you can work with headers
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:33 PM

Virtual Labs

Folks who attended my webcast series and want some hands-on experience might want to check out one of the virtual labs for Reporting Services. These allow you to play with the product without having to install it on your machine. There are a couple of
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:41 PM

Introduction to Reporting Services Webcast Series On Demand

My webcast series on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is now available on demand. The ideal attendee for this series is someone who needs to develop reports, but hasn't used SQL Server Reporting Services before. In the series I assume that you've done
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:08 PM

Book Chapter

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 .
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:37 PM

RDL Will be Updated for SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

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
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:52 PM

Simple Walk Through of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services XML Data Source

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 Public pname
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:29 PM

Two Reporting Services Blogs

Here are two blogs that are really helpful for Reporting Services fans: Brian Welcker, Group Program Manager, Reporting Services Chris Hays, Architect, RDL
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:54 PM

Converting Crystal to Reporting Services

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 Consulting
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