Microsoft Bob

A Wrapper for Running SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Reports Anonymously

With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft re-architected SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to no longer have an IIS dependency. It now relies directly on HTTP.SYS and handles web protocols independently. This is a good thing, in a lot of respects (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630410.aspx

Fun with Enums and a Generic File Date/Time Stamper

Time for a break from SQL stuff for a little .NET.  Have you ever wanted to use the integer value of an ENUM instead of the actual Enum Value?  For example, here is an enum I created to map datetime formats. public enum FileDatePrecision { Day

Software writing software

My academic research relates to software automation – for me that means code writing code.  Most code generators today are pretty stupid, though.  My hypothesis is basically that software should be able to learn from experience so that it can

Welcome Back, again...

After a false start a couple months back, I'm determined to get more involved in the community and start blogging daily and not let all the distractions get me away from this. My background includes over 22 years in software development. I am currently