December 2007 - Posts

Is this Bit of Cleverness Necessary?
31 December 07 02:11 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

To Begin With In my last post I mentioned five different ways to make machine-generated and human-generated code peacefully co-exist with each other. I promised to expand on each of these techniques. Before I do that I want to at least ask the question, Read More...

Getting Custom Code to Play Nice with Generated Code
20 December 07 02:14 PM | jons | 1 Comments   

On one of our internal mailing lists here at Magenic, one of our consultants posted a question about code generation (for a CSLA project as it turns out). The specific issue was how best to separate the machine-generated code from the human-generated Read More...

Reporting Services Configuration Christmas List
18 December 07 02:51 PM | jons | 1 Comments   

In my last post I ranted about the pitiful configuration capabilities of Report Services as it pertained to pointing at a data source. I actually have some thoughts on what should be done to fix the problem. I would have included them but that post was Read More...

Reporting Services Security Tidbits
18 December 07 12:44 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

I have been trying to understand the Reporting Services security model.  Based upon my research with RS 2000, here is how the user name and group values are treated (RS 2005 is said to follow the same model pretty closely): The value you enter must Read More...

Ranting and Raving about Reporting Services Configuration
17 December 07 11:53 AM | jons | 1 Comments   

As noted in earlier posts, I have been working with Reporting Services in SQL Server 2000. I am not a great fan of reporting packages; I have tried to avoid them whenever I could. I mention that background because I am going to get cranky about Reporting Read More...

More on Reporting Services: Fun with Rectangles
11 December 07 01:12 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

I have been working on this fairly complex report for a client using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. I wanted to capture some of the lessons that I have picked up along the way. You never know in my line of work when these lessons can come back to Read More...

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Bug?: Rectangle Visibility
03 December 07 11:33 AM | jons | (Comments Off)   

For the last couple of weeks I have been building a SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report for a client. The input to the report is a series of rows from the database. Each row could have two different types of data; for this blog I will call the two Read More...