Finally the new version of phdesign.com.au is live. Based on wordpress this site will hopefully be more active than it has been in the past. There are still areas to complete such as the portfolio section, but that shouldn’t be too far away. Now that I won’t be spending as much time on this site’s development perhaps I can focus more on phreplace, although I should spend some more time studying for my MCPD exams.
November 28th, 2009
The documentation for phreplace which was included as a .chm file in version 2.0 is now available online. While viewing the documentation use the menu on the right hand side to navigate.
The docs include information on getting support, troubleshooting and version history.
November 25th, 2009
Need to generate a pdf programmatically in dot net? You could purchase an HTML to PDF converter and worry about getting the page to format nicely for paper, or you could use the freely available ReportViewer control from Microsoft.
Microsoft offers SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with SQL Server 2005 and later editions to generate and publish reports using the Report Definition Language (RDL), as an alternative to Crystal Reports. SSRS requires a Report Server to publish reports to so they can be useful, however they also offer a ASP.Net or Windows Forms component called the ReportViewer which we can use in our code without the need for any SQL database to generate reports, and these reports can be saved as Excel files, PDF’s or images. Read the rest of this entry »
