I’m currently studying for the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation (70-536) exam, using the Microsoft Press Training Kit and I am appalled at the number of errors, both editorial and technical, in this book. There are whole paragraphs that have been taken out of one chapter and used as a place holder in another chapter then never changed, at one stage I was very confused when the book was talking about two different classes that seemed to do the same thing, only to find that they were the same class, it’s name had just be written wrong in places, arrggg. Read the rest of this entry »
January 11th, 2010
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 »
