August 2004 - Grant Killian's Blog

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Impressed by Reporting Services

I spent the last week in Colorado and took advantage of the airplane time to explore SQL Server Reporting Services. I'm very impressed. To make the most of my experimentation time, I picked up a book by Brian Larson entitled SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services published by Osborne -- I chose his book...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2004 6:56 PM by grant.killian
Customers continue to surprise me

Had a quick scare today when a customer called complaining that “The Word Program” was crashing; we had delivered an application that used web services and word interop to do some nifty web screen scraping and Word mail merging just a few months earlier. Something was up. After further conversations...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2004 9:16 AM by grant.killian
Free .Net hosting

A colleague just pointed out this resource for free .Net hosting for a year , no strings attached. I can't personally vouch for it but it looks like a darn good deal. Those early days of rapant free .Net hosting, circa 2002, are long gone!

Published Mon, Aug 16 2004 8:38 AM by grant.killian
Reporting Services thanks to Reggie

I know Crystal Reports is no peach to work with, but I've been fighting with Microsoft's report offering, SQL Report Services, today. I had lots of trouble getting to install on my Win 2003 server (laptop). Turns out it didn't like the VS.Net 2005 Beta -- specifically the .Net Framework 2.0 I was running...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2004 3:42 PM by grant.killian