This is a quick start guide about how to use Barcode Professional for Reporting Services in most possible RDL (Report Definition Language) reporting scenarios.

Barcode Professional for Reporting Services was designed to be flexible and easy to use independently of the reporting scenarios you need to develop. Barcode Professional for Reporting Services will be used in different ways depending on your needs and reporting scenario. In all cases, the first thing you must determine is which reporting scenario you will be targeting on is.

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Shell MegaPack.Net 2008 recreates the entire Windows Explorer file & folder browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it completely mimics the Windows Explorer UI including Thumbnail, Detail & Group View, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming. Additionally, it features advanced functionality like item filtering, multiple-root nodes, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and allows customization of context menus, dragdrop, appearance, display names, icons, overlay icons and infotips. It is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which developers are currently limited to.

Also included is the ShellObjects set of components for creating quick launch-like appbars, displaying multiple MSN/Office2003 style popups, wizard UIs, animated tray icons, automatic form resizing, Vista-style task dialogs, system-wide hotkeys, task scheduler library, SingleInstanceComponent, shell file operations, system idle notifications and create and read shortcuts and internet shortcuts.

Shell MegaPack.Net is written in 100% C# managed code; It fully supports Visual Studio 2008 with Net 3.5/3.0 and Vista; it has a royalty-free redistribution license; it has no external dependencies and it comes with comprehensive documentation and numerous samples.

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Neodynamic is proud to announce the availability of Barcode Professional 5.0 for MS SQL Server Reporting Services; the Most Advanced Barcode Solution for Microsoft Report Server projects.
Neodynamic’s flagship barcoding product has expanded its capabilities to include additional barcode standards including Aztec Code (2D), Macro & Micro PDF417, ISBT 128, HIBC LIC & PAS Barcodes, VICS Bill of Lading (BOL) and VICS SCAC PRO; an improved PDF417 algorithm as well as enhancements on overall barcode generation performance.

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With the release of a new feature pack for Visual C++ 2008, developers can now write applications that feature the Office 2007 appearance, a Microsoft senior executive announced this week. At the same time, the company also discontinued support for its aging Visual Basic 6 integrated development environment, or IDE — to the dismay of some die-hard users.

“I am pleased to announce that the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has shipped,” S. Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said on his blog this week.

“The Feature Pack provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC [Microsoft Foundation Classes] and an implementation of TR1 [Technical Report 1],” the post said.

The MFC gives C++ users access to the Windows programming interfaces, while TR1 is a set of suggested additions to the International Organization for Standardization’s C++ standard. Using the newly added MFC components, “developers can create applications with the ‘look and feel’ of Microsoft’s most popular products — Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer,” his posting continued.

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LINQ To SQL is one of the most promising technologies that appeared lately in .NET programming. Since it became available developers using .Net have no need to mix code with SQL commands within the application to access database objects.

Now developers can access data in databases using programming language they get used to (C#, VB.NET). Moreover, using LINQ To SQL allows developer to uniformly manage all iterative data sources: databases, XML, various collections, etc. In addition you get code verification during compilation, full integration in Visual Studio which provides many advantages: IntelliSense, database model designer, auto generation of code by the model and so on.

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