Visual Basic and .Net News and Resources
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.
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.
Aspose.Words for Reporting Services is a rendering extension for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services (32 bit & 64 bit). It allows you to export your RDL reports to flow layout documents and provides comprehensive support for exporting them to DOCX, DOC, RTF and WordprocessingML formats.
All RDL report features including tables, report columns, matrices, charts, textboxes, lists and images are converted with the highest degree of precision to Microsoft Word documents.
Russia, Barnaul, February 19, 2008 – Perpetuum Software LLC announced the release of Database Restyle – Application, a comprehensive solution that allows automatic comparison and synchronization of database structures. This new product is designed to provide developers and DBAs with effective and effortless database structure comparison and, thus, to make their work much easier and save them plenty of time and effort.
While Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.Microsoft said it is moving quickly to release the APIs and other documentation of Vista, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
As word of Microsoft’s announcement spread last night in New York during the local NYC.NET Developer Group meeting, attendees applauded the company’s moves.
“I think it’s going to go a long way, I hope so,” said Michelle Cmorey, division director for application development services at Robert Half International, during opening remarks at the meeting. “I think it makes Microsoft’s products more marketable, and I think that it makes your skills more marketable as well.”
Read the rest at news source ENT News.
New Database Synchronization Tool Helps SQL Developers and DBAs Keep Databases in Sync
Russia, Barnaul, February 14, 2008 – Perpetuum Software LLC today announced Database Restyle – Library 1.5, a new version of reliable and powerful database synchronization tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The new offering is designed to help SQL developers and database administrators more quickly and cost-effectively compare and synchronize databases of WinForms, ASP.NET, Console, and WPF applications.