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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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.

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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.”

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SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the Windows Desktop platform to support the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 and the ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools December 2007 CTP.

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 enables the following scenarios:

• Applications can work in terms of a more application-centric conceptual model, including types with inheritance, complex members, and relationships
• Applications are freed from hard-coded dependencies on a particular data engine or storage schema
• Mappings between the conceptual application model and the storage-specific schema can change without changing the application code
• Developers can work with a consistent application object model that can be mapped to various storage schemas, possibly implemented in different database management systems
• Multiple application models can be mapped to a single storage schema
• Language-integrated query support provides compile-time syntax validation for queries against a conceptual model

For more information please see the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Documentation and ADO.NET Entity Framework Samples

Post feedback and questions to SQL Server Compact 3.5 MSDN Forum and ADO.NET MSDN Forum

For tips and tricks visit SQL Server Compact blog and ADO.Net team blog

Download Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta for ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

This demo demonstrates how you can bind Barcode Professional to ADO.NET DataSet in WPF Applications. Barcode Professional for WPF supports both DataBinding model i.e. XAML declarative DataBinding syntax as well as binding in code. In this demo we’ll use both WPF DataBinding methods.

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Today, dataweb releases TurboDB Managed 1.4, the in-process database for true .NET applications. Version 1.4 adds stored procedures, user-defined functions and user-defined aggregates, which can be written either in SQL or in any .NET language.

TurboDB Managed is a fast in-process SQL database engine for applications, which require smooth deployment, royalty-free distribution and reliability. TurboDB is written completely in .NET code and therefore runs without any special access rights. Applications built with TurboDB can therefore also be downloaded from the Internet or execute from CD or DVC without installation.

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Scimore UAB, a developer of distributed/parallel high-performance RDBMS, today has announced partnership with SPAMfighter, Europe’s leading anti spam developer. ScimoreDB products enable Spamfighter to reduce cost and improve performance.

SPAMfighter has selected to include Scimore Embedded Database to anti spyware application that protects against spyware, adware, and other unwanted software.
“By upgrading to ScimoreDB, the speed of our product increased by 75%. Also, solely due to the features in ScimoreDB, we are now able to present customers with new features.”

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