Blogs @ IRM

I had some really frustrating hours with the new version of the Reporting Services Report Web Viewer today. We are using local reports, which we actually create dynamically (subject of another post), but we couldn’t get them to be showed by the Report Web Viewer. We started to seek the problem way off, because we of course assumed that the problem ...

I needed to create a report that should be used for printing labels, but this kind of layouts is not supported easily in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005. The reason for this is that when Microsoft created Reporting Services they did a design descision that they wanted to support webb and many other export formats, but this also limited some ...

SP2 is now available here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/servicepacks/sp2.mspx

I think the time has come when we should stop produce reports in SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Reports and other reporting products. Now I believe is the right time for us as developers to start using Microsoft Office much more. With the soon upcoming second release of VSTO for Visual Studio 2005, many of the limitations is ...

Back in February I blogged about MSBuild Community Tasks Project. Today I ran into a post by Buck Hodges with links to more tasks created by the community. One of the most interesting ones can be found on codeproject.com and contains tasks for running SQL scripts with the help of OSQL.exe and also an encapsulation of RS.exe to deploy SQL Server ...

I've been using Reporting Services in a couple of projects and I like it many ways, but the product is not complete in it's functionality. One problem that we got stuck with for a while was that it is not possible to use Fields (data from data sources) in the Page Header. This is a big problem if you do things like invoices for example and I see ...

Last week, we upgraded a smaller Reporting Services project from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. It went without any problems and actually also solved a couple of issues we had with the old version. One nice new feature that we immediately used was the possibility to hide the prompting of some of the parameters. Another small enhancement that ...

Yesterday afternoon Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for download at MSDN. This is not yet another release. It's a big one. It will (hopefully) change how we develop applications. SQL Server is an important part of it of course with it's new possibilities for handling XML, hosting CLR and exposing Web Services (and more). ...

Ever since I started to blog, I have been thinking that I should write something about Reporting Services. My thoughts with this blog is to write about stuff I do at work and lately I've been working with Reporting Services, but I haven't been able to think anything out worth writing about. The last couple of days I've been thinking about why I ...