Monthly Archives: February 2012

Solution: Linked Reports in SSRS Print with Incorrect Size or Orientation

By Michael Gerety | February 29, 2012

Overview
When deploying reports to an SSRS server, the server creates a record in the Catalog table.  this table holds the report location, the binary data for the report, as well as parameter and property information, among other things.  On deployment, various report properties are extracted and added to the Properties column of the Categories table [...]

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WCF Data Services vs. WCF RIA Services – Making the Right Choice

By Lenni Lobel | February 19, 2012

In .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides all the support you need to build distributed service-oriented data access solutions. You can certainly work with WCF directly to create custom services and expose data from an Entity Data Model (EDM) with the ADO.NET Entity Framework, or from any other data access layer (DAL) of your choosing. [...]

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ScrumDashboard V3 in TFS 2010 with SharePoint 2010

By Michael Gerety | February 16, 2012

A few of our teams have been using the EMC (formerly Conchango) Scrum for Team System process template for TFS.  We’re doing a migration at a client over to TFS 2010 from TFS 2008, and were attempting to move to the newest version of the process template along with it. 
Project Portal Problems
TFS 2010 ships [...]

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How Significant is the SQL Server 2012 Release?

By Lenni Lobel | February 5, 2012

SQL Server, particularly its relational database engine, matured quite some time ago. So the “significance” of every new release over recent years can be viewed—in some ways—as relatively nominal. The last watershed release of the product was actually SQL Server 2005, which was when the relational engine (that, for years, defined SQL Server) stopped occupying [...]

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Automatically log errors with Elmah in ScriptService-WebService calls

By Karl Schwirz | February 3, 2012

If you’ve used Elmah logging in the past then you know it’s a very useful and easy to set up tool in your web applications.  However, when we encounter errors in web services we sometimes do not get the desired logging into the xml file or database, depending on how you have Elmah configured.  This [...]

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Two more tools for your bag of T-SQL tricks

By gwilliams | February 1, 2012

Have you ever been writing a new view and had the need to use an ORDER BY only to be greeted by an error message when you go to create the view. Never fear, there is a solution. ORDER BY can only be used in views, inline functions, derived tables, sub-queries, and common table [...]

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