July 2005 - Posts
I played around with Registration-Free COM for quite a while before I truly grokked it. Today, I ran across these Walk Through style articles on MSDN by Steve White that do a good job of explaining the basics in a step-by-step manner:
Registration-Free Activation of .NET-Based Components: A Walkthrough
Registration-Free Activation of COM Components: A Walkthrough
Also, it looks like he has another one in the works titled "Registration-Free COM in Web Applications: A Walkthrough".
I just discovered the "IndieGameDev" blog on tucows.com. Being a frequent indie-game developer wannabe, I dig the concept of this blog and love the cool retro icons!
After spelunking its posting archives, I'm quite impressed with the vast amount of information available. Many genre, programming languages, and topics are covered with depth and humor - not to mention quite a few useful links. Definitely something worthwhile to checkout if you have an interest in game development.
I have a handy-dandy Google Alert setup with the keywords "Sql Reporting Services Download" that paid dividends this week in the form of 2 excellent links!
The first is Marco Russo's blog titled "SQL BI" which contains practical tips and information on Sql Server 2000, 2005, Analysis Server, Reporting Services, and other Business Intelligence topics.
The second is a SWEET tool by Jasper Smith called Reporting Services Scriptor for administering and generating scripts for Sql Server 2000 Reporting Services. Note: Marco had a link to this tool too - he rocks!
Anyways, even if you don't care about BI or SQL2kRS, you should at least play around with Google Alerts, because they are a huge time saver for keeping up with what's up in blogland and beyond.
It appears that we beta-testers didnt do too great a job evaluating Service Pack 2 for Sql Server 2000 Reporting Services (Sql2kRS). There are numerous bugs that have been annoying the early adopters which led MS to publish a Service Pack for their Service Pack. Actually, they call these "Hotfixes" since they typically take far less time to produce than the original service pack (and hopefully contain fewer bugs).
Here is a quick rundown of the fixes (paraphrased a bit):
- Re-add support for the omitted <HTMLViewerStyleSheet> tag which allows you to "skin" the HTML Report rendering output via CSS.
- Re-fixed MHTML rendering re-broken during SP-2. This mostly affected those who scheduled report subscriptions that rendered in HTML and were delivered via email.
- Fixed misc subscription scheduling bugs.
- Fixed some specific CSV rendering bugs.
Anywho....checkout the the KB article for more/better details or just go download the Hotfix and try it out yourself!
Enjoy...
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