November 2005 Entries
Here’s an interesting article on the ten rules for web startups. Is it easier now to start a web company than ever before? Yup! But the key is in the idea. If the idea sucks the site will too.Now Playing: Third Day - King of Glory
Microsoft has released a Step-By-Step guide on how to upgrade your Visual Studio 2002/2003 ASP.Net projects to Visual Studio 2005. I'll probably be tackling this sometime soon so I'll keep everyone posted on some of the problems that I encounter. Check out this quote from the doc:
If the application you are converting is of reasonable size and has several Web projects and additional projects, such as class libraries, in a single Visual Studio solution, it is possible to encounter issues during migration. Be prepared to spend the better part of a day completing the entire process. The steps and guidance provided...
Microsoft has created a set of SQL Server Add-ons called a "Feature Pack" for SQL Server 2005. This set of tools includes ADOMD.NET, an API for working with Analysis Services as well as a command line query utility. It also features datamining viewer controls, the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver, and a data provider for SAP.
The complete list of contents for the Feature Pack is:
Microsoft ADOMD.NET
Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 PivotTable Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer...
Over the past few months I’ve been working on the report from hell. It just about does everything you could imagine but press your shirts. One of the biggest problems we’ve had to deal with is the amount of data that needs to be processed on the fly to produce the report. After version one of the report shipped we decided to investigate different ways to access the data. That’s when we found this article on Integrating Analysis Services with Reporting Services. It covers how to use OLAP with reporting services. Our prototype worked like a champ and now we’re...