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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:16 PM

Create Excel Files on the Fly

I hate throwing away code. Recently, we had a requirement to create an Excel spreadsheet with formulas and specific data for a particluar user. Of course we could always use Reporting Services to get the data in Excel format but then there would be no...
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:20 PM

MS ups the ante vs Google Maps

Microsoft has announced some updates to thier Windows Live Local service (I really hate that name). Then enhancements include real-time traffic reporting and new social sharing tools. Here are the highlights: Real-time traffic flow. Customizable driving...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:35 AM

Moving blog posts from MSN Spaces to Community Server 2.0

As I mentioned in my previous post I'm in the middle of moving a blog from MSN Spaces to my Community Server site. Of course there were some issues to resolve. You first need to turn on e-mail publishing for your MSN Spaces blog. You cannot use the...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:50 PM

MSN Spaces API...its almost there

I will be needing to migrate a MSN Spaces blog over to my Community Server site. I can't tell you what blog yet but it involves primates, colors and flames. Fortunately, Microsoft has made available the MetaWeblog API on MSN Spaces. They also have a decent...
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Monday, April 24, 2006 6:15 PM

How I moved my blog posts to Community Server 2.0

I see that you've found my new technical blog. Welcome. Just so you know I'm using Community Server 2.0 as the software for this blog. I have loaded all of the posts in the Tech category on my personal blog at www.jorriss.com on this site. To do this...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:32 PM

A little refresher is always good

Recently, I needed to create a list of items that were to be manually sorted by the user. I decided to use the sorting mechanism that Netflix uses in its queue. The items are listed 1 to n on the page with the sequence number in a text box. If the user...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:34 PM

Invalid_Viewstate_Client_Disconnected

While checking the logs at work I found this curious error “Invalid_Viewstate_Client_Disconnected”. After some research (i.e. Google) I found this knowledge base article Intermittent Invalid Viewstate Error in ASP.NET Web pages . Unfortunately...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:49 PM

DotNetNuke vs. Sharepoint

There is a good article available comparing DotNetNuke vs. Sharepoint . If you’re on the Sharepoint fence DNN might be a good alternative for you. Via Patrick Santry’s (aka wwwCoder) Blog . Now Playing: Speakers of Geek - CGS - Infinite Crisis...
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Friday, December 16, 2005 1:36 PM

Some JS links

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/Javascript_in_Usercontrol.asp http://www.quirksmode.org/js/options.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/clientsidescript.asp http://www.irt.org/articles/js019/index.htm http...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:08 PM

Converting ASP.Net 1.1 to ASP.Net 2.0

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...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:08 PM

SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack

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...
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Friday, November 11, 2005 1:07 PM

Analysis Services and Reporting Services

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...
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Monday, August 29, 2005 1:43 PM

Crystal Reports Sucks

Every once in a while I have to update one of our Crystal Reports that we have made available on the web. I really hate Crystal. It’s quirky, doesn’t work the way you expect and don’t get me started on the error reporting. While deploying...
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Monday, July 11, 2005 7:44 PM

DPAPI & encryption post

How to use the ASP.NET utility to encrypt credentials and session state connection strings More to come…
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 7:34 PM

ASP.Net custom controls, child events and pain

As you probably can tell I’ve been working on integrating Reporting Services within our ASP.Net website. A part of this integration is creating an ASP.Net custom control that will easily render a report from a page. Calling the Reporting Server...
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