Mike Diehl's WebLog
Much aBlog about nothing...
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Report rendering engines
I'm investigating reporting options.
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SQL Reporting Services - Expression language?
I'm starting to use SQL Reporting Services. I've got some textboxes that I want to format nicely for an address, for example.
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Microsoft Security slide deck
From Dana Epp...
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Smart Client Offline Application Block
It appears that Microsoft has published the Smart Client Offline Application Block, even though the Patterns and Practices Group says it is “Coming Soon“. The block itself is available for download here.
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Syntax and semantics
A great article by Eric Lippert on understanding programming languages - and the difference between syntax and semantics.
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RAIL
RAIL is the Runtime Assembly Instrumentation Library, which is a project from the University of Coimbra, and which implements “an API that allows CLR assemblies to be manipulated and instrumented before they are loaded and executed.”
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OleDbCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters
If you use a JET data provider, this method throws an exception saying that the underlying provider does not support this method.
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Questions about Rory...
Some have wondered aloud if Rory is gay.
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Teach yourself programming in...how long?
Great article here - the premise is that all the “Teach yourself [something] in 21 days“ books which have proliferated in the past 10 years are all bogus. In fact, most skills (not just programming) take about 10 years to master.
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Single Sign-on enterprise Security for Web Applications
This new article by Paul Sheriff discusses a framework that allows both internal Intranet users to be authenticated to a web site using Windows Authentication, and external users (clients or customers or B2B or whatever) to be authenticated using Forms authentication.