Archive for February, 2010

.NET Transactions pros and cons

In my experience I have seen a tremendous conflict between developers in the use of transactions. The argument here is whether the transactions should be used from the .NET code or should be a part of the procedure. Many developers who are very good in writing stored procedures feel very uncomfortable if they do not see a [...]

SSRS Template Creation

This topic covers on How to create a report template and reuse it: Create a Report Project Solution. In your existing Report Solution create a New Report. Set Height, Width and Page properties. You can do this by going to Report->Report Properties Set page orientation, Add Page Header and Page Footer and save report (.rdl [...]

Clickonce an alternate to ActiveX

I have been writing ActiveX code for a very long time. When I first started using it I was delighted to see how easy it is to access any clients computer. If a website page uses ActiveX then the only prompt that goes to the client is that this particular website that you are trying to access uses ActiveX [...]