Integrating Reporting Services Using SOAP

Want to programmatically access your Sql Server Reporting Services Server? (SSRS) Turns out there’s an app for that! Or more precisely, a SOAP web service.
The Reporting Services SOAP API provides several Web service endpoints for developing custom reporting solutions. The endpoints currently fall into two categories: management and execution. The management functionality is exposed through [...]

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Implementing Team System and ROI – .NET Rocks!

Caught an even better than average podcast from .NET Rocks!, this time regarding Team System. Steven covered a lot of material, but I found his discussion around the need for deliberate planning to be particularly useful, as well as his outline of why investing time and resources in TFS is worthwhile. At the end of [...]

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SQL Server Reporting Services Hits its Stride – CODE Magazine

I’ve used SSRS multiple times in the past and know of at least one instance where I’ll be using it again in the future so I was quite pleased to stumble upon Paul Litwin’s recent article regarding the current state of SSRS.
We’ve all heard that version 3 of a Microsoft product is when that product [...]

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Like most applications, a database plays a critical role in what I’m working on. Fortunately, two higher-end versions of Visual Studio are supposed to provide a Microsoft security blanket for developing a database, managing and tracking changes to a database, and deploying those changes. (Among other things)
http://www.vitalygorn.com/blog/post/2008/01/Handling-Database-easily-with-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx
Unfortunately, Microsoft left the security blanket for getting these [...]

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