Archive for April, 2008
I did a posting about DotnetU last year, a program where I taught at Teched SEA 2007. I just know that there is a new material under DotnetU umbrella: SharePoint Development. Thanks to Dougturn who spread this program around the world.
The SharePoint content is very suitable for somebody new in MOSS development. Covering the installation, new feature, and web part programming. But I think Doug should add one more hot topic in SharePoint: custom workflow with VS2005/2008. I’m willing to help him to write the lab manual, since I’ve been developing and teaching in this area almost one year.
Just received message from Doug that the cool DotnetU will come again to Teched SEA 2008 next August. Hopefully he’s right, lots of cool stuff in Silverlight and Ajax can be explored. It’s free, fun, with a nice certificate and T-Shirt 
. I’m the supporter the SharePoint related material for dotnetu. Hope he will bring it to KL. SharePoint has abig growth here in Singapore, and I think is the same in Malaysia. MOSS workflow is a very hot - hot topics now.
April 23rd, 2008
One of my student came with a popup question: how do we disable the export to PDF feature in reporting services? Well, I should say that export to PDF is awesome. But some company don’t allow their employee to do that, or maybe they want to disable export to XML as well.
There are several option to do that. On the report level, we can utilize the query string to inject the parameter, and disable the parameter and export bar on top. Another elegant method is jump to the configuration file of the Reporting Services installation, and comment ot the PDF rendering extension.
Open the rsreportserver.config xml file with any editor of your choice. This file is located under ReportServer folder of the SSRS installation. Here is the capture:
If you’re not sure where is the file located, go to the IIS console and read the home directory of the ReportServer virtual directory.
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One of the FAQ that I received when teaching SharePoint Development class is: What’s the best book on SharePoint development? Well, It can be easy and difficult at once. SharePoint is a very huge product with tons of feature inside. Every book has their own approach, and some of them only cover specific topics in development. SharePoint can be used for content management, record management, BI dashboard, business process automation, workflow, and so on. Finally, there is no single book that able to cover all of those features.
I red some SharePoint development books, and here is the quick review on it. Take it as a consideration, not the recommendation. Here are the lists:
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