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Slide Deck and Demo on SharePoint + Silverlight

mca — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:30 +0000

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Sharepoint This is a quick post for my presentation slide and demos at SharePoint Pro Singapore User Group Meeting last week. I discussed about configuration on SharePoint box to make it Silverlight enabled, and also giving some demos to write Silverlight video player then deploy it to SharePoint. The PPT and demos are [...]

Presentation Slide at Singapore CTU 2008

mca — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:14:55 +0000

I presented at Community Technology Update 2008, organized by Microsoft Singapore DPE on November 22, 2008. It was a fantastic community event, a place when community members gathered together to share their passion on latest Microsoft Technologies. My first session at the morning was Web 2.0 Programming with Visual Studio 2008. I presented Web [...]

Easy Server Monitoring with PAL

mca — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:36:00 +0000

The first step in SQL Server performance tuning usually starts with finding bottleneck at the server side. It includes monitoring to some suspicious symptoms on CPU, Memory, Disk, and various SQL Server counter. Yes, Performance Monitor tool is already available on Windows machine. It is a very valuable tool for detecting the server bottleneck, and [...]

Free E-Learning with MSDN Ramp Up

mca — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:43:54 +0000

Microsoft released the Ramp Up initiative, the place where we can learn several emerging technologies such as VS 2008, SharePoint, and Silverlight. This is a free service, all we need is a Live account to start. It has collection of article, Webcast, demo code, and virtual lab running on Virtual Server. I signed up to [...]

Extract and Transfer RDL files from SSRS

mca — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:17:41 +0000

I was in the situation when I had to modify some reports, but I did not have the source code (RDL) files on hand. I tried to go to SSRS server, and looking for download or save-as menu. I was expecting there are some ways to download the report definition so I can modify it under Visual Studio. Unfortunately not, there is no built-in features in SSRS that for download or extract report from the server. Once deployed, it is there forever. I just thought to create small application using SSRS web services or API to extract the definition. But I was lucky enough that Jasper Smith created an amazing tool for this purpose.

Configuring SSRS 2005 on Vista and Win Server 2008

mca — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:37:30 +0000

I never think that this is a difficult or exceptional. I never configure it before, because my job does not really require to deploy such configuration. Someday in the morning, one student asked my this question: Why I cannot run Reporting Service 2005 on my Vista? This guy used Vista as his development machine and [...]

I passed SQL 2008 BI Beta Exam

mca — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:25:04 +0000

I took Beta exam no 70-448 last July, because I was curious how’s difficult it is. It is a Business Intelligence exam, a foundation for MCITP for SQL 2008 BI. I’ve touched SQL 2008 since it’s CTP 5 release so I’m quite familiar with the stuff. I sat almost 3 hours in the testing room, clicked [...]

Upgrade SQL 2000 to SQL 2008

mca — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:59:07 +0000

Upgrade from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 is now officially supported. In the early release of SQL 08 (currently is RC0), we are not sure whether there will be an upgrade path from SQL 2000 to SQL 08. This uncertainty was over when I was installing RC0 last night. The option to upgrade from SQL [...]

SharePoint Development for Dotnet-U

mca — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:29:21 +0000

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 [...]

Disable PDF Export in Reporting Services

mca — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:57:23 +0000

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.