Choirul at the .Net Land

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.

The Best Books on SharePoint 2007 Development

MCA — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:39:31 +0000

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:

Live Writer goes release and still free

MCA — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:45:29 +0000

When I was installing my machine with vista, I installed Windows Live Writer as well. I was quite surprise when started a blog post, and It asked me to update to release version. Yes, the live writer that I had is beta, and now this guy was released already. And the best of all, it’s [...]

New Domain, and alive

MCA — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:23:42 +0000

My lovely choirulamri.or.id was expired on last December 2007. I didn’t have a chance to renew this Indonesian second level domain, because I’m working at Singapore now. The domain management system is not fully automated like other international domain provider, so renewal process was a bit headache for me. The problem became worst because the [...]

SQL 2005 Data Encryption

MCA — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:05:30 +0000

One of the cool feature of SQL Server 2005 is out of the box data encryption capability. Not like SQL Server 2000 that requires 3rd party support or creating your own custom script, SQL05 comes with built in function to do that. It supports both symmetric and asymmetric encryption, as well as hashing. I created a [...]

MVP for the 3rd Year and Kicking..

MCA — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:49:11 +0000

I just received an email from Microsoft 3 days ago, stated that I’m awarded as an MVP again. This is my 3rd year renewal, thanks! Dear Muhammad Amri, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting [...]

Teched HOL: Wait More, Learn Less

MCA — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:23:46 +0000

Hands On Lab is one of the most wanted facilities at TechEd SEA. This is not instructor led lab, it’s a do it yourself lab completed with the step by step manual, PC with pre-loaded VPC images that contains the lab files. Ed Quek full filled his promise to provide more computer in the HOL and [...]

Dotnet University: Rocks!

MCA — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:45:47 +0000

One of the new features at TechEd SEA this year is Dotnet University that was held on Sept 11-14, 2007. As I mentioned at my 6 things I love about TechEd, this is an Instructor Led Lab (ILL) that focusing on .Net 3.0. It's all about Windows Workflow, WPF, WCF, and Cardspace. The response from the attendees were overwhelming. They started to queue since 1 hour before every session. All available sessions are fully packed, even though the organizer managed to provide 5 sessions in a day.

Actually the lab materials were not so deep. It gave an overview about 4 components in .NET 3.0, at level 200 from 500 scale. The public curiosity about this new framework is very high, that's why the response was terrific. I hope the difficulties level will be improved at the next year since the adoption of .Net 3.0 going to be better.

I delivered the Workflow Foundation session at last class of the 3rd day (17.30 - 19.30). It was also fully packed, so my guess that the attendees prefer to go home was wrong. I did some demo with IF-ELSE branching and Code Activity, using Workflow designer for authoring workflow. Mark Dunn helped me a lot to handle the discussions at the QA session.