(scott) If you want to build your own UI front end to SQL Server Reporting Services, one web method you’ll need to become familiar with is GetReportParameters. GetReportParameters will return metadata about the parameters in a report, including names, types, and valid values.
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Take Total Control Of Your Networking With .NET And UDP
(Yaniv Pessach) You’ve probably made use of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in your applications at some point, whether directly or indirectly—after all, HTTP runs on top of TCP, so every Web application is built atop it. But maybe you’ve wondered whether its brother User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Flattening Data into a List in SQL Server
(Paul Litwin) Normalization to 3rd normal form (or higher) is a good thing. For example, in the pubs database, in order to model the fact that a given author can write more than one book, and that a given book can have multiple authors, you have to model the many-to-many relationship between author
Oracle Grouping with the ROLLUP Operation
(James Koopmann) Grouping and in particular gathering aggregates across groups often brings confusion to many practitioners. This does not need to be the case if approached from a systematic fashion. This article will approach gathering aggregates from a simple GROUP BY operation and then extend
(Un)common but potentially mind-twisting DB2 issues
(Dan Scott) It is perhaps a sad reflection on my life that I’m using a personal blog to offer technical information about a product that I work on, rather than telling you about what I ate last night (spinach and goat cheese salad with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, quinoa, and a rather tomatoey
Using MySQL with .NET
(cardinals33) Ever wanted to combine the power and ease of the .NET platform with a free database like MySQL? Well thanks to ODBC database functions in ADO.NET it’s really easy. All you need is the latest drivers for ADO.NET and MySQL installed. For this tutorial we will use C# to build a simple app
All Aboard AJAX, HTML Canvas, and the Supertrain
(Dave Hoover) Apple’s Safari browser introduced the canvas HTML element, allowing web developers to create two-dimensional drawings using a simple JavaScript API. With the recent release of Firefox 1.5, canvas took a significant step toward the mainstream (canvas is currently being considered for in
A Visual Studio Add-In That Converts C# Code To Visual Basic
(Scott Swigart) The “Paste as…” functionality in applications like Microsoft Word has become indispensable for me. I often copy something from the Web and want to paste it into a document without all of the HTML formatting. Paste as is the tool for the job.
Automate SQL injection testing
(Kevin Beaver) SQL injection is a security exploit in which the attacker adds SQL code to a Web form input box to gain access. Manual testing for SQL injection — as described in this tip and this paper — used to be the only way to determine if your database was vulnerable. Rooting through returned
Weaving WebSphere: Oh, Domino!
(Joe Pluta) It’s that time of the year: New Year’s resolutions are made and thoughts of change swirl through our minds (although for those of us with little ones, change is more likely changing diapers, but I digress).