Sunday, December 11, 2005
Introduction to Reporting Services Webcast Series On Demand
url-> http://blogs.msdn.com/gsnowman/archive/2005/10/19/482905.aspx
Six hours of presentations is just a survey of the product, but there are tons of demos, so I think developers will enjoy it. All the webcasts were rated either four stars out of five, or four and a half stars out of five, so someone must have liked them. Either that, or my strategy of hacking the survey site so only my mother could rate the webcast is looking pretty good.
Session One: Introduction. This webcast gives a flavor of the entire report lifecycle: report design, report management, and report delivery.
Session Two: Delivering reports. This webcast is about ways to get reports to users. I showed an ASP.NET application that integrates with a report by linking to a report URL, a Windows Forms application that called the web service to browse available reports and then displays the report in a browser, building standard and data-driven report subscriptions, and uaing the Windows Forms control from Visual Studio 2005.
Session Three: Report Builder. Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about ad hoc reports. How does a user create an ad hoc report? What does a developer have to do to make the database available to end users?
Session Four: Report Design. I build reports with tables. I build reports with matrices. I build reports with lists. I build reports with charts. I build reports that link to other reports.
Session Five: Extensibility. Our intrepid hero calls custom code from a report. He gets data from a web service. He does a directory of the file system using a custom data source. He even uses a third-party charting control for Reporting Services.
Session Six: Management and Security. We learn about SQL Server Management Studio, and see the security model for reporting services. We also see diagrams of a scale-out architecture for a high-capacity, fault tolerant, enterprise grade reporting solution.
Six hours of presentations is just a survey of the product, but there are tons of demos, so I think developers will enjoy it. All the webcasts were rated either four stars out of five, or four and a half stars out of five, so someone must have liked them. Either that, or my strategy of hacking the survey site so only my mother could rate the webcast is looking pretty good.
Session One: Introduction. This webcast gives a flavor of the entire report lifecycle: report design, report management, and report delivery.
Session Two: Delivering reports. This webcast is about ways to get reports to users. I showed an ASP.NET application that integrates with a report by linking to a report URL, a Windows Forms application that called the web service to browse available reports and then displays the report in a browser, building standard and data-driven report subscriptions, and uaing the Windows Forms control from Visual Studio 2005.
Session Three: Report Builder. Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about ad hoc reports. How does a user create an ad hoc report? What does a developer have to do to make the database available to end users?
Session Four: Report Design. I build reports with tables. I build reports with matrices. I build reports with lists. I build reports with charts. I build reports that link to other reports.
Session Five: Extensibility. Our intrepid hero calls custom code from a report. He gets data from a web service. He does a directory of the file system using a custom data source. He even uses a third-party charting control for Reporting Services.
Session Six: Management and Security. We learn about SQL Server Management Studio, and see the security model for reporting services. We also see diagrams of a scale-out architecture for a high-capacity, fault tolerant, enterprise grade reporting solution.
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