Microsoft Products with other software

Enterprises use products from disparate vendors based on their business needs; chronological evolution of their business; plain necessity and for any number of other reasons. Hence there are always occasions that they will be looking beyond a single vendor or product. I have been looking at how Microsoft products mesh with other vendor products with the view of helping to provide some help by writing about my experiences which I list here. It is possible that the list is not complete.

Report authoring articles

Here are links to some of the older report authoring articles excluding the articles on data access pages

Generating and Hosting a SQL Server Reporting 

Creating an MS Access 2003 Front End for an 

Creating a Crosstab Report in Visual Studio 2005 Using Crystal Reports 

ASP.NET and SQL 2000 Reporting Services

On Importing an Access Parametric Report into SQL 2000 Reporting Services

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services: Creating a report from scratch

Building a Multi-table Report with SQL 2005 Reporting Services

Creating a Chart with SQL 2000 Reporting Services

Crystal Report from OLAP Data  

Generating a Simple Crystal Report using VS 2005

Generating a Multiple Table Crystal Report using VS 2005


Developing Applications on Oracle 10g XE: Generating a Report

Creating a Simple Report with Visual Studio 2008

Links to SQL Server 2008 and SSRS 2008 can be found on this blog by searching with the keyword 'Report'

Links to my articles on Web Services

Here is a collection of my articles on web services that you may want to review:

Web Services and SOA will be future trends in business IT get a Jump start on them !!!

Web Service Calling with VB 6.0:

Calling a Web Service using VB6 with SOAP 3.0

Cold Fusion related:

Creating a VB.NET Client for a ColdFusion Web Service

Creating a Web Service with ColdFusion: the Basics

ColdFusion WS Consumer for a WS Created in VS2003

Using Web Matrix:

Creating a Web Service with Web Matrix

Consuming a Service Created with Web Matrix


On Web Services Enhancements 2.0:

Exploring the Pipeline Class Using Web Services Enhancements SP2

Exploring the Header in the WSE 2.0 SoapEnvelope Class

Exploring the SoapEnvelope Class in WSE2.0


Visual Studio .NET Client / Server:

Encoding/Decoding Web Service: Service Consumer

Encoding/Decoding Web Service: Web Service Provider

Client calling with Sun Java Studio Creator:

JSP Consumer for a Visual Studio Created Web Service Using Sun Java Studio Creator

Crystal Report as a service with VS 2003:

Publishing Crystal Report as a Web Service

Using Sybase Central:

Using SQL Anywhere Database with a Web Services Server

Using the Oracle 10G XE IDE:

Creating an Oracle Web Service Client for a Web Service Created in VS 2005

Using Microsoft Access 2003

MS Access Project Using Multiple Web Services