Tuesday, March 25, 2008

My problems with the Reporting Services in Visual Studio 2008

I have used Reporting Services with VS 2003 and VS 2005 and I am beginning to work with VS 2008. I have come across a strange problem. I used the Reporting Services Configuration utility that comes with the default installation of SQL Server 2008 November CTP. The Configuration gets completed without a hitch and I can see the Report Server databases in my Server but when I try to access the Web URL or even the Object Browser in the Management Studio I get an exception. I am trying to find out the reasons for this.



What I have found so far is that while the Reporting Services Configuration provides me with a default web URL [that I can happily click on] it does not write it to the configuration file, the RSReportServer.config. Could this be the reason?

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Strangers in a strange land

During early 1960's walking around Kempegowda Circle in Bangalore I used to see these strange people selling odd things whose total value did not exceed a few rupees at that time. They definitely looked strange and they looked even stranger because their fair skins were scorched dark by the southern sun. These were the refugees from Tibet and they had come as far as they could. It was heartbreaking to think of them as refugees, and they had come from the very abode of the gods.

My sympathies are with the Tibetans who have been displaced. Indian Government gave them refuge and made 'Dharmashala' lives upto its name, dispensing Dharma. But economic ties and pragmatism has driven India to the cautious side which does not help these people. The World is sitting on the side walk and seems not to have lifted a finger.

It's time for China to give autonomy to Tibet if not an outright independence.

Also visit this important link to see how they are surviving and thriving in Karnataka, India

More here:
https://hodentek.blogspot.com/2017/12/want-to-see-elephants-and-drink-great.html#google_vignette

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Run a web query and get lottery results for analysis

Three easy steps to get web data into your Excel Spread Sheet. This shows how you may get megamillion lottery results for later analysis (speculation?).

Step 1:
Open the web query window using Microsoft Excel as shown.



Step 2:Enter the following (or cut and paste) URL
http://www.megamillions.com/winningpicks/last_25.asp into the address box


Step 3:
Accept Excel's default location for pasting the data



La voila!, the results (only part of it shown here) are in your spread sheet now.

Do you want to mine text?

This article shows how you may mine information buried in the body of a text using the Term Extraction Transformation. You can find nouns, noun phrases, or both nouns and noun phrases in sentences presented to the transformation.

Term Extraction Transformation

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Expression Blend with SharpDevelop

About SharpDevelop:

SharpDevelop is an Open Source Development Environment for .NET. Actually it is pretty useful and I could open many of the Microsoft Samples from Expression Blend quite easily. The samples displayed fast and you could even see the threads running and the modules loaded. You can even download the code and executables. May be you should take a look at this link:
SharpDevelop

Example from Expression Blend:

A part of the output excised is shown here.



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