Hello, I'm   Jason

I came across this really cool demonstration and article by Simon Pang earlier today. I asked around awhile ago for a solution where I could create a PDF on the fly using SQL Reporting Services. Cool enough, he came up with a solution. Check out his article on the Code Project at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ssrs_pdf.asp.

For the full PR wire, visit http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070618/aqm723.html.

Soma announced a couple of days ago that the new Scrum project is available for download on MSDN. eScrum is a web interface that displays project updates on a daily basis and integrates with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel.

The next .NET Valley Live! event will be on June 27th, 2007 in Scranton, PA. More details including event registration can be found at http://dotnetvalley.com/events/eventdetails.aspx?eventid=21.

Here is a partial Windows Mobile Voice Command list: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/voicecommand/tutorials.mspx

I needed to remove a domain controller earlier today after the hardware failed. I couldn’t find an easy way to remove it from the domain. So, I contacted some friends of mine over at Synergistic Networks. They had suggested that I look at the following procedure: http://www.petri.co.il/delete_failed_dcs_from_ad.htm. That worked perfectly! Thanks guys!

Awhile back, Scott Guthrie had posted a blog entry about various progress icons and indicators. Here is the list that he posted:

In some circumstances, you may need to test .NET web services outside of the localhost, but via the browser. By default, this is disabled in the machine.config. If you were to attempt to browse to a service from a different PC or to access a service under a host name, you’d receive a message stating: “The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.” To circumvent this issue, open up the web.config and add:

I ran across a tool created by Zeddy at http://geeks.netindonesia.net/blogs/zeddy/archive/2007/04/25/Visual-Studio-Plugin-for-Community-Server.aspx. It allows you to select some code and copy it to Community Server preserving the format. Looks pretty cool.

TECHbash 2007 was a success! We had over 100 attendees throughout the day. This was really cool given the area that we’re in. Hopefully all of the attendees come out to each of our future events. More details about our June event will be announced next week.