Here are the first 2 parts of this article:
How to Display SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in Silverlight
How to Display SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in Silverlight (Part 2)
Custom Rendering Extension
The main shtick of our approach is that we implement custom XAML rendering extension and set it on the SSRS side. This allows us to provide a user with reports in native Silverlight look. Thus, the report’s look & feel is much better in comparison with HTML document.
Let’s learn how to implement custom rendering extension.
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June 24th, 2011
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Where the doubts come from…
Guys from Microsoft cannot stop scaring Silverlight developers: already several months ago developers community was surprised with that small info that was said about Silverlight during October’s PCD (the technology was mentioned just in slightly and relating to the mobile development), from the other side they actively promoted HTML 5. Besides, further statement of Bob Muglia, – “Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted” breed lots of pessimistic options regarding the future of Silverlight.
Lately, Bob did his best to soften this leakage telling that ‘shifting the strategy’ was not a negative statement, but rather a comment on how industry had changed, anyway the ball started rolling and the developers who trusted their future to Silverlight felt alarm.
However, Silverlight community seems to worry all the time. Probably, the reason of such behavior is the technological face-off with Adobe Flash on one side and upcoming HTML5 and JavaScript technologies on the other side. And Microsoft itself does not allow to relax and insinuating the future of Silverlight as a platform for development of “lifetime” applications.
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June 20th, 2011
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
This is the second article from the series of articles on SSRS and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services. This article describes the peculiarities of implementation of the custom extension in SSRS.
SQL Server Reporting Services provides a full range of ready-to-use tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization, as well as programming features that enable you to extend and customize your reporting functionality.
I think that if you are interested in implementation of Silverlight into SSRS then you have general idea of SSRS functionality. That’s why I won’t go into detail on it in this article. Instead, I will touch upon the aspects which are used in our system.
Let’s examine the SSRS architecture:
June 16th, 2011
Qualified, skilled developers are of great value in any IT company. In fact, talented specialists are the basis of the company who provide success to the business.
We are glad that two Microsoft Certified developers have joined our company’s staff. Two of our developers successfully passed the exams to get Microsoft Corp. Certificates last week.
Sergey Piskov – our experienced Silverlight developer has confirmed his skills by taking the exam on Silverlight 4. Sergey got the status of Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.
Vitaliy Korney – our expert in development of the products on Windows Azure passed the PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications exam. This was the first step to MCPD: Windows Azure Developer 4 status. Good luck with the next exam!
We congratulate our specialists with their achievements in development and let it be the sky as the limit for you!
June 14th, 2011
