By Rainer Stropek on 2/24/2007

Those of you who take a look at our blogs from time to time, recognized that we have not written very much during the last few weeks. The reason was a hell of work that we invested in preparing for two conferences on which we will do sessions, the BASTA and the Microsoft Big>Days. Read this blog if you want to know what we are going to show there... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/17/2007

Using "select *" in views is sometimes useful if you want to make sure that all columns of an underlying table are included in your view's result. However, it can lead to very nasty errors that are hard to find. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/14/2007

Auf den Big>Days 2007 werde ich u.a. eine Session über SQL Server 2005 halten. Harald Leitenmüller von Microsoft Österreich hat dazu mit mir einen Podcast aufgenommen. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 2/14/2007

I already blogged that we, Karin Huber and I, have written an article about data editing applications using WPF. Now you can ready it online. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 1/2/2007

Yesterday night we finished our next article for the German MSDN magazine. This time my collegue Karin Huber and I will focus on how to write data-oriented WPF applications. We also present an editable Version of ListView. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 11/7/2006

Tomorrow I have to do a presentation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOS). By now I just had a single machine to demo MOS. However, I had some issues demonstrating all functions of MOS. Therefore I decided to setup a new, clean demo environment consisting of three virtual computers. This is not as easy as I thought... Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/9/2006

Todays I had the situation that the performance of a SQL Server 2005 (with SP1) at one of my customers was very poor. It took minutes to start SQL Mgmt. Studio, opening a SSIS package was endlessly slow, etc. After some hours of research we found out that the problem was the update of the CRL (Certificate Revokation List). Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/6/2006

Finally I have it im my hands, the October/November issue of the German msdn magazine with my article "The World in XAML" in it. It is about some principles of WPF programming demonstrated in a sample that shows how to implemented world maps in XAML. In this blog I want to summarize the most important parts. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 10/2/2006

If you have to implement a large number of standard reports in BusinessObjects (BO), it is important to define a set of quality criteria. In this article I want to suggest such criteria. They are focused on reporting implemented with BO but I am sure that you can use a similiar quality checklist for other report generators. Read More »

By Rainer Stropek on 9/26/2006

Regularly I have to refresh a set of BusinessObjects XI 2 (BOXI 2) Desktop Intelligence reports. This can be a boring task. Therefore I have written a short VBA macro that is able to refresh a list of reports specified in an Excel worksheet and export them into PDF files. Read More »