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Belgian Community Day Webcasts

Davy Knuysen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:54:30 GMT

Community Day 2008 was again a great succes!

You can watch the recorded sessions under the download category Sessions on www.communityday.be

Belgian Community Day 2008

Davy Knuysen — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:01:17 GMT

The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, just like you, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise. The many user groups that were started the last couple of years are doing a great job trying to address these needs with monthly meetings.

Eight of them, Belgian Dynamics Community, Biwug, IT-Talks, Pro-Exchange, SQLUG, Visug, Winsec, and XNAbug have decided to combine their efforts again to organize another joint-event just before summer starts. So if you are eager to learn, get answers to your questions and meet your peers, come and join us at the premises of SemCom in Keerbergen on Thursday, the 26th of June 2008.

More here.

Next SQLUG-evening on Thu, May 29

Davy Knuysen — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:52:16 GMT

"Managing, monitoring and troubleshooting SQL Server using Free tools" given by Dirk Gubbels (Microsoft)

Abstract:
Out of the box, SQL Server 2005 offers nice tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases. If you want to get an even richer experience and a broader toolset, there are a lot of hidden gems out there, free for you to download and to make the life of the DBA easier. This practical and demo-driven session will show you how to make best use of some of these. Topics include: Extending Management studio with custom reports, Performance dashboard, Sqlio, Dmvstats, RML Utilities and more...

Level: 300

Date: Thu May 29, 2008

Agenda:
18:00 - 18:30 Welcome with a drink & sandwich
18:30 - 20:00 Part 1
20:00 - 20:30 Pause
20:30 - 22:00 Part 2
22:00 - ... networking

Location:
The event-sponsor is Global Knowledge in Mechelen:
Zandvoorstraat 1
2800 Mechelen

A route description can be downloaded here.

Registration is needed and is open.

Registration will be closed on May 26

Community Day 2007

Davy Knuysen — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:08:31 GMT

As a core member of SQLUG, I would like to invite you to the Belgian Community Day 2007.

From www.communityday.be :

The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, like yourself, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise.

Five belgian usergroups, BIWUG, VISUG, SQLUG, IT-Talks, and Pro-Exchange, have decided to combine their efforts to organize a joint-event just before summer starts. This event will be the biggest community event in Belgium! So if you are eager to learn, eager to get answers to your questions and eager to socialize, come and join us for our very first Belgian Community Day.

The event will take place at the premises of SemCom in Keerbergen on Thursday, the 28th of June 2007.

See you there!

101 LINQ Samples

Davy Knuysen — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:24:34 GMT

Want to start using LINQ?

These examples might help you: MSDN - 101 LINQ Samples

IE Developer Toolbar v1

Davy Knuysen — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:08:39 GMT

The first official version of the IE Developer Toolbar has been released.

You can download the toolbar and release notes here

SQL Server Reporting Services: Create and Call a Custom Assembly

Davy Knuysen — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:51:00 GMT

In one of my previous articles I explained how to use embedded code in SQL Server Reporting Services. The possibility to add embedded code to a report, is a very powerfull feature to add some custom functionality to your report.
But sometimes it might be necessary to add some custom functionality that is too complicated for embedded code to handle efficiently, or you need to access the same function from multiple reports, or you would like to write you code in C#...
In one of these cases you should develop a custom assembly to call from your report.

Let’s start with a simple example and develop a function PercentageToColor() to return a color based on a numeric value representing a percentage.

namespace MyAssembly

{

public class Colors

{

public string PercentageToColor(double percentage)

{

string returnValue = string.Empty;

if (percentage < 20)

{

returnValue = "red";

}

else if (percentage < 80)

{

returnValue = "blue";

}

else

{

returnValue = "green";

}

return returnValue;

}

Once you’ve compiled your class you need to copy the resulting assembly to the directory in which it is accessible from within your report:

· To use it in the report designer, you need to copy it to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

· To make it available for reports that have been deployed to the report server, you need to copy it to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin

Before you can access your custom assembly you have to reference the assembly: Open the report properties (Menu: Report – Report Properties) and select the References tab.

Browse to your assembly and define a Class Name and an Instance Name. (The Class Name and the Instance Name or only for non-static methods). Make sure to prefix your class name with the assembly name.

Now you can call the methods in your assembly from your report, using an expression:

· To call a static method: =<AssemblyName>.<ClassName>.<StaticMethodName>

· To call an instance method: =Code.<InstanceName>.<PublicMethodName>

So in our example this would be: =Code.TestColor.PercentageToColor(Fields!Percentage.Value)

That's it! You've just created and called a custom assembly from your report...

In one of my future articles I will explain how to pass parameters to the class constructor and I will also tell something about SSRS and .Net Permissions...

Davy Knuysen

Scott Guthrie talks about Visual Studio Orcas

Davy Knuysen — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:24:00 GMT

Last week Scott Guthrie came to belgium to talk about "Visual Studio Orcas" and "Tips and Trick for ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX".

I was lucky enough to attend this session, but if you've missed it: Tom Mertens recorded the entire session.

March 28 and 29: Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2007 in Belgium

Davy Knuysen — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:30:00 GMT

For more info and registration, go here.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

Davy Knuysen — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:54:00 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 delivers a rich client-side AJAX library that provides cross platform, cross browser support for a core JavaScript type-system, JSON-based network serialization stack, JavaScript component/control model, as well as common client JavaScript helper classes. ASP.NET AJAX also delivers a rich server-side library that integrates AJAX functionality within ASP.NET, and enables developers to easily AJAX-enable existing ASP.NET 2.0 sites with minimal effort...

Read the full article on ScottGU's blog

You can download it here