December 2008 Blog Posts

Reporting Services 2008 book.

Today I would like to spend some rows about a great book I have purchased on www.Amazon.com. The book is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and the author is Brian Larson, edited by MC Graw Hill. This is the direct link: book on amazon. Let's spend just few words about. First of all in my opinion the book is really great because it covers all the section of reporting services, it doesn't exclude nothing, really! Second point is the approach. Brian explain every report, step by step, by including some designer issue and trouble you can...

Internet Explorer crashes with Sharepoint.

This is a known issue that I discovered this morning. Symptoms In my company we are using Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 with Windows 2008.The clients have windows XP SP3 with Office 2003 SP3.The browser is Internet Explorer 7.0. Some clients have also Office 2007 or some part of it or some compatibility pack. When they: open a document, edit a document, check-in, check-out, Internet Explorer crashes. Resolution To solve the problem, Microsoft has realized a KB which must be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888This solved my issue in the network.

Time for changes.

Finally it seems I have found a way to have a full day of 48 hours. To do that you can just remove some hours of sleep, the kite-surf and stay all night long logged into your computer. As many of you know, I'm a NET Developer (more than that) and I'm member (not active anymore) of one of the most famous Italian NET Community (http://blogs.ugidotnet.org). Reading the other blogs, I noticed that I'm the only one who is still working with the junky old system called Windows Form 2.0. So, starting from today I will try...

Install TFS 2008 on Windows Server 2008

Last week I decided to buy the TFS license for the TFS 2008. After 2 days and a lot of headaches I decided to follow step by step the official guide which is available here: Team Foundation installation guide and to be honest, if you follow, step by step the guide, you will have a full working version of TFS. Also my MVP friend Simon Chiaretta suggested me to use the official guide. This short guide will show you how to install a stand alone version, this means, a single server version which will contains: WSS 3.0, SQL Standard 2008...