More fun with Crystal reports . . . I had a new report fully configured and signed off on and was all set to publish to our report system when I made a wonderful little discovery: when running the report, the viewer would fail with the (seemingly infamous) error message stating that the &qu... [More]

I've been learning quite a bit about Crystal Reports in the last month. We've begin migrating all of the internal CBMC reporting tools from custom HTML display logic to using Crystal XI Developer. One of the more interesting issues I've run into resulted from trying to calculate a summar... [More]

I was looking for a quick way to edit an XML config file used in an admin tool and was excited when I started looking into the XmlDataSource class introduced with .NET 2.0. As billed, this class "Represents an XML data source to data-bound controls" - ie: you can use it to bind to a GridVi... [More]

It appears that Firefox and Virtual Earth don't play as well together as I had thought. I've been working on implementing a map for one of our clients to show just a basic display of their location. Things were going fairly well until I noticed Firefox 2 wasn't firing the onMapLoad() callback I h... [More]