Re: [OT] VPN

[Grant Castner]

I have been using NordVPN for a couple of years now with no issues

Dr Grant Castner
BCom(Hons) LLB(Hons) PhD
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com  on behalf 
of Tom P 
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:53:09 PM
To: ozDotNet 
Subject: Re: [OT] VPN

Is the speed ok with Proton? Reviews indicate speed is not as good as Nord for 
example.


On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:30, Grant Maw 
mailto:grant@gmail.com>> wrote:

Using Proton. Paid version. Very happy with it, works on Linux, PC and my 
Android tablet.

Has never let me down, has plenty of endpoints etc

On 13/10/21 4:41 pm, Tom P wrote:
Hi folks

What VPN provider are some of you using at home and are happy with? There are 
many and mixed reviews. ExpressVPN, Nord… etc.

Cheers
Tom
--
Thanks
Tom
--
Thanks
Tom

Re: ASP.NET Razor Pages

[Grant Castner]

We are using them here at pd training for some of our sites. One benefit to us 
was that these sites were previously web forms so it was an easier transition.

Grant Castner
0458 770 749
http://twitter.com/grantcastner
https://au.linkedin.com/in/grantcastner

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com  on behalf 
of David Apelt 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 8:45:50 PM
To: ozDotNet 
Subject: ASP.NET Razor Pages


Team,



Is anyone using 
ASP.NET<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fasp.net%2F=02%7C01%7C%7Cd2d9ea7888a44bf6780e08d7d0a9b46d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637207299613666323=pPJxvtzKFN6sTIiGkVU9oeNPoUMA5jZg8IPq%2FqzPeww%3D=0>
 Razor Pages in a production system?



https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/razor-pages/?view=aspnetcore-3.1=visual-studio<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Faspnet%2Fcore%2Frazor-pages%2F%3Fview%3Daspnetcore-3.1%26tabs%3Dvisual-studio=02%7C01%7C%7Cd2d9ea7888a44bf6780e08d7d0a9b46d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637207299613676328=Rpti27asZ8uwClWV82edpk8mosoHS82Dl6KsEl%2BUFK0%3D=0>



There is any number of articles comparing them to MVC (or even WebForms) but 
what are they like when used in anger?



It strikes me that they provide value but are not sufficiently differentiated 
enough from MVC to justify the futzing around with yet another framework.



Also, I am concerned that they have not gathered enough momentum and will be 
forever considered second class to that of MVC and not benefit from deep 
community support.



Thoughts?



Regards


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RE: Web app development process

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,
I had a similar issue with a web forms intranet application. I decided on 
purchasing a ready-made bootstrap theme to do the styling work for me - 
https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/inspinia-responsive-admin-theme-WB0R5L90S.

Cheers,
Grant

Grant Castner
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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf 
of Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:45:33 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Web app development process

Folks, I'm creating a non-trivial 
ASP.NET<https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2FASP.NET=02%7C01%7C%7Cd2537975e9a74d70c5ca08d5a40d51bc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636595299470148749=TgBVrTBsk%2BAp0sTlgT0y4%2Bixwlfj3KAVrnEAf9qHjzg%3D=0>
 Web Forms application for the first time in several years. I have previously 
suffered from the terrible problem where I spend more time on formatting and 
stying than I do on coding. Sometimes it can take 1 hour to get a single web 
page working, then it takes 4 hours to make it look nice. I thought I'd try 
Bootstrap this time to ease the burden of styling, but now I'm wasting more 
time learning all the conventions and quirks of Bootstrap. This is typical, I 
find if you decide to use some "kit" then you usually have to become an expert 
in that kit.

The answer to this problem is to split the development into (1) coding (2) 
styling. I have done this twice before, over 10 years ago ... I write a 
completely working web site with only the bare minimum formatting and styles, 
then later someone comes along and styles it beautifully.

Is anyone still doing this sort of thing? What do others do to style their 
sites with minimum suffering?

Finally ... Is there anyone in this group who is a styling boffin and might 
take a short contract in several weeks time to style my app once it's near 
completion? I guess it might be several hours work spread out over a few days. 
If you can help, please email me off-list at 
gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>, or phone on 0419-113-543.

Cheers,
Greg Keogh

RE: Swashbuckle documentation

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,
We are using it for our APIs and [FromBody] parameters are magically appearing. 
See for example 
http://api.professionaldevelopmenttraining.com/docs/#!/PublicBooking/V4PublicBookingsPost

I don’t have any suggestions at this stage for what to check but I will dig 
around.

Cheers,
Grant


Grant Castner
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From: Greg Keogh<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2017 4:57 PM
To: ozDotNet<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
Subject: Swashbuckle documentation

Is anyone in here documenting a WebApi by adding Swashbuckle to the project? 
I've done so and it's working reasonably well with relatively little code or 
suffering. Although it's struggle at first to read conflicting articles and 
then figure out which xmldocs and attributes actually do anything and what code 
is needed in the SwaggerConfig file.

My remaining problem is that controller [FromBody] parameters never appear in 
the generated documentation. I've spent hours futzing around and searched the 
whole Internet without any progress at all. Many samples hint that such 
parameters will magically appear in the output, but mine never do. Has anyone 
delved into this sort of thing?

Greg K

RE: Azure Active Directory

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,
If you do get to revisit Auth0, as you probably discovered it has the ability 
to authenticate against multiple sources including existing databases and AAD 
(see screenshot 
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/xj9/1498029629044-30138.png). It 
was one of the reasons we switched to it, in addition to authenticating API 
calls.

Cheers,
Grant



Grant Castner
0458 770 749
http://twitter.com/grantcastner
https://au.linkedin.com/in/grantcastner

From: Greg Keogh<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2017 5:12 PM
To: ozDotNet<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>
Subject: Re: Azure Active Directory

Chaps, I spent almost four hours this afternoon attempting to write some 
managed code that authenticated a user/password against Azure AD from a native 
app. I know you're not supposed to handle credentials like that, but it was an 
experiment for migration of the old database. I read hundreds of confusing and 
conflicting articles on the subject and they generally say it's possible, but I 
failed despite heroic and obtuse efforts. I presume it just doesn't work the 
way I think and I'm using the frameworks incorrectly. To be honest, I'm not 
even sure I had the AD environment setup correctly, so I might have been doubly 
wasting my time.

Now I'm wondering how I would migrate hundreds of users from the legacy 
database into Azure AD. Anyone done that?

GK

On 21 June 2017 at 12:19, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) 
<g...@greglow.com<mailto:g...@greglow.com>> wrote:
AAD is a wonderful tool really. Keep in mind that it has a couple of flavours, 
B2C (business to consumer) being the latest.

I’ve got clients who moved to it and simply love it. One is a car manufacturer 
who used to have to manage domains for dealers, etc. They used to spend their 
life with password and access issues. Now they just use 2 factor auth and 
cloud-based password reset, etc. and that’s all pretty much disappeared.

It’s also worth thinking about the fact that AAD is what anyone using Office 
365 will already be using anyway. And it can then be the directory for a big 
range of other things �C Microsoft stuff like Power BI, Flow, Office 365, etc. 
but also others like DropBox, ZenDesk, etc, etc, etc.

Regards,

Greg

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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] On 
Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Wednesday, 21 June 2017 10:45 AM
To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com>>
Subject: Re: Azure Active Directory

Yooiks! I'm not quite sure what I want (which is a worry). WAAD vs AADDS

You say WAAD is more light-weight, which probably suits us, I think.

Overall, as a coder, I want to put all authentication and permission/roles 
information for all of our apps and users in a single place where it can be 
maintained by admin staff, and it's easy to query from .NET code.

Am I wrong to regard WAAD as some sort of "magic" database to where I can stuff 
all our vintage data? Perhaps I'm thinking like a reductionist and expecting a 
quick fix.

If all you need to do is put WAAD authentication in front of a web app, then 
this is a piece of piss. Just deploy your app into App Server or App Service 
Environment and then turn on Azure AD auth. The App Service intercepts requests 
and does the SAML login for you transparently. The logged on user gets 
presented back to the app in a cookie.

This is a good clue. I'll look into the details of doing this.

GK

RE: Gadgets [OT]

[Grant Castner]

Not a gadget as such but made my first Apple Pay payment with my iPhone 
yesterday. I can just see my son in 10 years going, “Dad, what was that credit 
card thing you used to use?”

 

Grant

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of mike smith
Sent: Friday, 29 April 2016 11:12 AM
To: ozDotNet 
Subject: Re: Gadgets [OT]

 

Fitbit Blaze (last friday)  - Nice watch, the band looks a bit cheap.  But 
there's lots of 3rd party bands around for the Blaze)  

 

 

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Stephen Price  > wrote:

Hi, my name is Stephen and i'm a gadget-oholic. It's been 12 hours since i 
bought my last gadget. 

Got me a minix neo 8 from jbhifi (last one in stock)

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/accessories/minix/minix-neo-x8-h-plus-4k-quad-core-media-hub-for-android/648244/

Seems like a very cool device and the build feels very nice. Even came bundled 
with an air mouse controller which has a keyboard on the back. 

Anyone else got some new gadget they woukd like to share?

Sent from Outlook Mobile  





 

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RE: Sql Server Patch Scripts

[Grant Castner]

Hi Tony,
We use dbup (https://dbup.github.io/) - it allows you to create a small visual 
studio project so that you can track scripts as well as check them in.
 
Cheers,
Grant


Grant Castner
Phone: 0458 770 749
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grantcastner
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner

 
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:48:56 +1100
Subject: Sql Server Patch Scripts
From: tonyw...@gmail.com
To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com

Hi all,
Almost every system I have developed has been against a SQL Server database, 
and every environment has needed to be patched as greenfields projects 
introduce new changes.
The reality is that I have found providing patch scripts for sql server quite 
problematic and have never been very happy about what we do to apply patch 
scripts. 

I want to know what scripts have been applied to a database, and I also want to 
know that scripts applied are transactional (that is, if a script "breaks" when 
applied, nothing has changed.) I also want to be able to add data to be 
inserted into tables to my scripts.
What are people currently doing to solve these issues?
Warm regards,Tony 

RE: Excel behaviour in an app

[Grant Castner]

Devexpress has a spreadsheet control - 
https://demos.devexpress.com/ASPxSpreadsheetDemos/Default.aspx or 
https://demos.devexpress.com/MVCxSpreadsheetDemos/. 
 
You would probably still need the browser control for the apps.
 
Cheers,
Grant


Grant Castner
Phone: 0458 770 749
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grantcastner
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner

 
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:10:16 +1100
Subject: Excel behaviour in an app
From: gfke...@gmail.com
To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com

Folks, I'm wondering how people in here might tackle a technical problem we're 
about to encounter. People here often come up with surprising lateral-thinking 
ideas.
We'll soon start on an app rewrite so it runs on all brands of tablet sized 
devices. We've been evaluating many development tools and languages and so far 
it looks like Xamarin is in the lead. Our technical challenge is to create 
Excel like behaviour in the app in the most realistic way possible. We want to 
load an XLSX file, display formatted cells and charts, updating cells and 
saving the changed document is a nice-to-have.
There are no cross-platform native controls that mimic Excel, but there are 
web/JS products like Google Sheets and GrapeCity's SpreadJS which look like 
great candidates. They are of course HTML5 based, so they would have to be 
embedded in the apps in browser controls. I'm not normally that keen on 
"hybrid" apps that borrow web rendering, but I've used Google Charts in a phone 
app and the result was acceptable.
Any ideas or comments on this problem of getting Excel behaviour in native apps 
would be most welcome.
ThanksGreg K  

RE: PDF and .doc generators for websites

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,

For pdf, we use EO.pdf (
http://www.essentialobjects.com/Products/Pdf/Default.aspx
http://www.essentialobjects.com/Products/Pdf/Default.aspx). We've been using
it for a couple of years now and it has gone well.

 

Cheers,

Grant

 

Dr Grant Castner

 mailto:gcast...@outlook.com.au gcast...@outlook.com.au

0458 770 749

 https://twitter.com/grantcastner https://twitter.com/grantcastner

 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner/0/415/bb2
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner/0/415/bb2 

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Greg Low ()
Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2014 1:43 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: PDF and .doc generators for websites

 

Hi Folks,

 

Anyone got strong opinions on particular PDF and .doc generators for use
with MVC ?

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

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SQL Down Under | Web:  http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com

 

RE: Teched next week - Melbourne

[Grant Castner]

Because 7 8 9

 

 

Dr Grant Castner

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0458 770 749

 https://twitter.com/grantcastner https://twitter.com/grantcastner

 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner/0/415/bb2 
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grant-castner/0/415/bb2 

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of mike smith
Sent: Friday, 3 October 2014 6:29 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Teched next week - Melbourne

 

10? Whatever happened to 9?

On 3 Oct 2014 17:06, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com 
mailto:step...@perthprojects.com  wrote:

Hey all, 

 

I'm going to TechEd next week (Melbourne) so If anyone else is going and want 
to catch up, ping me an email or sms.

 

Looking forward to hearing all the new goodies in Windows 10 and .Net vNext. 

 

cheers

Stephen

0428028599 tel:0428028599 

 

 

 

Azure in Australia

[Grant Castner]

Exciting news from Microsoft today, with the announcement of two Azure data 
centres in Australia  -

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ausblog/archive/2013/05/21/windows-azure-expands-downunder.aspx

Dr Grant Castner
CIO
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Email: g.cast...@pdtraining.com.aumailto:g.cast...@pdtraining.com.au
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Query and View Designer in Visual Studio 2012

[Grant Castner]

Hi everyone,

In Visual Studio 2012, when you connect to a SQL server 2008 database in
server explorer and create a new query or open a view, the query designer
opens with the diagram, sql, criteria and results panes. You can also
change what panes show by default in Options à Database Tools à Query and
View Designers.

When you open a SQL Server 2012 database in server explorer, the query and
view designers are not available. You can create a new query in sql only
and you can display View results but there seems to be no way of editing a
View. The default pane settings under Query and View Designers are all
still ticked.

Does anyone know of  a way of re-enabling the query and view designers for
SQL Server 2012 databases in VS 2012? If not, is there a plugin for VS 2012
with similar functionality?

Thanks for any help,

Grant

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Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

[Grant Castner]

At least the Australian Prices have only been increased by the GST.

The Big Ass Table is now the Samsung SUR40 powered by Microsoft PixelSense

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx

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On 17 October 2012 16:05, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:

 IT press has the Australian prices 
 herehttp://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/439285/microsoft_announces_surface_rt_pricing_opens_aussie_pre-orders/
 

 ** **
 --

 **Ian Thomas**
 Victoria Park, Western Australia

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha
 *Sent:* Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:23 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices

 ** **

 Looks like I wont' be splashing out for a while

 ** **


 http://surface.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/Content/pbpage.Surface?ESICaching=offWT.mc_id=FY13WinHH
 

 ** **

 ** **

 Don't know how competitive these prices are but they seem a little high
 but then maybe they are fighting Apple and not Android.

 ** **

 US 500 without cover/keyboard

 US 600 with  cover/keyboard

 ** **


 

 ** **

 --
 regards,
 Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland

RE: Server Monitoring

[Grant Castner]

Another one to check out is PRTG network monitor. It has worked well for us
and also has a free (although limited) option.



Cheers,

Grant





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*From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
*On Behalf Of *Dave Walker
*Sent:* Saturday, 25 August 2012 7:55 PM
*To:* ozDotNet
*Subject:* Re: Server Monitoring



It's got a free option we are considering but soon as you step above that's
it's a nightmare for cost.


On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:43, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:

I thought 'splunk' was the 'money is no object' option?

Sent from my iPhone


On 25/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

If money is no object, SolarWinds



If you want something vaguely approximate that is cheaper: WhatsUpGold.



On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au
wrote:



Hi DotNetters,



Any one has any recommendations for a service/platform/application that I
can use for monitoring my cloud servers (W2K8,SQL2K8)?

I'd like to monitor classic stuff: availability, IIS, SQL, maybe a bit of
disk and CPU. The only important one really is availability (http/https).



Regards,

Corneliu







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RE: Recommendations for a file upload scroll bar control - for an asp.net website

[Grant Castner]

Hi Kirsten,

We use the Obout fileupload control and it works well for us. We have
students uploading files constantly.



http://www.obout.com/fup/



Cheers,

Grant





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*From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
*On Behalf Of *Kirsten Greed
*Sent:* Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:42 AM
*To:* 'ozDotNet'
*Subject:* Recommendations for a file upload scroll bar control - for an
asp.net website



Hi All

We have written a file upload facility in ASP.Net and want to add a control
bar to indicate how long the file will take to upload.

I understand we probably need a 3rd party control

Any recommendations?

Thanks

Kirsten
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Re: .NET hosting + Sql server

[Grant Castner]

studiocoast.com.au has worked well for me

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On 19 June 2012 21:18, Tom Gao t...@tomgao.com wrote:

 Hi Guys,

 ** **

 Looking for a cheap .net host with sql server. Just wondering who everyone
 is using.

 ** **

 Thanks,

 Tom

Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

[Grant Castner]

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price
increases June 1.

See http://charlespetzold.com/

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On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote:

 Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
 has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
 image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
 *erk*

 lol

 On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au
 wrote:
  These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available
 for
  some time, I think – but someone sent me a link just today.
 
  One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold.
 This
  has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well – plus code for C#, VB.NET
  (separate downloads).
 
  The general link is here – the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
 
  SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
  Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
  Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
  Windows Phone 7
 
  
 
  Ian Thomas
  Victoria Park, Western Australia
 
 

Re: Editing DOCX (mail-merge) and DOCX - PDF

[Grant Castner]

Hi Les,
I use a combination of ckeditor, PDF metamorphisis, and the C#
MailDefinition and Dictionary classes:

* Create a html template with merge fields (e.g. use @@FieldName@@)
* Users can edit the html template with something like ckeditor
* Use the Dictionary class to replace the merge fields in the template
* Create a pdf version of the resulting merged page using PDF Metamorphisis
* Create the email using the MailDefinition class

Cheers,
Grant


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On 8 August 2011 00:47, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:


 Hi All,

 I currently have a legacy app which uses an Access database to do a
 mail-merge with Word 2003. Due to upgrades, all of the Access 03 stuff is
 getting its last rights. Since we are now SQL server with security,
 mail-merges are a little harder than before, and not really practical. (but
 maybe I'm missing something?)

 A few questions:

 - Any good advise/links on how to do a similar thing to mail-merges?
 - I've been playing around with using System.Packaging to unzip the docx
 and find/replace on the merge fields.

 I'd like to be able to export the docx file to PDF without having Word on
 the machine, I've had a look at Aspose.Words and it seems pricey for what I
 want to do (docx-pdf on multiple client sites = ~$3000). Does anyone have
 any advice or experience with one product over another?

 I'm not 100% sure about what I am trying to do yet, so any
 info/stories/links/whatever would be appreciated.

 Thanks :)
 --
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 l...@datarev.com.au

Re: [OT] SQL Server Windows Authentication

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,
Its been a while since I had this problem but when you moved the databases
to the new server, did it create a whole bunch of additional Schemas under
Security for each database? I've seen it create new schemas for each user
(especially Windows users). Deleting those additional schemas fixed the
problem.

Kind regards,
Grant


On 22 March 2011 16:34, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Folks, this morning I was forced to perform a big switch-over to a pair of
 new Win2008 R2 domain controller and file/web/sql server machines.



 I have found that SQL Server Management Studio on the workstation machines
 does not have permission to access the databases when I use Windows
 Authentication. If I use ‘sa’ then there is no problem. If I try to open a
 database node in Object Explorer I get:



 The database X is not accessible. (ObjectExplorer)



 Procmon on the server shows me that NETWORK SERVICE does not have read
 permission on the LDF and MDF files, but If I give it full control, it has
 no effect. If I add Authenticated Users it fixes the procmon warnings but
 has no effect upon the problem.



 I’m unable to find a point of blame for this problem. I don’t know if it’s
 the NTFS permissions, some security or roles in SQL Server, or some domain
 user/group problem. Any ideas anyone? I’m stuffed.



 Greg




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Re: [OT] Sites inaccessible with Win7 and IE8

[Grant Castner]

Hi Greg,
Not sure if you have tried this already as well but completely resetting IE
8 has helped me with similar issues. Internet Options -- Advanced Tab --
Reset

Cheers,
Grant


On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

  Have you trying clicking the compatibility mode icon in the address bar
 when this happens?

 No , I don’t recall any such icon, but I do recall being asked questions
 about compatibility during installation (or first use). Everything must be
 defaulting. I just played with some compatibility options, but sadly nothing
 changed. However, this sounds like a road I haven’t explored before and I’ll
 give it a more serious try in the morning – Greg




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Re: Giving the client ability to design their own reports - fromoutput of stored procedure

[Grant Castner]

Hi Kirsten,
A similar issue has happened to me when updating settings for the
reportviewer control. Check that the reportpath attribute for localreport
has the correct path. It will sometimes reset the path to the rdlc file. I
know that I have to set the reportpath to (for example)
marketing/report.rdlc even though both the .aspx web form and .rdlc file
are both in the same directory

Kind regards,
Grant


On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote:

  Hi Grant and Peter



 Thanks for your help



 I managed to do a test report on the output of an stored proc using SQL
 Server 2005 Express edition



 I was very excited when I was able to open the .rdlc file  ( after renaming
 it to .rdl ) , move fields about and then save it.



 However the edited version will no-longer load in my application – which
 uses the report viewer to create a .pdf file



 Something to do with the datasource was changed by opening the file in
 Report Builder 3



 We aren’t using Reporting Services, so I am hopeful we may still be able to
 make it work.



 Kirsten
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 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Peter Gfader
 *Sent:* Saturday, 2 October 2010 2:20 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Giving the client ability to design their own reports -
 fromoutput of stored procedure



 Hi Kirsten,



 Report builder is an awesome tool for end users to write and change
 reports.



 Little gotcha that bit me 3 weeks ago

 *Report Builder 3.0 is for SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services *ONLY**




 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlreportingservices/thread/7bef97fb-64b5-4c34-bcc4-5e62310e1ae3



 *I wasn't aware of that ... took me a while of manual hacking in XML to
 get it deployed on SSRS 2008.*



 .peter.gfader.

 http://blog.gfader.com







 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Grant Castner gcast...@castnerit.com
 wrote:

 Hi Kirsten,

 One option is Microsoft's Report Builder. I trialled an earlier version and
 it looked good. Version 3 has some new features similar to Office 2010 (e.g.
 sparklines) From the web site -



 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 provides an intuitive
 report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the
 full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. The download
 provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder 3.0.




 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d3173a87-7c0d-40cc-a408-3d1a43ae4e33displaylang=en

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd220460.aspx



 Cheers,

 Grant



 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.au
 wrote:

 Hi All



 I am wondering about the best way to give the end user ability to write
 their own reports – using the output from a stored procedure.



 I have been designing .rdlc reports using Visual Studio 10



 What would the client need to buy or download to be able to create or
 modify such reports ?



 Is there a cheaper option than VS 10?



 Thanks

 Kirsten



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 http://blog.gfader.com/

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Re: Giving the client ability to design their own reports - from output of stored procedure

[Grant Castner]

Hi Kirsten,
One option is Microsoft's Report Builder. I trialled an earlier version and
it looked good. Version 3 has some new features similar to Office 2010 (e.g.
sparklines) From the web site -

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 provides an intuitive
report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the
full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. The download
provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d3173a87-7c0d-40cc-a408-3d1a43ae4e33displaylang=en
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd220460.aspx

Cheers,
Grant

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote:

   Hi All



 I am wondering about the best way to give the end user ability to write
 their own reports – using the output from a stored procedure.



 I have been designing .rdlc reports using Visual Studio 10



 What would the client need to buy or download to be able to create or
 modify such reports ?



 Is there a cheaper option than VS 10?



 Thanks

 Kirsten




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