Meet The New Reports, Same As The Old Reports
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At work we’re planning to use SQL Server 2005’s Reporting Services for future reporting needs. (It’s main attraction is the free-ness of it compared with Crystal Reports.) We can do everything the customers need with DataGrids on web pages, but everyone thinks Report Services are cool. I’m pretty indifferent about it. But I guess it’ll be something good to put on my resume. (“Extensive experience with the latest buzzword technology that achieves the same goal as the previous buzzword technology, but requires learning something new.”)
Anyway, this means I get to use Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 for the first time!
And here’s the best part of the experience so far: It’s amazingly cool how ASP.NET 2.0 completely changes everything you learned in ASP.NET 1.1! By “cool,” I mean “annoying and frustrating.” If I’d known ASP.NET 1.1 was still in early alpha testing, I wouldn’t have used it in the first place.
It also occurred to me today, while I was tediously dragging boxes around to make a report, that I was doing exactly the same sort of report-building over 10 years ago with Microsoft Access 2.0 (which came on floppies). How the times have changed. Kind of.
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