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Prelude to How To Select Data Reporting and Analysis Components
I'm currently in the midst of writing another How-To-Select (tm) Guides. I actually just started last week and have a lot to do. This one is on Data Reporting and Analysis components. It essentially covers Reporting Engines, Reporting Servers, Report Building GUI components, Various GUI Querying tools (like OLAP Grids), and Mathematical Analysis tools (I'm way above my head on that last one, but that will change as I immerse myself into this).The list of products that we will be covering are Component One's Reporting tools (for .NET and ASP.NET); Developer Express'XtraReports, XtraPivotGrid, and XtraPrinting Library; 9Rays' Reporting Sharp-Shooter (for...
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VB NEXT thoughts
I'm currently reading the overview of VB 9 (aka Orcas) here
And I just read something that made me want to stand up and applaud the VB team! Here's the statement
"Because types of local-variable declarations are inferred by default, no matter what the setting of Option Strict is, access to such variables is always early-bound. The programmer must explicitly specify late binding in Visual Basic 9.0, by explicitly declaring variables as of type Object.. "
Finally, we are taking a step back away from this whole variant mess... Ok, let me explain. I started with VB in version 3. VB3 had both...
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Desktop Widgets and a way to make bad publicity...
I have been playing with desktop GUI widgets the last week or so (mainly because of a Sahil post -- http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/08/25/131224.aspx). I have Konfabulator up and running and besides the memory footprint it seems to be pretty cool. This caused me to wonder if there were other types of GUI widgets. I found a few...- Samurize- DesktopX (commercial)- AVE Desktop- Konfabulator (of course)- KapsulesAfter playing with all of them, I can easily tell you my thoughts.
SamurizeSamurize seems to be more than just a widget kit; So much so that I can't figure out what to do with it or...