Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0

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Report Builder 2.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 provides an intuitive report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. The download provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder 2.0

How do I use Entity Client?

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Silverlight 2.0 Software Development Kit Documentation

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If you don’t know already, Silverlight 2.0 was released:

• Download Silverlight 2.0 – Silverlight Control Pack – Visual Studio 2008 Blend and Tools Support

“Silverlight 2 includes a rich UI framework that makes building rich Web applications much easier.  In includes a powerful graphics and animation engine, as well as rich support for higher-level UI capabilities like controls, layout management, data-binding, styles, and template skinning. Silverlight 2 includes a rich set of built-in controls that developers and designers can use to quickly build applications.  The Silverlight 2 release includes core form controls (TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, ComboBox, etc), built-in layout management panels (StackPanel, Grid, Panel, etc), common functionality controls (Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar, DatePicker, etc), and data manipulation controls (DataGrid, ListBox, etc).”

If you are interested in developing applications using Silverlight 2.0, you can now download the Silverlight 2.0 Software Development Kit Documentation separately.

Per the download site:

“The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 SDK Documentation is the Silverlight product standalone documentation provided for download. It is in CHM format (compiled HTML) and can be viewed on a PC or by installing a CHM reader on MAC.”

You can download the Silverlight 2.0 SDK Documentation here.

Free Silverlight 2.0 Training

• Silverlight 2.0 Presentation – Tampa Florida .Net Developers
• Develop Silverlight 2.0 Web Applications and Data Access in Tampa Florida

Silverlight 2.0 Tutorials

• Download Prism v2.0 Drop 3 – Composite.UnityExtensions Ported to Silverlight
• Prism 2.0 and Developing Composite Silverlight Applications
• WPF and Silverlight Application Development Framework – Caliburn Alpha
• Download Silverlight 2.0 – Silverlight Control Pack – Visual Studio 2008 Blend and Tools Support

Download Silverlight 2.0 – Silverlight Control Pack – Visual Studio 2008 Blend and Tools Support

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Download Silverlight 2.0

Silverlight provides a rich set of features for development including:

• WPF UI Framework: Silverlight 2 includes a rich UI framework that makes building rich Web applications much easier.  In includes a powerful graphics and animation engine, as well as rich support for higher-level UI capabilities like controls, layout management, data-binding, styles, and template skinning.  The WPF UI Framework in Silverlight is a compatible subset of the WPF UI Framework features in the full .NET Framework, and enables developers to re-use skills, controls, code and content to build both rich cross browser web applications, as well as rich desktop Windows applications.
• Rich Controls: Silverlight 2 includes a rich set of built-in controls that developers and designers can use to quickly build applications.  The Silverlight 2 release includes core form controls (TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, ComboBox, etc), built-in layout management panels (StackPanel, Grid, Panel, etc), common functionality controls (Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar, DatePicker, etc), and data manipulation controls (DataGrid, ListBox, etc).  All Silverlight controls support a rich control templating model, which enables developers and designers to collaborate together to build highly polished solutions.
• Rich Networking Support: Silverlight 2 includes rich networking support.  It includes out of the box support for calling REST, WS*/SOAP, POX, RSS, and standard HTTP services.  It supports cross domain network access (enabling Silverlight clients to directly access resources and data from resources on the web).  It also includes built-in sockets networking support.
• Rich Base Class Library: Silverlight 2 includes a rich .NET base class library of functionality (collections, IO, generics, threading, globalization, XML, local storage, etc).  It includes rich APIs that enable HTML DOM/JavaScript integration with .NET code.  It includes LINQ and LINQ to XML library support (enabling easy transformation and querying of data), as well as local data caching and storage support.  The .NET APIs in Silverlight are a compatible subset of the full .NET Framework.
• Rich Media Support: Silverlight 2 includes built-in video codecs for playing high definition video, as well as for streaming it over the web (including both live and on-demand support).  Silverlight includes support for adaptively switching video bitrates on the fly based on network conditions (enabling users to avoid seeing the dreaded “buffering…” message), placing and metering ads within video streams, as well as enabling content protection.

Silverlight Control Pack

The Silverlight Control Pack includes numerous new controls for Silverlight 2.0:

• TreeView
• DockPanel
• WrapPanel
• ViewBox
• Expander
• NumericUpDown
• AutoComplete
• etc…

Download Silverlight 2.0 here.

Silverlight Tutorials

• WPF and Silverlight Application Development Framework – Caliburn Alpha
• Prism 2.0 Drop 1 – Composite WPF and Silverlight Application Guidance from Patterns & Practices
• Prism 2.0 and Developing Composite Silverlight Applications

Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0

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You can download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0.

Per the download site:

“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 delivers an intuitive, Office-like report authoring environment enabling business and power users to leverage their experience with Microsoft Office 2007 products. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services including:

• Flexible report layout caabilities of SQL Server 2008 Report Definition Language
• Data Visualizations including charts and gauges
• Richly formatted textboxes
• Export to Microsoft Office Word format

Features specific to Report Builder 2.0 are focused on simplifying the process of creating and editing reports and queries and include the following:

• Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions
• Support for directly opening and editing reports stored on the report server
• Support for using server resources such as shared data sources
• Query designers for multiple data sources including a Microsoft SQL Server-specific query designer”

Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 here.

SQL Server 2008 Resources

• Download SQL Server 2008
• Download Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack – August 2008
• Tampa Florida CodeCamp 2008 – Free .NET Developer Training
• Free SQL Server 2008 Training in Orlando Florida – Orlando SQL Saturday
• SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Enhancements : FileStream Data Type : Table-Valued Parameters – Ft. Lauderdale Florida

How Do I Use the new Entity Data Source?

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How Do I Get Started with the Entity Framework?

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Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable

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Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1)

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How Do I Serialize a Graph with the Entity Framework

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