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The purpose of this website is to share some of the knowledge and ideas I accumulate during the course of work.

I'm currently based in Tasmania working for Technology Service Group (TSG) as an Anaylst Programmer, TSG is the information technology provider for Federal Hotels and Resorts. Federal Hotels & Resorts operates in the tourism and leisure industry and is recognised as Tasmania’s leading tourism, entertainment, accommodation and gambling services provider.

I also run the Hobart .Net User Group which meets on the last Tuesday of each month at Wrest Point.
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HDNUG Presentation July 2008 - Entity Framework
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:08 PM
Based around an example application we will take a practical look at the upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework (coming shortly with SP1 for .Net 3.5) and how it will reduce development time for data driven applications.
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Searchable / Dependant Parameters in SSRS
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:51 PM
How to filter the values in an SSRS parameter drop down list using a text search. The idea behind this post came from a question from a colleague, they wanted an SSRS report where they could select from a list of employees but the list could be filtered by searching on the surname (i.e. you enter ‘S’ and it would load a dropdown of all employees whose surname start with S).
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SSRS Custom Code (Expressions, Embedded Code & External Assemblies)
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:48 PM
In this article we will look at the options for using custom .Net code in our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. There are three main ways to use code to help generate our reports, in increasing order of complexity (and therefore flexibility) these are; - Expressions - Embedded Code - External Assemblies
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Emailing an SSRS Report using ReportViewer
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Monday, June 23, 2008 11:35 AM
Through the ReportViewer component users can view, export and print SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. Developers also get some nice hooks into the ReportViewer control and I’m going to demo how we can use these to extract the report to a pdf and attach it to a new outlook message ready for the user to view and send.
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WCF Configuration - Adjusting the default message limits
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:16 PM
When publishing a WCF service there are certain default limits imposed on the messages being sent and received. For example arrays are limited to 16384 elements, strings are limited to 8192 characters and the total message is limited to 64K.
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Programmatically generating web service calls
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, May 30, 2008 1:46 PM
I recently wanted make a call to a third party web service without the use of a proxy class. The code shown in this post will allow you to programmatically build and submit a web service call using the HttpRequest class.
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ACS Northern Tas Presentation - May 16 2008
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:28 PM
Yesterday I presented at an Australian Computer Society event in Launceston (Northern Tas), this was a slight variation on the SOA/.Net 3.5/VS2008 presentation I did at the Hobart .Net User Group last month.
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Transmitting Images in WCF – Databinding Images in WPF
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:59 PM
Pulling images from an MSSQL Database, transmitting them in a WCF DataContract and then databinding them in WPF. System.Data.Linq.Binary -> System.Drawing.Bitmap -> System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.
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Horizontally Centred Dynamic Images in SSRS
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, May 09, 2008 9:00 PM
I recently needed to centre an unknown number of images horizontally across the top of an SSRS Report, this is how I ended up doing it.
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Sample WPF SOA Application
Rowan's Tech Blog By Rowan Miller on Friday, May 09, 2008 3:40 PM
An example WPF application based on data in SQL Server using LINQ and WCF (SQL -> LINQ -> WCF -> WPF)
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