winforms

How oh how is one to get XML from a local (not server) SSRS report? As it turns out, via Excel. The LocalReport.Render() method only supports Excel, PDF, and Image formats, but since the Excel 2007+ file format is just compressed XML, it didn’t take too much finagling to get what I was really after. The only thing I needed was the Microsoft OpenXml SDK, easily acquired through Nuget. This code snippet shows how to get the rendered values from a LocalReport in memory:...

One of the great disappointments of a programmer’s workday is creating a component only to discover shortly after finishing that someone else had already created the exact same component...

A couple exciting episodes of resolving issues with that pesky class, ApplicationSettingsBase...

Working with WinForms balloon tooltips isn’t as predictable as you might expect...