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Microsoft has started a new era in Office Automation programming by introducing XML support in creating Office documents. This will help developers to generate reports in a standardized manner.

We have found so many scenarios of creating Excel reports in our web or desktop application. The one of the good ways to implement this is to create a report using Microsoft Excel object. In this article we will describe how to create an Excel report using Excel object.

We have seen in ASP.NET 1.1 and earlier versions, when trying to load a page for the first time; it is taking so much time to load. But for the subsequent requests, it is not taking that much time. The reason is, when the first request is reached; there are lots of works to do at the server, like ASPX files would be parsed and converted to MSIL and the classes would be JITed to native code. For the subsequent request there will be a cached version of compiled code available.

The BDOTNET Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 will be held on March 29th 2008.

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Just done a simple SSIS package to load an excel feed to a SQL Server 2005 Staging Table. Looks very interesting. A slight change from the usual tasks, but it is wonderful !!

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Learn about the makings of the !exploitable Crash Analyzer tool. It's the only tool of its kind that increases efficiency, reduces cost, and improves security by providing automated crash analysis and security risk assessment.

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.NET Services are a set of highly scalable building blocks for programming in the cloud. In this brief screencast, you'll learn about the registration process, the SDK and the built-in samples - everything you need to know in order to get started.

The Windows 7 Release Candidate is now available. Download, install, and actively test the Windows 7 RC code to help get your software and hardware solutions ready.

GotDotNet is an excellent online .NET community. There is a great resource for all Microsoft.Net related information, code, resources and more. They provide project workspaces to establish challeging projects in .Net.