If you recently got this error when trying to print from your SQL Server Reports page then listen up. We recently started getting this with one of our big report server installations. We hadn't deployed any new reports recently, no recent configuration changes, so why now? I did remember applying a number of Windows updates to one of my development machines the night before. A quick check with the customer client machines revealed that those same Window updates also got applied. So I tried printing a report from one of my other development machines that had not gotten the Windows ...

Hi Fellow .NET geeks worldwide! Are you going to be at PDC 2008 in Los Angeles ?  If Yes, then look for our CTO, John Waters in this flashy shirt seen below around the Telerik booth # 401

We are looking for a few GOOD .NET developers and trainers, John will be conducting interviews right at the PDC, who knows you might go home with an offer letter in hand to start working for a fun and successful company.

Best of luck to all and have a great conference!

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Lino Tadros (CEO) and John Waters (CTO) had the pleasure of presenting the new release of ActiveFocus 2008 Q3 this week in Denver Colorado at the PMI Conference.  The product received rave reviews for its elegance, ease of use and speed.  Stay tuned for the release of the product to the public in the next week.

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The Falafel team from California, Colorado and Texas assembled once again for the 5th annual Maui retreat from Oct 4th to Oct 11th.  We all had a wonderful time and got a chance to celebrate a very successful year at Falafel and enjoy each other's company and our families.  Cheers to all the Falafelites for a great year and a great vacation!

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I recently discovered that I can actually use most of my favorite C# 3.0 language features even in projects that target .NET Framework 2.0. For some of you, this is probably a 'duh, of course you can, those are compiler features, not framework features!', but for those of you out there like me that didn't cotton on to this, I hope this blog will be good news!

So, here are the features you can use:

  • object initializers
  • lambda expressions (yeah!)
  • automatic properties
  • anonymous types
  • local variable type inference

Again, this is because these features are all ...