On December 2nd 2008 at 6:30 PM, Lino Tadros, President & CEO of Falafel Software, will present two sessions on AJAX and Silverlight 2.0 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Foothills College campus in Los Altos Hills.

Please visit http://www.baynetug.org to learn more about the UsersGroup and the two sessions.  Hope to see you there!

There are times when you may want to create your own custom build configuration for a project in Visual Studio, such as to define compiler symbols or to set build options for different projects within your solution. Fortunately, Visual studio makes it very simple.

Would you like to associate each of your subversion check-ins with a particular issue, bug or change request? TortoiseSVN provides an easy way to link revisions to issues in any bug tracking system.

Learn about a way to obtain SCOPE_IDENTITY() values from inside an INSTEAD OF INSERT trigger for use in subsequent SQL statements, without using an alternate key.

Use these simple settings to save time on Windows Forms with Accept and Cancel functionality.

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 updates yet - no problem, printed without error. Great, now I just had to figure out which update caused the problem. After applying updates one by one I found the winner!

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 (KB956390)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-058.mspx

The work around was to have the users export the report to PDF and print from the PDF viewer. I decided that I would try to apply these updates to the report server to see if that would fix the problem. Sure enough, all of the clients were able to print now. So if you start getting this error when trying to print from SQL Server Reports, make sure you apply the Windows updates to your report server.

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!

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.

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!