Have you ever been in the middle of large source file and you need to add a "DataTable" or something else, but you don't have the appropriate "using" directive at the top of your file? In VS.NET it is very simple to add the "using" directive with a few clicks saving us developers some valuable keystrokes.

The Texas gang braved freezing temperatures and got together for a little Christmas dinner and celebrated a great year with Falafel. Our chef gave us a Texas-sized helping of sushi, steak, chicken, shrimp, and calamari. Afterwards we all retired for a bit of ice cream.

The Falafel training department has just shipped the official RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX courseware used for training Telerik customers world-wide.

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!

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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.