I use and work on Silverlight 2 development using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Heres an interesting development l just found out about callled Moonlight, which is geared towards being an open source implementation for unix/linux. Cant wait to try this on my linux distro Fedora. Heres the website link: http://go-mono.com/moonlight/
Another interesting development to watch is: eyeOS – web based operating system – see: http://eyeos.org/en/
Here is a code snippet l got working which enables you to render using Visual Basic .Net an SSRS (Sql Server Report Services) Report to Adobe Acrobat PDF format or Microsoft Excel XLS file.
Public Sub RenderReportTOExcel(ByVal inReportFileName As String, ByVal inReportName As String) ’7/14/2008 SM
‘converts SSRS report to microsoft excel/acrobat pdf file
Dim objReportViewer As New FrmWithReportViewer
‘Dim strFormat As String = “PDF”
Dim strFormat As String = “Excel”
Dim strDeviceInfo As String = String.Empty
Dim myURLAccessParams As System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection = Nothing
Dim reportStream As System.IO.Stream = Nothing
Dim strMimeType As String = String.Empty
Dim strFileNameExtension As String = String.Empty
Dim file_name As String = “d:\test001.xls”
objReportViewer.Text = inReportName
OFD.FileName = “exportfile.xls”
OFD.ShowDialog()
file_name = OFD.FileName
Dim raw As System.IO.FileStream = New System.IO.FileStream(file_name, IO.FileMode.Create)
Dim buffer(1024) As Byte
Dim read As Integer = -1
Dim intCount As Integer = 1
With objReportViewer.ReportViewer
.ProcessingMode = Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ProcessingMode.Remote
.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl = New Uri(My.Settings.ReportServerURL)
.ServerReport.ReportPath = My.Settings.ReportPath + inReportFileName
reportStream = .ServerReport.Render(strFormat, strDeviceInfo, myURLAccessParams, strMimeType, strFileNameExtension)
lblMessage.Text = “Working…”
read = reportStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)
While (read > 0)
raw.Write(buffer, 0, read)
read = reportStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)
intCount += 1
End While
lblMessage.Text = “Completed.”
raw.Flush()
raw.Close()
raw.Dispose()
End With
raw = Nothing
reportStream = Nothing
End Sub
Watch this development – Open source Windows XP – React Operating System
Interesting Video from University of Washington on Google Linux cluster
Recommended (software l’ve tried and found very useful compared to various similar options, all those listed below work on Windows vista also):
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