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@blowdart: 

Arrived in the office this morning to a mutilated C9 guy.

I have no idea what sort of evil would engage in such a practice, but I am pretty disheartened.

Is there anyway to get more?

Jamie, John, you guys still around?

I have a service that batches SSRS reports by making calls to the RSExecution web service.

I am having an issue with reports that contain cascading parameters, it seems that I am unable to successfully set a parameter value for a cascading parameter.

Any attempt at running the report programatically results in a ReportParameterValueNotSetException, even though I am sending the report parameter in via theReportExecutionService.SetExecutionParameters method

Ideas or tips?

@ScanIam (and anyone else)

Arguing over a book that you've never actually read is a bit foolish, aye.

Looking for a way for a service to prevent a windows box from sleeping.

Is the SetThreadExecutionState api call the only way via .NET (C# or F#)?

I am John Galt.

/spam

Wondering if anyone else has experienced any similar issues with Excel 2007 on Win7.

We have tons of legacy crystal reports that the biz still findes extremely useful. Ever since we upgraded everyone to Win7 and Office 2007 from XP Office 2003 we are seeing some disturbing issues that we can't seem to resolve.

Previously, (pre Win7/office 2007) when we exported our cyrstal reports to Excel, they would print to 1 page wide. Ever since the upgrade the pages wrap to 2 pages in width.

Yes, we can manually go in and say "fit all columns to one page" in the printer settings, but performing this task 250 times a day doesn't really make the users happy.

We are planning on retiring all of our crystal reports at the end of this year, so we do nopt want to spend cycles modifying the reports themselves.

Clearly, this directly related to either the office 2007 or win 7 upgrade (or both), is there some way to easily resolve this?

Even if I could somehow default the printer options to the "fit all columns on one page" setting, I think that may be acceptable as a stop gap.

Any ideas? I have spent 2 days trying to think about a solution and I am stumped and grumpy.

1 day ago, ManipUni wrote

I can sum up why the iPad is better in one word: battery.

The top end Android tabs give it a run for its money (Xoom) but most are just pointless devices with their pathetic 1-3.5 hours battery life. From what I've read when Apple claims you will get 7 hours, you will actually get that period out in the field.

Plus, I own an Android phone, the OS is good but not nearly as polished as iOS and it also lacks a good app' store (Android Marketplace isn't "good"). So I cannot see myself paying the same price for an Android devices as I would for iOS - my phone for example cost 1/5th of an iPhone.

I think it is the right decision to buy an iPad right now. The competition isn't either cheap or good enough to be "good value" (value = price/quality).

I've got a samsung galaxy S phone running froyo and I find it just as "polished" as the IOs4.

I get a full day of use on a single charge (assuming limited web surfing, music streaming).

And I really don't find the android market to be lacking.

I will grant you there are some small issues with sensors from time to time, but they will be worked out soon enough.

Being locked into itunes alone is reason enough for me to avoid anything apple.

@Minh:

Are you some kind of hill jack?

@W3bbo:

Yeah, it's all pretty funny