Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

recent posts

about

I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

Category: Reports

  • SSRS Basics: Set up Visual Studio to Write a New SSRS Report

    When first looking into writing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports in Visual Studio, it’s easy to think that creating a report will be possible straight out of the box with one of the existing templates that Visual Studio comes with. Somewhat surprisingly, this is not the case for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.

  • Generate a PDF from an ASP.NET Web Page using the iTextSharp XMLWorker Namespace

    If you need to quickly and easily generate PDF documents from ASP.NET, then the iTextSharp library for .NET is very convenient. To install and start using iTextSharp, you can download the zipped reference files from the SourceForge Web site and then add them to your Visual Studio project the same way as you would do with…

  • Crystal Reports Generating SQL Server Error 18456 Severity 8 Error Logs

    Crystal Reports XI R2 and Crystal Reports 9 incorrectly generate non-critical connection error logs when set to run reports from SQL Server 2008. Specifically, when Crystal Reports is connected to a SQL Server 2008 database it will serve the report correctly, but invisibly it will also generate an error log in SQL Server. Although insignificant…