Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:33 PM
by
michael.k.campbell
AspAlliance Article
If you're in to SQL Server Reporting Services, but want better/richer
functionality in Word and Excel - then zip out and skim my article at the
ASPAlliance: Using
SoftArtisans' OfficeWriter with SQL Server Reporting Services 2005.
The article provides an overview of what OfficeWriter brings to the table,
and includes a number of quick-and-dirty samples showing how you can EASILY
leverage 'native' Office functionality within your SSRS Reports.
If it doesn't show in the article, I'm very impressed with the functionality
that OfficeWriter provides - and with how cleanly it integrates with SQL Server
Reporting Services.
Disclosure: I didn't get paid, compensated, or anything
for writing this article. Heck, I didn't even get a free copy of the software -
though I should have, it's great stuff. (SoftArtisans contacted me a while
back to see if I'd be interested in looking at OfficeWriter after I posted
some SSRS related stuff on the SQLAdvice.com lists. I took a peek at the
product, LIKED what I saw, and the rest is a terribly booooring article to
anyone who's not interested....)