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Excerpt from Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

by Paul Turley, Hitachi Consulting

Report Recipes

As we have endeavored to solve various business problems, we've learned to do some interesting things with Reporting Services. On consulting engagements, I often find myself in front of a client who is asking questions like "can you do this or that?" Almost inevitably, the answer is "yes," but the question becomes what the best method would be to meet the requirement. With a little outside-the-box thinking, a lot of interesting things are possible. This may involve some custom programming, embedding report items or using customer application components in concert with Reporting Services.

Excerpt from Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML

by Thiru Thangarathinam

When you communicate with a Web service using SOAP, the SOAP message that is sent to the Web service follows a standard format. The XML document inside the SOAP message is structured into two main parts: the optional headers and the mandatory body. The Body element comprises the data specific to the message. The optional Header element can contain additional information not directly related to the particular message. Each child element of the Header element is called a SOAP header.