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I am really impressed with myself… I now have software working that will automatically generate reports for me and email them out. Even better it will combine a number of reports into the same email, and send them all out at once. The software is not yet finished but it is working. I think that there is some debugging to be done, particularly to make it bulletproof. <\/p>\n

When I was telling a client I was working on this, his comment was immediatly ‘So, you have heard about CRD<\/a>‘ which he assumed I was using. This program apparently generates nice reports, which is fine if you are connecting straight to database tables. But since I am not I am unable to use this program. Licensing wise it is actually cheaper to do things how I am right now since Crystal Reports has some interesting licensing terms. <\/p>\n

Whilst working on this I found a couple of interesting VB.NET functions…
Dim strFilename As String = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName()
system.io.file.delete
The first creates a unique filename for you to use as a temporary file. The second deletes a file. Useful. <\/p>\n

Some strange news from the USA. According to Kron<\/a>, details of some items on the US list of ‘Critical Infrastructure’ as defined by the Department of Homeland Security. Sources indicate that Emerald Hills Golfland, a three-acre theme park with two miniature golf courses had been added to the list. Nice to know that Put Put Golf is critical!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am really impressed with myself… I now have software working that will automatically generate reports for me and email them out. Even better it will combine a number of reports into the same email, and send them all out …<\/p>\n

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