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SQL Reporting Services: A radically new approach
We have been used to traditional report writers for many years now. In this era of thin client, multi-tier, object oriented, service based architecture, the good old report writers have remained more or less similar.

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Creating owner-drawn menus
Most of the times menu items are strings, but sometimes pictures make more sense than text strings. For example, a color menu should show colors rather than text strings containing names of various colors. It would make more sense for the user if colors like magenta and cyan are shown as they are going to look, rather than as strings saying “Cyan” and “Magenta”. If the colors were shown, their meaning would be crystal clear.