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Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR
21 Nov
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Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR

Microsoft SQL server has built-in security which prevents the dynamic loading of serialized assemblies. What this basically means is that an assembly which utilises Webservices and XML.Serialization will dynamically load the code and compile at runtime and SQL Server doesn’t like that. This is the error you will receive when running functions or procedures in such an assembly. Read more about Getting XML Serialization and Webservices to work with SQL CLR …

Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way
03 Oct
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Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way

If you try and load the Microsoft Exchange Web Services dll (Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll) as an assembly in Microsoft SQL Server, you will receive errors relating to dependent assemblies not being loaded in the SQL catalog.
The MSDN article for CREATE ASSEMBLY states

Besides the root assembly specified by assembly_name, SQL Server tries to upload any assemblies that are referenced by the root assembly being uploaded. If a referenced assembly is already uploaded to the database because of an earlier CREATE ASSEMBLY statement, this assembly is not uploaded but is available to the root assembly. If a dependent assembly was not previously uploaded, but SQL Server cannot locate its manifest file in the source directory, CREATE ASSEMBLY returns an error.

BUT this isn’t always the case. The first rule is Read more about Adding the Microsoft Exchange Webservices SQL CLR assembly the easy way …

Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer
12 Jul
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Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer

I’ve been using GnuCash for some time and have found it to be a great product. Where GnuCash falls short, in my opinion, is it doesn’t provide for scheduled automatic invoice generation. Additionally creating custom invoices involves learning Scheme which personally I don’t have time to get my head around. So I set out to fix these 2 issues using the tools I know well, namely MySQL, perl, and good old HTML. This post will cover custom invoice generation to html and pdf, and emailing the results to the customer using a template. GnuCash scheduled automatic invoice creation will be covered in another post in the near future. Read more about Gnucash with MySQL: Creating custom invoices with PDF output and template based email to the customer …