Foreword

The first time I met Brian Larson was in late 2001. At that time, we had been working on Reporting Services for about a year. We were looking for someone to help write the PDF rendering extension as we were extremely busy with the core reporting processing engine and server infrastructure.

I had known Marty Voegole, Brian's coworker at Superior Consulting, from some previous projects he had worked on for Microsoft. We contacted Marty and asked whether he was interested in doing some work for a new product. The code had to be written in C# using the .NET Framework, both of which had been recently released. The catch was that we were still over a year away from going public with Reporting Services, so they wouldn't be able to talk about ...

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