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I'm sure, like me, you've seen plenty of production web.config files with debug=true set. Most senior ASP.NET developers will recognize that debug should be set to false for the production build. However, this small detail is often over looked...
Windows Services are similar to UNIX daemons. They are applications that start when Windows boots and continue running until Windows shuts down. A Windows Service might be used to implement a timer that continually polls a source looking for new data. When new data is found an import process might be kicked off. .NET has made developing Windows Services much easier than past methods. As mentioned above a Windows Service is an application and as such requires installation. In the remainder of this post I would like to propose an alternative to developing a Windows Services for cases when an ASP.NET Application has already been developed....
I have use the Report Viewer Control included in Visual Studio 2005 to embed reports within our Smart Client. The control allows me to create professional reports without the use of a third party tools. Plus I can always scale up to Reporting Services should the need arrise.
There is a Report Viewer Redistributable available for download. However, the Redistributable is an MSI and installs all components in the GAC. This action requires administrator permissions which is not a choice due to our corporate security policy.
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