So today I ran across the dreaded "Error: Subreport could not be shown." The odd thing was that the report and subreport executed fine in business intelligence studio, yet this problem arose when the report was deployed to the SSRS server. The key to broken subreports that execute fine in stand-alone mode are the report parameters passed in from the root report to the subreport. A little background: The subreport was being called iteratively in a table where each row in the table contained the...
Not very amazing or technical but thought I'd post a bit about it anyways. Anyone that gets asked how to show a repeating decimal in Word, for example representing the fraction 1/3 in decimal is 1.33333333 with 3 repeating to infinity. Normally there would be a line above the last 3 (the line is called a vinculum).
Now to show the 3 with a line above it in Microsoft Word you need to use a field code that superimposes one character over the other.
Press Ctrl-F9 to insert the field delimiters...
Eduardo is an architect and consultant with Daugherty Business Solutions. He recently started blogging. Check out his post on Habbits of Effective Architects. You can also see him give a talk on this post at this month's Chicago Architects Group meeting.
Happy blogging Eduardo...
Conquer Online - Game Review
Conquer Online, is a game that I have played for about three and a half years. I had 3 characters in all, two trojans which are characters which can hold two weapons, and i also had an archer - everyone knows what an archer is!
The environment of the game was wonderful, it is colorful and very Chinese related. Character customization is pretty amazing for a free of charge online game. At the beginning one chooses the type of character: trojan, archer, taiost or warrior,...
We are very pleased to be holding this meeting in cooperation with the Central Florida BizTalk User Group. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the latest version of BizTalk, is an exciting tool that all .NET application developers should know about. BizTalk fills two key business needs: enterprise application integration, and business process automation. This...
I'm going to PDC2008 in Los Angeles. I've never been before, but am told I will have a total nerdgasm. Several coworkers are going too, so I'll have some guidance.
I will try to post what I can, as often as I can, but we'll have to see (I'm not very good at keeping up with my blog).
Dave...
"Fix the Architecture" - Open Discussion We have a great group of members with a variety of experience, so bring your architecture problems and leverage those experiences and creativity to help solve them. This is an open discussion format and depending on how many people we have and how many problems we may split up into small groups or try to solve problems one at a time. Please bring your topics to discuss. We also have a backup topic of Tips for Performance in a Web Architecture. When...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 4
Breaking Inheritance
The owner has the permission to create unique permissions at the time you create a site. If you change your mind later, you have to break inheritance.
To stop inheriting permissions from a parent site:
1. Browse to the People and Groups page for a site
2. Click the site permissions header in the Quick Launch bar.
3. Choose Actions > Edit Permissions – a dialog box confirming that you wish to stop inheriting permissions...
Manning Publications has a program called MEAP. MEAP stands for Manning Early Access Program - basically buying a book as a PDF before the paper version is published, in fact, before it is even finished. Good for new technologies like ASP.NET MVC of Silverlight.
Now I know that electronic versions have a marginal cost compared to paper versions, but Manning are taking this to extreme levels;
In April, I bought the MEAP title, The Art of Unit Testing, $24.99
By August, the completion of...
Please join us on Thursday 10/16, at the Microsoft Bloomington office for our monthly MNSCUG meeting. This month we have Jim Thomson from Intel to provide an overview and demo of using SCCM SP1 and the new Out of Band management features that are possible on vPro enabled systems from 5:00-5:45. Following that, we will finish the night with a round table discussion. Since vPro and Power Management will be fresh in our minds, one topic I'd like to discuss is Software Delivery strategies and what...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 3
People and Groups
Site Settings > Users and Permissions > People and Groups
Group is a container for assigning permission levels to a user. Permission levels are a container for storing a set of individual permissions and these permissions are what give rights to a user.
Site Permissions section lets the admin/user view the permissions assigned to particular users and groups in the site. From here, one can create new permission levels.
Creating...
I’ll be honest that this did happen to me, and thankfully the MSDN straightened me out. For those of us who normally program for winforms, sometimes the switch to an ASP.NET project can prove to be a whole new world. For instance, I was working on a straightforward single page in ASP.NET 1.1 so that members of the same project could gather some information easily. The form itself had one field, and I wanted to ensure that the field was a number only. I added a RegularExpressionValidator and pointed...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 2
Dependencies and descriptions
Most of the permissions are dependent on other permissions. When choosing a permission which has dependencies on other permissions, these are automatically selected.
For permissions who have dependencies, visit the following link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101001491033.aspx#3
Tips on Administration of SharePoint Permissions
It is suggested that at the beginning one uses the standard...
Send Cookie in HTTP Header WebRequest
Problem: You are using a third-party web service to which you are connecting with your own web service. The third-party web service is divided into two phases. Phase 1 is dependent on nothing i.e. you just pass the parameters and the web service returns the details you would like. Phase 2 though is dependent on the first. The problem is that the second phase -- apart from the method parameters -- also requests that you pass on the JSessionID value which was...
The Ann Arbor Day of .NET is just over a week away! We have finalized the agenda and you can find it here:
http://www.dayofdotnet.org/AnnArbor/Fall2008/Agenda.aspx
There are a lot of great sessions and it is sure to be the best Ann Arbor Day of .NET yet. Hope to see you there...
What is ReMix?
A 48 hr conversation all about the ‘Next Web’, what it means today and the potential impact of technologies, tools and techniques for the future. Inspiring designers and developers to take the media they love to new levels of user experience.
ReMix UK 08 has ended, here are the recorded sessions for your viewing pleasure.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx...
Suppose you have three tables in your database where one of them specifies a many-to-many relationship between the other two (example from AdventureWorks):
Suppose also that you have a method such as GetVendors(int productID) that will retrieve all the vendors for a given product through the ProductVendors table (that is , the many-to-many table).
Now, if this method is exposed via a WCF service, when your client calls...
Thanks to everyone who voted for my 'Virtualisation for Developers' session at DDD7. I'm really looking forward to giving the presentation and by the end of November I should have some Hyper-V experiences to include as well as covering Virtual PC, Virtual Server, VMWare and VirtualBox.
What
DDD7 (www.developerday.co.uk)
When
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 9:00 to 17:00
Where
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So I got the below email on 10/1. (You can tell I am email backlogged) Hello Jason, Congratulations. You won 1st Prize in the September 2008 Contest. As you may know, a lot of people competed, but only a few won. Nicely done! Please also keep in mind that your prize is not just a stupid, geeky gift, but it's also a symbol to represent your contributions to the development community. When folks ask you how you won, you can tell them that it was by helping out other geeks. Be proud and...
In this issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeff Handley, Mike Snow, Laurence Moroney, Terence Tsang, and Jesse Liberty.
John Papa has Updated Sep 2008 MSDN Article Code for Silverlight 2 RC0.
Devexpress announced their AgDataGrid supports RC0
Alex Golesh reported Silverlight TreeView and String-To-PathGeometry Converter projects updated to RC0 syntax, plus he has some updates in them... this tree is very cool!
From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Library 1.0 Andrea Boschin has a project up...
Last night was quite a deep run through the things you can do with SharePoint's administration interface. The Colorado Springs SharePoint User Group was privileged to have local SharePoint MVP Gary Lapointe presenting on how he created his STSADM extensions (an add-on that you can find on CodePlex).
It was quite breathtaking to see the number of new extensions he has developed to extend the functionality of the out of the box STSADM utility that you and I use. To be exact he has added a whopping...
