By storing KPIs in Analysis Services, the KPIs become reusable by SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Excel, and custom code.  This article demonstrates a few examples for managing KPIs within Analysis Services. Required References: 1: using System; 2: using System.IO; ... [More]

Now that we have covered programmatically managing KPIs within Analysis Services, let’s look at pulling KPIs into a dataset. I am using this dataset in a datagrid and Telerik grid to display a KPI List.  This grid is then used within PerformancePoint and filtered by organization and desired t... [More]

I have worked with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 since it was in Beta, and with all the functionality it provides, every client has asked for at least one custom control.  And since most of the data used within PerformancePoint is in Analysis Services, it becomes imperative that progra... [More]

I have not updated my code to the latest Castle Windsor.  I am still using the the previous version.  With it you can setup your .config files to be parsed automatically and stored for you.  All you have to do is setup an interface and initialize a class.  From that point on if y... [More]

A few months back I wrote a web service that generates lottery numbers for the Texas Lottery.  The concept is that the numbers are not truly random; otherwise, there would be a uniform spread for the numbers.  Also, some numbers are hot numbers and you are more likely to pick a winner usin... [More]

Every where you turn these days, you are hearing more and more about Twitter. Twitter provides a way for individual’s to follow anyone from their neighbor, kid’s teacher, as well as today’s celebrities. Twitter also provides way to reach a number of people from friends, clients, co-worker in a matter of minutes. Thus it is important for companies to leverage this great innovation to their advantage. [More]

Many developers like to stick their data inside the database and load their combo boxes and other application data from it.  There are lots of reasons for doing so such as localizing your data or maybe you can't write to the local file system for whatever reason. In my case the local file system is off limits. [More]

Ever wonder how some sites can have a cool icon in the top corner of the browsers, and yours only has the default browser icon   VS.     Would you website look better, if you could have you logo/icon displayed all the time? Well, it is simple.  This article outlines th... [More]

Do you use database projects in Visual Studio? If not, then now is a good time to start. It is the best way I have found to source control my databases without actually sticking the database file itself in the repository. It is very simple to add to your solution and creates a default directory structure for your create scripts, change scripts and queries. Best of all the project will be recognized by source control and added to the source code repository. This means you can keep versioned scripts for maintainability. It also gives you the option to do the dreaded rollback! [More]

  This post comes from here...  I claim none of it.  I am just copying it for my own reference.   NUnit "Quick and Dirty" Tutorial In the style of the JUnit Quick and Dirty Tutorial, here's a similar tutorial for NUnit. I'm assuming that you're familiar with C#/.NET, download... [More]