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 read this post by Mikesdotnetting a few days ago when I was trying to implement a Tag Cloud for our open source forum project SubForum. Although it was a good post and got me started on how to do it, I found it a bit complex for what I needed. One of the complications that I saw was obviously the ... [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]

Every site you browse now days has RSS feeds. Using site content from other sites via RSS feeds, helps keep your content fresh. This means that you are leveraging other’s time and knowledge to build your site’s value. My partner and I wanted to leverage our blogging effort in our corporate website, to display the latest blog entries for visitors to see, as well as making them aware that we have a blog. However we ran into a problem our blog is on another domain. [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]