MZ
After approximately 20 years, I finally found the meaning of ‘MZ’: the string that appears in the beginning of every DOS/Windows/.NET executable. It stands for “Mark Zbikowski“, the architect in […]
Friendly Error Messages
I just accidently gave .EXE extension to a file that was actually a .ZIP archive and tried to run it on Windows 7. What error do I get? Lo and […]
DLL Hell in JQuery Land
I am trying to build a simple web application based on grids. Like, have this widget occupy 1/3 of the screen on bottom, that one one line of large bold […]
Handling Exceptions in Plugins Hosted in an AppDomain
Scenario: You have a shell application that loads plugins. For isolation, each plugin is loaded in its own AppDomain. Question: If plugin causes an exception, how do you prevent it […]
Left-Handed Redheads of MySql
I have just received an e-mail in my work inbox titled “calling all women of SharePoint”, that started with the words “Working in the male-dominated IT industry isn’t easy”. It […]
How to Send More than 4000 Characters from CLR Stored Proc
I was sending some debug output from my CLR stored procedure via SqlPipe.Send() method, and suddenly I received this exception: System.ArgumentException: Message length 4474 exceeds maximum length supported of 4000. […]
NuGet: How to Install a Package in 19 Easy Steps
If they tell you the machines will outsmart us very soon, don’t believe it. Here’s why. Tonight I was trying to add “Unity” dependency injection framework to my .NET 4 […]
Random Notes on MDX Filtering
1. Filter() and IIF work funny in the columns hierarchy. Consider this: SELECT FILTER([MarketValue], [MarketValue] >1000) ON COLUMNS, [Region].[Region].[Region] ON ROWS FROM [MyCube] In this case the MarketValue in red […]
SSRS Production Deployment, Part 3
Deploying Reports Download code. In Part 2 we talked about deploying SSRS data sources. Now we are ready reports. Reports are deployed using rs.CreateReport() method. It accepts array of bytes […]
SSRS Production Deployment, Part 2
In Part 1 we discussed that in development environemnt we deploy reports by simply clicking “Deploy” in BIDS, but this won’t work in production. To deploy reports in production we […]