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Treeview height woes?

Lohan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:14:00 +0000

Use TVM_SETITEMHEIGHT to set a Treeview’s node height. It cannot be done individually, though, so use with care.

CreateProcess tip

Lohan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:54:00 +0000

CreateProcess tip: Remember to double-up slashes when passing to Process.Start (eg \\My Documents\\Life.txt).

[Update 2008/07/27] I have no clue why I said that — it won’t compile anyway? Oh well.

Common .NET Naming Conventions

Lohan — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:49:00 +0000

One of the better rundown of .NET naming convensions out there. NET Naming Conventions and Programming Standards (C#.Net, VB.Net, J#.Net) and Best Practices – irritatedVowel.com Programming

SSAS "attribute key cannot be found" message.

Lohan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:24:00 +0000

SSAS "attribute key cannot be found" message.
Originally uploaded by lohanj.

Here’s how to interpret the SSAS “attribute key cannot be found” message.

Example error:

Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found: Table:

dbo_vw_cs_categorysales, Column: cs_sto_id, Value: 50. Errors in the OLAP

storage engine: The record was skipped because the attribute key was not

found. Attribute: Store of Dimension: dimStores from Database: b2s, Cube:

CatSales Lab, Measure Group: Vw Cs Categorysales, Partition: Vw Cs

Categorysales, Record: 17.

Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found:

Table: dbo_vw_cs_categorysales, Column: cs_sto_id, Value: 50. Errors in the

OLAP storage engine: The record was skipped because the attribute key was

not found. Attribute: Store of Dimension: dimStores from Database: b2s,

Cube: CatSales Lab, Measure Group: Vw Cs Categorysales, Partition: Vw Cs

Categorysales, Record: 17. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The process

operation ended because the number of errors encountered during processing

reached the defined limit of allowable errors for the operation. Errors in

the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while processing the ‘Vw Cs

Categorysales’ partition of the ‘Vw Cs Categorysales’ measure group for the

‘CatSales Lab’ cube from the b2s database.

Solution – see picture:

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SMSNotifier

Lohan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:54:00 +0000

SMS Notifier watches for incoming calls that are missed (i.e. not answered). Depending on configuration settings it does the following things:

Send an SMS message to the caller (configurable contents), possibly containing also the end time of current appointment (configurable).
Adds an item to calendar (containing the caller info)…

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