Long live SVG

SVG short for scalable vector graphics is thriving. The 7th International SVG Conference is going to be held in Mountain View, CA between Oct 2 to 4, 2009

XAML is proprietary and SVG is not, that is good enough for most folks these days. Last year the conference  was in Germany and before that in Japan. Well Google (Google Maps and Google DOcs) is behind it and is natively supported by iPhone. Most browsers except you know which does not support it.

How good are these messages? Ref:SQL Server 2008

I am trying to attach data to my Analysis Server 2008 and find confusing and erroneous messages. How good are these?

1. Trying to attach

I choose to attach using the menu, Attach

Click (...) Browse for Remote Folder Window gets displayed. There were two files displayed neither of which I am interested in.

I see at the bottom of this window, the following:

To add or remove folders to this window
it is suggested to edit the
'AllowedBrowsingFolders' property.

It turns out that there is no such property

Figure 1.

I tried to locate the file with specific format for attching data to the Analysis Server, look what kind of a message I get.

Figure 2

Picture from a 2 column report in SSRS 2008

Here is a picture of a report exported as PDF. I will follow this up with a full how-to article when I find some time.

SuperPreview partially fixed

I ranted on SuperPreview having a bug. This has been recently fixed and I got a new DLL emailed to me from one of Microsoft's people. It is better than the previous one. The web pages come up slowly. Also I am not quite sure that the IE8 browser in the SuperPreview is really what it is supposed to be.

Test: I tried to bring up a web page with web slice implemented from my intranet site and the feature was missing in SuperPreview.

Web page on IE8

Web page inside SuperPreview Left: IE8  Right: IE6
No difference between the two versions

This is not a issue:
The window close control is now a red drop-down which is a red line before dropping down. Looks colorful but does not fit to Microsoft's time honored standard GUI conventions.

Code Camp Philly April 2009 De Vry University

A scene captured with AT & T's Built-in camera.

The cafeteria was over flowing. Rooms for lectures were small and many had to sit on floor or, lean against the wall. No pain, No gain.

It was a very interesting experience and I may go again for the next one.