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Featured Articles (updated 7/27/13)

Aggregations in SSAS

By Yogish Bhat
July 27, 2013

Anyone who is developing the SSAS solution for the first time may expect to see lightning fast query response once the solution is deployed. When a cube is built, by default it does not contain any aggregation defined on measure groups. The query requests are satisfied by the partition data and data is aggregated based on the dimension attribute hierarchy or user hierarchy, query requests can take a while since no aggregation...

Small Basic: How to Make a Turtle Maze Game

By Nonki Takahashi
July 23, 2013

I wrote a Turtle Maze Game as a Small Basic program. In this article, I'd like to introduce how to create this kind of program. I wrote it in three phases. Firstly I wrote a program just creates and shows a maze. Secondly I wrote an AI (Artificial Intelligence) which solve the maze. At last, I wrote an UI (user interface) to battle with the AI. The following description shows the details of these three phases...

BizTalk: Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task

By El Bo
July 20, 2013

If you've ever gotten a phone call at 2 am asking you to figure out why a system is down, you'll appreciate the utility of self-healing systems. With a little work with WMI we can apply this concept to BizTalk. This article covers how to do this for BizTalk host instances, but the same techniques can be applied to receive locations and send ports. Why do host instances go down in the first place? BizTalk sits atop SQL Server, and it's very clingy...

Uploading (and Resizing) Images to a SharePoint Picture Library via a Webpart

By Matthew Yarlett
July 14, 2013

Getting a file to upload to SharePoint is very easy; essentially it involves adding an asp:FileUpload control to your webpart and adding a button to click on (to upload the selected file!). In this example we're going to create a visual webpart that allows a user to upload an image to SharePoint. During the upload process, the image dimensions are checked, and if the image's width or height exceeds 300px, we'll resize the image...

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