Sol Web Solutions Blog

Ever wonder how you can calculate the age of the list items in SharePoint?  The Today() function is not allowed in calculated fields, so what's the trick?

Upon trying to transfer several Foxpro files into SQL server, an SSIS package was failing.  Error message of:
Selected Data Source is on a remote computer.  The bulk insert failed.  We fixed it, but how????

A user reported a bug in an ASP.NET web application, and after running several test scenarios it was difficult to see where the bug actually resided.  Of course after much "hair pulling" and "keyboard banging", we turned to the debugger.

Getting SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services series chart line to start @ 0 (trying to mimic another chart in another application that does the same thing) was a bit of a challenge.  The line chart series is being used for accounting and starts at the January amount, say $10,000 for the first month data value.

After much searching to try to get around the division by zero issue, I had to create a custom code function for both the report rendering and interactive column sorting to work.