My First Article in Code Project

My First Article in Code Project here

It is talking about managing SSAS Cube Roles from C#

Pivot Viewer

I am new to Silverlight, but I tried the Pivot Viewer to display lists from Sharepoint. the task seems fine unless:

• make a dynamic list
• problem with images

the first one I got this article which is quite powerful . so it solved me Part one.

the second one I tried to understand why my images are not displayed, but when importing some images from the internet it works. I got an answer that these images that works are DZI (Deep Zoom Image). and there is a DZI Composer!! rocks... Hell no. the composer outputs a bunch of files to work for the concept of DZI.What I only need is one picture! Is this Hard :(

*DZI for simplicity, is making the image in layers so that it loads fast, and when zooming we can get the more detailed layers. 

I am trying to google around and there should be any luck.

Pivot Viewer now is good but it should be customeized. they will, but in next release.... 

Visual Studio Add-on

From alot of projects I figured out that Microsoft is missing a vital addon for its Solution Explorer Pane! that is expand/collapse feature.

This feature is vital when you are working in solutions each one consisting of more than 15 projects each project has folders and sometimes these folders contain folders :(

the problem when you want to reach a file you will manually collapse all those nodes then find your item. the worst thing when you are debugging and opened a file from outside the solution to read something then close it ......................... Visual studio behavior is miserable, it will open all the projects tree nodes, then you want to collapse all of them to focus on the selected node only.

I searched about this add-on and found one http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2004/06/25/solvent---power-toys-for-visual-studio-.net.aspx but it is for Visual Studio 2003.

hmmmm, Ok no deal I created one for VS 2005 ta.da.

the link is here