If I save an image at 2x2, it will print at 96dpi, which looks noticeably blurry when printed and on screen. If I save the image as 6x6, then shrink...

All the images are stored at a larger size than their intended dimensions and are and shrunk down when rendered on the report as a way of increasing their resolution....

This error message seems to have gone away after restarting Visual Studio. Perhaps it was some caching issue.

Does anyone know of a good way to avoid hard-coding the database connection string?

MyConnection = New SqlConnection("server=localhost;uid=USERNAME;pwd=PASSWORD;database=RSStyles")

It would be preferable to make use of an existing shared database connection, or...

I don't think your questions relates to the original topic.

You should post it as a different thread.

Actually, in SSMS (SQL 2005/2008), if you use the Filter capability in the ObjectExplorer and enter Student in the name you will get all of the above tables. I use...

I find it interesting that the most cited reason for prefixes is searching through the project to find references. It seems to me that if this is the problem...

Likewise it is pointless to name a table tblStudents, but perhaps useful to use relStudentsClasses (I say perhaps, because if you have tables Students, Classes, and StudentsClasses, it seems clear...

I find that adding table prefixes helps from a developer standpoint. One of the most powerful tools that a developer has is the search command in an IDE. If a...

It is a product created by the author of the article. He is selling it through his personal Web site.

I find it unusual that the requirement of SQL Server 2008 is not mentioned until you actually try to install the utility.

mike.clayton007 (11/10/2008)

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I am new to SSIS and VB. The article was very usefull. But I was unable to run the package using WINRAR.

Will this work for WINRAR (may be...

I tried running the VBS code directly as an ActiveX Script and it didn't work. I read a discussion thread from someone trying to do exactly what I was trying...

If I had gone with the Windows task scheduler route it would have saved me a lot of time. My thinking was that it would help if all the scheduled...

I would add that I'm positive that 7-zip can do recursive compression. I have done this many times on the command line. The argument for recursion I believe is "-r"