So I had a problem where something was not working in a staging environment but fine in dev. So I wanted to compare about 300 tables in a database to a different copy of it to see if a table was empty somewhere that was causing the error.  Still haven't found the error yet. Also, the reason I'm doing so is because I'm working with a proprietary API library that manages to obfuscate which tables are being called.

I was given a task of converting some aging reports to SSRS. Now as you know, you can't really do grouping in SQL based on a range. So something like that needs to be implemented in SSRS in the report writter instead. I have figured out that code for you. :)

First we need to copy this code into the report. From the report properties the first box will be for adhoc vb functions to add to the report. In general these functions should be added to a class and linked, either way this is the function you need.

Public Function GetBucket(parameter As parameter, days As Integer) As String
On Error GoTo ProcError

 Dim s As String
 Dim i As Integer
 s = ""
 
 If parameter.IsMultiValue Then
  For i = 0 To parameter.Count - 2
   If (parameter.Value(i) < days and parameter.Value(i+1) > days) Then
        GetBucket = Str(parameter.Value(i)) + " -" + Str(parameter.Value(i+1))
        Exit Function
    End If
  Next
 End If

 GetBucket = parameter.Value(parameter.Count - 1)  + "+"
 Exit Function

ProcError:
GetBucket = Err.Description
End Function

After that, we will define a calculate field in our dataset.

=Code.GetBucket(Parameters!Bucket,DateDiff("d",Fields!DateToAgeOn.Value,Today()))

Then set up a parameter, type integer, and allow mulitple values. Then we can just set some default values for our ranges.

Here is macro code for outlook to save all attachments of all selected email. It will prompt for a save directory and allow renaming of duplicate files. This just saved me probably a full day at work of saving all files since Outlook does not have this feature built in. Special thanks to Arcane Code

Option Explicit

Public Sub SaveAttachments()

  'Note, this assumes you are in the a folder with e-mail messages when you run it.
  'It does not have to be the inbox, simply any folder with e-mail messages
  
  Dim App As New Outlook.Application
  Dim Exp As Outlook.Explorer
  Dim Sel As Outlook.Selection
  
  Dim AttachmentCnt As Integer
  Dim AttTotal As Integer
  Dim MsgTotal As Integer
  
  Dim outputDir As String
  Dim outputFile As String
  Dim fileExists As Boolean
  Dim cnt As Integer
  
  'Requires reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime (SCRRUN.DLL)
  Dim fso As FileSystemObject
    
  Set Exp = App.ActiveExplorer
  Set Sel = Exp.Selection
  Set fso = New FileSystemObject

  outputDir = GetOutputDirectory()
  If outputDir = "" Then
    MsgBox "You must pick an directory to save your files to. Exiting SaveAttachments.", vbCritical, "SaveAttachments"
    Exit Sub
  End If
    
  'Loop thru each selected item in the inbox
  For cnt = 1 To Sel.Count
    'If the e-mail has attachments...
    If Sel.Item(cnt).Attachments.Count > 0 Then
      MsgTotal = MsgTotal + 1
      'For each attachment on the message...
      For AttachmentCnt = 1 To Sel.Item(cnt).Attachments.Count
        'Get the attachment
        Dim att As Attachment
        Set att = Sel.Item(cnt).Attachments.Item(AttachmentCnt)
        outputFile = att.fileName
        fileExists = fso.fileExists(outputDir + outputFile)
        Do While fileExists = True
          outputFile = InputBox("The file " + outputFile _
            + " already exists in the destination directory of " _
            + outputDir + ". Please enter a new name, or hit cancel to skip this one file.", "File Exists", outputFile)
          'If user hit cancel
          If outputFile = "" Then
            'Exit leaving fileexists true. That will be a flag not to write the file
            Exit Do
          End If
          fileExists = fso.fileExists(outputDir + outputFile)
        Loop
        
        'Save it to disk if the file does not exist
        If fileExists = False Then
          att.SaveAsFile (outputDir + outputFile)
          AttTotal = AttTotal + 1
        End If
      Next
    End If
  Next
  
  'Clean up
  Set Sel = Nothing
  Set Exp = Nothing
  Set App = Nothing
  Set fso = Nothing
  
  'Let user know we are done
  Dim doneMsg As String
  doneMsg = "Completed saving " + Format$(AttTotal, "#,0") + " attachments in " + Format$(MsgTotal, "#,0") + " Messages."
  MsgBox doneMsg, vbOKOnly, "Save Attachments"
  
  Exit Sub
  
ErrorHandler:

  Dim errMsg As String
  errMsg = "An error has occurred. Error " + Err.Number + " " + Err.Description
  Dim errResult As VbMsgBoxResult
  errResult = MsgBox(errMsg, vbAbortRetryIgnore, "Error in Save Attachments")
  Select Case errResult
    Case vbAbort
      Exit Sub
      
    Case vbRetry
      Resume
      
    Case vbIgnore
      Resume Next
      
  End Select
    
End Sub

Public Function GetOutputDirectory() As String
 
  Dim retval As String 'Return Value
  
  Dim sMsg As String
  Dim cBits As Integer
  Dim xRoot As Integer
  
  Dim oShell As Object
  Set oShell = CreateObject("shell.application")

  sMsg = "Select a Folder To Output The Attachments To"
  cBits = 1
  xRoot = 17
  
  On Error Resume Next
      Dim oBFF
      Set oBFF = oShell.BrowseForFolder(0, sMsg, cBits, xRoot)
      If Err Then
        Err.Clear
        GetOutputDirectory = ""
        Exit Function
      End If
  On Error GoTo 0
  
  If Not IsObject(oBFF) Then
    GetOutputDirectory = ""
    Exit Function
  End If
  
  If Not (LCase(Left(Trim(TypeName(oBFF)), 6)) = "folder") Then
    retval = ""
  Else
    retval = oBFF.self.Path
    
    'Make sure there's a \ on the end
    If Right(retval, 1) <> "\" Then
      retval = retval + "\"
    End If
  End If
  
  GetOutputDirectory = retval
  
End Function

Randomly got this on the new Digg page. Hilarious!

Let me start off by apologizing for the older themes. I'm still new to CSS and web design.  I had put a little bit of code at the top of all the old CSS files to reset margins and padding on all the elements.  After research, I've determind that was a bad idea.  I've removed it from all the themes and made adjustments to a few classes to keep layout the same. I did only a quick spot check though, so I may have missed something.

If you have an old theme, I strongly recommend you update it.  Or if you notice anything really wierd, let me know and I will be glad to help in my free time.

Thanks

Good news everybody, I'm releasing a modified version of an older theme.  It has a little bit of CSS3 in it, but nothing to serious.  It will still look fine on Internet Explorer if you're unfortunate enough to still be running it.  I did however move some things around and changed up the comment layout for this one.  There is also a special surprise for administators!

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Nothing can explain this video, I think.

Blog Engine was updated to v1.6 last night.  This morning I made the CSS changes and a few edits to all the themes.  All the downloads how now been updated to v1.6 and removed the 1.5 versions.

Hey everyone, it's a new year and that means it's time to crank out some more themes. I'm going to start categorizing these themes a little better. Eventually I still want to do more with this site, but this is easier since I'm doing it partially for work anyways. Enjoy!

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Hey everyone.  In keep with my random release schedule, here is another theme.  I tried to keep this one to a more minimal look. Again, I'm bad at naming these things. So I just called it SimpleGrey. It's modified/ported from themeforest.com link

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