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To show a field only on the first page of a report, go to the field properties and select <Expression…>: Then enter the following expression – this will check if the page number is 1, and if so, display the field: =iif(Globals!PageNumber = 1, FALSE, TRUE)
Power BI Desktop (formerly Power BI Designer) is the tool that allows us to create Power BI visualizations. It is a stand-alone Windows Desktop application (a Mac version has been submitted to the Ideas section of the Power BI forums – see here). To install the tool, go to https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/ and download the latest application. You have 2 options to install. The first is by clicking Download, which will open the Microsoft Store. … Continue reading Installing Power BI Desktop
The Dynamics CRM 2016 SDK contains a plugin sample. The code is located here: SDK\SampleCode\CS\Plug-ins\AccountNumberPlugin.cs I’m going to go through step by step how to create this plugin and upload it to Dynamics CRM, then how to debug the plugin. In the example I will connect to a Dynamics CRM 2016 Online instance. Firstly, open and build the sample plugin solution in Visual Studio: Next, open the plugin registration tool. This is located … Continue reading Creating and Debugging a Plugin in Dynamics CRM 2016
You may come across this error when a server or workstation gets out of sync with the domain controller: “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”. One way to resolve this is to rejoin the machine with the domain. However this can cause other issues. An easier way toresolve this, is to first log into the machine as a local administrator and then run Windows PowerShell … Continue reading Trust Relationship Primary Domain Error
Here we will go throgh the steps to upgrade your Node server. First, open PowerShell as Administrator. We will check the version of the server currently installed, with the command: node -v Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force Then run: npm install -g npm-windows-upgrade Next, run: npm-windows-upgrade Select a version: You will see: And once complete:
To install Node on Windows, first go to the Node website and select the version to download. We will install Windows 64 bit: https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ This downloads the MSI file. Open the file: Click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Select all the required components, including NPM Package Manager. Click Next: Click Next: Click Finish: With NPM installed, you have access to thousands of packages. You can read more about NPM at … Continue reading Install Node on Windows
Function Overloading is the ability to define two or more functions with the same name that have a different signature, i.e. a number and/or different types of parameters/arguments. For example: function DoSomething(a) function DoSomething(a,b) function DoSomething(a,b,c) In JavaScript, there is no function overloading. There is however behavior regarding sending different parameters, and there is a pattern we can use to handle function overloading. First, consider the case above. If we … Continue reading Function Overloading in JavaScript
Let’s say we have the following WPF form that has 3 rows and 2 columns: If we wanted to give the user the ability to resize the columns, we can use a GridSplitter. Under WPF Controls, you will see GridSplitter: First, we will add an additional colum. This will hold the splitter: Next, we will move our textboxes to the right column, so it frees the middle column for resizing: … Continue reading WPF – Grid Splitter
In a WPF grid, we can define columns and rows. To do this, create a new WPF app in Visual Studio: You will see below: Select Layout in Properties. You will see Column Definitions and Row Definitions: Select Column Definitions. Click Add: Here you can add a column definition, which is defining a column, just as you would in a table for example: Add a second column definition: You will … Continue reading WPF – Column and Row Definitions
When you create WPF apps in Visual Studio, you will see an extra toolbar on your WPF forms: This is the UI Debugging Tools for XAML in Visual Studio. Options include: Go to Live Visual Tree Enable Selection Display Layout Adorners Track Focused Element To disable this, in Visual Studio select Tools->Options: Debugging->General->Enable UI Debugging Tools for XAML: Rerun and you will now not see the tools: