Thursday, March 28, 2013

SSRS - Display interactive report on one single page

Want to have your SSRS report show on a single page without any page breaks?

The way to do this is click on empty space of your report and then in the properties window select the interactive size and set it to '0'




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Monday, March 04, 2013

Windows 7 SDK Installation Failure

Issue: 

When installing the Windows 7 SDK the install fails and rolls back the installation before showing a failure message

You find this in the log file

SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\qjwp\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_0f8d776d-1dab-4e38-b30f-ff0140db5234_SFX.log

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation failed with return code 5100

Fix: 
Uninstall visual C++ 2010 Resdistributable  2010 ( both X86 and X64 Versions). Then attempt the install again. 




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Unable to install VMware tools on Windows 7 X64 - Progress bar never finishes loading

Issue:
I was getting an issue trying to install the VMware Tools on Windows 7 X64.  I would mount the Virtual CD and the program would load but the progress bar would only load to about 90% and never complete.

Resolution:
Uninstall the C++ 2010 and 2008 redistributables and try again.

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