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Welcome to North West Business Intelligence

North West Business Intelligence is a new company founded in 2008 providing Business Intelligence Consultancy Services to small to medium sized businesses in the North West.  Founded by dedicated IT Professionals after a number of years in the IT industry to better focus on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing in the Financial Services Sector.

Specialising in Business Intelligence and, in particular, solutions based on Microsoft products has allowed the business to focus on a core set of solutions based around Microsoft SQL Server and supporting Business Intelligence products such as Cognos, Business Objects, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office Sharepoint.

 Available from short consultancies to long term project work, don't hesitate to contact us using the contact form.

 

Tip - Can't delete folder called Con

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It shouldn't be possible but I've been stuck with another niggling problem for months, a folder on my desktop I just can't delete.  It happens to be called Con which I thought nothing of, it being an abbreviation of Coniston, the name of one of the projects I'm working on.

Tried a million and one tips, uninstalled various utilities, installed others, safe mode, dos prompt, nothing worked always coming up with the error, "Specified Device Name Is Invalid" or "Directory or file does not exist".  Nice message Microsoft, it blatantly does exist, it's there in front of me!

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ASP.NET - Gridview RowDataBound event not firing properly

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Another quick tip to save someone an afternoon!

When using alternating rows in a gridview, don't rely on the e.Row.Rowstate value being DataControlRowState.Edit or 4, if it's an alternate row it'll be 5 which doesn't even exist in the DataControlRowState enumeration!  So check for both values if you want to do something particular to a row that's in edit mode.

Andy

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 October 2009 14:04 )
 

Solved (sort of) Windows 7 / Vista / XP - Show Window Contents While Dragging

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Final update, and a solution of sorts.

Nothing I've tried fixes the problem in the proper way, i.e. preventing drag windows from being disabled in the first place.  It just so happens that one of my searches stumbled upon a simple exe (author currently unknown) that resets the option.

So I've caved, I've downloaded this exe and used task scheduler to run it every ten minutes.

You know what, I'm torn, this fixes the problem but it's just wrong, this is the only problem I've not been able to fix correctly and it still winds me up!

Andy, 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:03 )
 

Internet Explorer 8 and Google Maps

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One current project for North West Business Intelligence is a Google Maps application with a great deal of interactive database driven ajax goodness.  Spent a while developing the database layer trying to avoid getting caught up in the interface even though, in this case, that's the really interesting bit.

Finally got around to a little bit of interface just to test the back-end you understand and came across a pair of very strange problems.  Everything was working fine except for adding markers to the map by clicking.  Most of the code for that element was written a couple of years ago and had been rock solid.

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