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Today our QA team reported that they were unable to add requirements (user stories) to a test plan in Microsoft Test Manager. When clicking the Add Requirement to Plan button, they were getting a message box that complained of a 403 error. Related symptoms to this condition are:

I’ve decided that the best way to spend a day of 104 degree weather is to sit inside and write a blog post!  I’ve been working with MDX quite a bit recently and thought I’d share a few more bits of knowledge I’ve acquired….

I recently encountered a business scenario involving calculated members in a cube that I thought is worth sharing.

One type of error that arises occasionally during SSAS cube processing is the ‘duplicate attribute key’ error.  The error message is similar to the following:

There is a bug in the Visual Studio 11 beta installer which incorrectly sets the path to the Strong Name tool (sn.exe) in the code contracts targets file. When building an application with Code Contracts enabled, and the assembly is signed, you will get an error 9009 from MS Build, indicating a 3rd party tool (CCRewriter in this instance) failed. This is because the CCRewriter can not find the sn.exe.