Profitbase Studio / Server and SQL Server dependencies

Profitbase Studio / Server is using parts of the SQL Server API directly, so it is required that these components are installed on the same computer as the Profitbase Studio and/or Profitbase Studio Server. Although these requirements are listed in the System Requirements document, they may from time to time (using clever ninja tactics) avoid […]

Extracting MSI files from the installer .exe

Profitbase software is normally installed by running an installer .exe-file. The .exe-files act as bootstrappers for reading the content of the .MSI-file, checking if the required version of the Windows Installer is installed on the system, and then launches the .MSI that takes care of the actual installation of the product.
If […]

Activity Start Interval in the Parallel Activity

A Data Flow Parallel Activity has a setting called “Activity Start Interval”. Activity Start Interval specifies the time in seconds elapsed between the start of each activity. For example, if the value is 0.2, the activities will start at a 0.2 seconds interval. The reason you’d want to use this setting is that on some […]

Getting a security error when importing or exporting templates

You may get the following error message when importing or exporting templates to the Profitbase Template Store.

“An error occurred when verifying the security for the message”
or a message similar to this
“The security timestamp is invalid because its creation time (‘8/262008 1:45:51 PM’) is in the future”
If you get this error message, please make sure that your Date and […]

Setting the Run As property to SQL Authentication gives “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error message

When setting the Run As property to SQL Authentication, you may get the following error message when you click the User Name text box: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”. 
This is caused by a bug in .NET Framework 3.5 (SP1), but is reported to be fixed in .NET 4.0.
To work around the issue, you […]