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Figure 9-46.
The Dimension Designer tab
Building the SSAS Project
Creating SSAS dimensions, data source views, and data sources all generate XML files. The format of these XML
files are not compatible with SSAS. Therefore, they must be converted before uploading them to the server.
Building an SSAS project in Visual Studio combines each of the individual XML files into one master file and
converts it to a compatible XMLA format. Once that is complete, it can then be uploaded to the SSAS server
during deployment.
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We discuss building and deploying projects in Chapter
10
.
For now, we are using this feature to check for
errors within the dimensions.
Note
You can build a Visual Studio project using the build menu item (Figure
9-47
). While building your project,
errors in the dimension will be reported, and if errors exist, the build process will fail. You must resolve these
errors and build the project once more before you can upload any of your project files to the server.
