Working through a Visual Studio Scrum implementation on a client site at the moment we noticed there seems to be a date format bug in the Sprint Burndown report in Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 RTW if you are in a non US locale.  This prevents the current sprint bring calculated and the report falls over with an error:

    Query execution failed for dataset ‘dsSprintsCurrent’. (rsErrorExecutingCommand)
    The conversion of a nvarchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.

My fix is in the RDL and to replace the line:

    DECLARE @Tomorrow DATE = CONVERT(DATE, DATEADD(day, 1, @Today)

with

    DECLARE @Tomorrow DATE = CONVERT(DATE, DATEADD(day, 1, CONVERT(DATE, @Today, 103)))

No doubt there will be an update at some point but thought put up this information to help anyone who has this issue.

Update (22nd July 2010):  The official fix revolves around the data type of the “Today” parameter in the report which is incorrectly set to a string:

<ReportParameter Name="Today">
  <DataType>DateTime</DataType>
  <DefaultValue>
    <Values>
      <Value>=today</Value>
    </Values>
  </DefaultValue>
  <Hidden>true</Hidden>
</ReportParameter>

Firstly there is some football match* on Wednesday afternoon and this has limited the choice of venue somewhat (and probably attendance), secondly it is necessary for me to be on a client site on Wednesday and it is out of town so I cannot even guarantee my attendance.

This is certainly not the way we planned things, I would be grateful for anyone who can step forward and help co-ordinate the London end of things jointly with me so we have some resilience in future.  Any suggestions for a venue with a projector (not showing the football!), tables, WiFi (am I just dreaming now?) and a bar gratefully received.

We had a few presenters lined up for this session as well as a raffle for a Pluralsight On Demand subscription and I apologise to them especially and hope we can reschedule all of this asap.

Finally, i’m compiling a twitter list (@ukalmug/members) with everyone who wants to participate so we can follow each other – please can you send me your twitter ID and I will add it.

Thanks, Stuart.

Stuart Preston
UK ALM User Group Coordinator, http://almug.org
@StuartPreston @ukalmug

(* Can you tell I’m not a big football fan?)