Retrieving Cube Metadata in Reports

An interesting question popped up on the discussion list the other day about how to retrieve a list of the cube measures so the report author can display them in a report parameter.

Solution 1: If you just need a list of measures but not the measure metadata, such as display folder, etc., you can use the following (not trivial, ok hacky) query, which I borrowed from my esteemed colleague MVP and MDX guru Chris Webb: