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Visualizing EDMX files (entity framework data model)
Ever wanted to reverse engineer a code-first Entity framework model ? Or simply generate a diagram from an existing model? Try the Entity Framework Power Tools. Power Tools
SwitchySharp–Proxy Manager for Chrome
SwitchySharp is an advanced proxy manager for Google Chrome. It lets you switch between multiple proxies – detect whether your traffic is going DIRECT or through a PROXY (check the…
Word 2010 Pictures do not show up
I pasted pictures into my documents – only to find that they did not display. It turns out that it has to do with the default wrapping style on…
Roadmap for Windows Server Products
Windows Server Roadmap 1. Windows Server 2003 approaching end of support in July 2015. 2. Support for Windows Server 2008 ends in Jan 2020 SQL Server Roadmap 3. Support for…
Deleting a large number of pages in Microsoft word
What I wanted was to be able to select a few pages (say pages 1 through 3 – and DELETE everything ELSE – – INVERT The selection. Unfortunately, amongst all…
Create database permission denied in database master
First , login as an admin user- then try executing this script. USE master; EXECUTE sp_addsrvrolemember @loginame = N'MyWindowsDomain\MyUserName', @rolename = N'dbcreator'; If this doesn’t do it, find this LOGIN…
Google Business Email to get rid of spam on your custom domain email
With my own vanity domain name (), I had my own email address – and was happy until last year. Suddenly, the spam volume to my custom email account was…
asp.net 4.0 and 4.5.1 on IIS6 ( Windows Server 2003)
Two points to note: .NET runtime applications ARE supported on IIS (Windows Server 2003) . .NET appears as an extension in IIS ; You do need to ENABLE this extension.…
Tfs Server (2012 and above) installation and Configuration gotchas
Tfs requires SQL Server to be installed - and of late, it more or less mandates SQL Server Reporting Services be installed as well. I learnt this the hard way…
Sql versus NoSQL
This is a set of evolving thoughts and discoveries about NoSQL – when to use it – when not to… At a high level , the table shows the…