Monthly Archives: July 2012

Create Roles in SQL Server

Posted on July 31, 2012 by hammadk

Creating new user in SQL Server (SQL Server Management Studio) is easy. Simply click on the security tab and you get an option of creating a new user but creating roles is not that easy. AT least you cannot create … Continue reading →

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Should I upgrade to Mountain Lion OS X

Posted on July 31, 2012 by hammadk

There has been some confusion over weather I should upgrade to Mountain lion because It makes your computer slow The upgrade might crash your data The Air Play does not work Siri Dictation is stupid I lost some nice features … Continue reading →

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Outlook Deletes all Old Emails automatically

Posted on July 30, 2012 by hammadk

I don’t know what happened, my out look deletes all old emails (older than 6 days), even they are kept on my local drive in *.PST folder, they are even deleted from this folder. I do not know why. 6 … Continue reading →

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Create Role in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio

Posted on July 30, 2012 by hammadk

How to create role in SQL Serer 2005? This video talks about Logins Best pratices Windows level seurity Roles Creating a new user Create ASP.NET Membership Roles

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Basic SEO techniques

Posted on July 29, 2012 by hammadk

The following are a sliest of short and basic SEO techniques. I have gathered them from my personnel experience as well as from the internet. 1. Content is not King This is commonly believed but it is not true. Content … Continue reading →

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Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0

Posted on July 24, 2012 by hammadk

I encountered the above error in quite a weird way. I replaced a  fromview control (TextBox) with a DropDownList and an SQL DataSource and began to get this error in a different place in the application, not related at this … Continue reading →

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Create Branch in SVN Tortoise – Video tutorial

Posted on July 23, 2012 by hammadk

Create Branch in SVN Tortoise – Video Tutorial Steps 1. Go the repository from Tortoise SVN menu, Right click anywhere in a Window  select  > Repository browser (the top option). This will take you to the repository viewer. All of … Continue reading →

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File comparison with winmerge

Posted on July 20, 2012 by hammadk

File comparison with winmerge is really easy. You do not even need two files. You can fire up Winmerge Program Files > WinMerge > Winmerge.exe The windows popups up with two editors one on left, one on right. Past some … Continue reading →

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‘DropDownList1’ has a SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items

Posted on July 18, 2012 by hammadk

This error is thrown by ASP.NET in a dropdownlist where the selected value (fetched from the database), does not match any of the value in the drop down list and is therefor invalid. To explain this [csharp] 1 2 3 … Continue reading →

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Divert emails in outlook

Posted on July 17, 2012 by hammadk

If you have two different emails setup in outlook, you will have two different pst files, one for each email account. When an email comes it you can divert them to which PST file the email should go to. Sometime … Continue reading →

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