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I'm not running from source at the moment, so getting the call stack could be problematic. I'll email you with my schedule and we can figure out if today works or if I make a trip out your way tomorrow.

In VS2013 (with the latest NORMA build as of Jan 8th), it's throwing an error when I enable the relational view. Specifically: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: font I've tried typing into the Fact Editor, copying objects from other models, opening older models, and they all throw the same error one way or another. The dialog ...

Just a quick follow-up... did UUID ever make it into NORMA? I'm doing a bit of work where we're using UUIDs in SQL Server 2008, and at the moment I'm just doing a search / replace in the generated script. My next step will be to customize our output transform, but it'll just be a dirty hack.

I started a thread in the Feature Request section that morphed into some updates on how NORMA is being used at my work. Since the continued updates may be of interest, it would probably be a good idea to continue the discussion outside the tech support forum. During the beginning of the project the NORMA-generated SQL was a tough sell because it ...

I followed these steps with some minor modifications to create a customized SQL output for our company. After restarting Visual Studio the option isn't showing up in the ORMGeneratorSettings. Are these instructions up to date (11 June, 2012)?

A quick update for everyone that's interested: I carried on paring down the large model for a couple of days, then everyone else lost patience and wanted faster results. They decided that since we had such good results with building from the ground up on the first section I tackled, that we could use the same process and get quicker traction ...

You could try zooming out and dragging things from the context window into an empty area, then deleting all the shapes that were previously there. The down side is that you've now lost all your beautiful layout. Sorry, not terribly helpful. To my knowledge there's no "get what's not on this page" filter.

I love the "abbreviations" setting. That's made my day!

Ah yes, I did need to restart VS. Thanks! But it's interesting... changes to makeValidIdentifier are only showing up in a couple of areas. I think I'm going to experiment with my computer at home and see if it's the same there or if my work computer is having problems. Where are the abbreviation settings kept? After a bit of poking ...

Thanks for the quick response, Matt! The data type changes were easy enough to modify in DDILtoSqlServer.xslt. Names are a bit trickier. I've been hitting "Run Custom Tool" explicitly. Maybe I'm going through the wrong file? The one I'm editing is C:\Program Files (x86)\Common ...