Barclay Hill

Hi everyone! My name is Barclay Hill and I am a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition Product Development Team. Yep, it's a mouthful! I will refer to the product as just "VSTSDB" in my posts. I have been working on a whitepaper...

The release of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition GDR version includes a very powerful tool to import and deploy database schemas from boxes where Visual Studio is not installed. The tool is a command line utility capable of: Importing a...

A custom Data Generator for SQL Server Sparse Columns is available for the VSTSDB GDR release. Genevieve Orchard , a member of the product development team, developed this Data Generator using the extensibility available in the GDR release. You can...

The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR introduced a new model based architecture that removes the product's dependency on a design db. In previous versions of the product a local instance of the SQL Server was required. This local SQL...

Developers needing the latest VSTSDB product information should subscribe to the new VSTSDB Team Blog . This new blog is dedicated to product information, announcements, and all things VSTSDB. I will continue publishing about VSTSDB best practice...

Earlier this week I presented at an internal conference on the topic of Database Project Extensibility provided by the VSTSDB GDR release . We had requests to share the demo code and so I am posting it here. The sample code contains a handful of custom...