Folks, just wanted to make sure you knew about the first DBPro article to hit MSDN. It actually hit a few days back, but just in case, here's the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/TEDBPro.asp Kudos to...

One of the great extensibility features we've enabled with CTP5 is the ability to write your own Test Conditions that will appear in the Test Assertion drop down of our Database Unit Testing Designer. Sachin Rekhi has just posted a great article about...

Just wanted to clear up some confusion I've been hearing about what CTP5 requires in order to install. You simply have to have Visual Studio 2005 Professional installed or higher. We were investigating the requirement on having VSTS Trial instead, but...

Have a great weekend, 'cause we are! :) We thought we'd need till Monday to get you the software, but things moved a bit faster than we thought! Our latest installment is ready for consumption! Please download the bits from here . As always, feedback...

We're putting the final touches on our CTP5/Beta drop ( due out this Monday!!! ). The team has been absolutely moving to make this drop sing for you guys, so we'd love to hear tons of feedback from you, once it becomes available this Monday ( believe...

Folks, Adolfo Wiernik , one of our friends over at Solid Quality Learning, has also produced some web casts for the spanish audience out there. If you're a spanish speaker, by all means, check 'em out! Administrando e instalando esquemas de SQL Server...

Just trying out the beta of the Windows Live Blog Writer. So far so good! If you are interested, here's the link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/9/a/f9a19f2d-cec4-4a25-9b0b-eb9655ea7561/Writer.msi

Gert just completed another MSDN web cast, this one entitled " Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 4 of 4): Schema Source and Version Control". It's found here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID...

As part of CTP5 we will have a second download available which will be an updated MSDN library. The updated MSDN library will include the DBPro content and enable F1 help in many areas of DBPro. The updated MSDN library with CTP5 will only be available...

Before I forget, Gert and Sachin just completed the recording of an MSDN webcast. Check it out! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032304010&Culture=en-US The title is: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals...

When we RTM we will have two versions – a retail version and a trial version. The retail version will install on top of Visual Studio 2005 Professional, a Team Edition version, or VSTS. The trial version will only install on top of VSTS or VSTS Trial...

Folks, I was planning on providing a detailed walkthrough of the unit testing features built into the product as the fourth step in the series, but Sachin Rekhi ( a Program Manager on the team ) has done a fabulous job in giving you some detailed instruction...