Visual Studio Database Development Tools

This blog post assumes you are using Visual Studio 2010. However, most of the information is relevant to Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR . We get a lot of questions from customers for which we answer; use multiple projects (database...

This blog post assumes you are using Visual Studio 2010. However, most of the information is relevant to Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR . We get a lot of questions on the forum for which the answer is to use partial projects and/or...

One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is T-SQL IntelliSense. Yes, I know you’re thinking, “it’s about time.” Well, when we were implementing this functionality we had to made some difficult decisions about what we would support. So I thought...

This post describes all the properties that may be configured in SQL Server, SQL Database and Data-tier Application Component (DAC) projects and how to go about setting them. Specifically, the properties that are defined and persisted in the DBPROJ file...

Technorati Tags: DBP , database , project , visual studio 2010 In Visual Studio 2010 DBP projects (also known as database projects) have been replaced by DBPROJ projects (aka SQL Server 2005 or 2008 Database Projects). DBPROJ projects have only been available...

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 , Data Dude , DBPro , Database Project , DAC , Data-tier Application In Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 we have introduced a new database project type to support SQL Server Data-tier Applications (DAC). For detailed information...

Technorati Tags: Data Dude , DBPro , Database Edition , VSDBCMD , WiX , Setup , MSI One of the cool things that shipped with the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (aka the GDR) is the command line utility VSDBCMD.EXE . By using this...