You can now download the sample msdb database projects from Microsoft Code Gall ery to create cross database references between your database project schema objects and the schema objects that reside within the msdb database. We have provided msdb...

Just after we released the first SR for DB Pro, we turned around and released the power tools right on top. The goal of the powertools is to add additional enhancements to the version 1 of DBPro. This is the first in a series of power tools releases...

Folks Just wanted to give you a heads up that, the Beta2 of Visual Studio 2008 is available for you to start coding with:-). Woohooooo Soma's has a detailed blog on the release, check it out here You can download the beta here on our MSDN pages...

Folks I am happy to announce that the Service Release for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals has shipped You can download the SR from the following locations The English download center page is at http://www...

Folks We would really love to hear your feedback on the recent CTP of VSTE for Database Professionals Service Release. Have you experienced any issues from using the product? What did you like/did not like about the new functionality that was introduced...

Overview We’re very happy to announce the first public CTP of Service Release for the recently launched Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. This Service Release addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer...

Folks We have just announced that there will be a service release for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals due to be released in first half of ’07. Check out Gert’s (aka Data Dude) blog for more details J mairead

Thanks everyone for your great comments on whether you use database diagrams and what you'd like to see in that arena for Visual Studio. Mairead

In order to increase developers productivity for creating schema objects traditionally in Visual Studio or SQL Server, you were able to leverage the Table Designer, Check Constraint, Foreign Key, Full Text Index, XML index, index editors and view designer...

Like my recent post on database projects, we would like to understand your current usage of the Database Diagrams feature which shipped as part of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Getting feedback on your usage, helps us to get a deeper understanding...

Folks Some of you may be familiar with the old database projects in Visual Studio 2005, 2003 and earlier versions.....here are a few images to help you recap You can store items such as create objects scripts, change scripts and queries files...

In case you missed it, we Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals has released. Check out Matt's blog posting for the details You can now download the trial edition from here As you can imagine we are super happy with the V1 release...

Quite a number of folks have asked what are the licensing plans for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. In the simplest case, if you have Team Suite you will get DBPro for free. If you do not have Team Suite then DBPro is priced at...

You may have heard this already but we have announced the release date of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals to be November 30th 2006. On that date we plan to RTM which means in Microsoft terminology Release to Manufacturing.Check out...

Folks Both Dmitriy and I am here at Tech Ed Developer Barcelona to answer all your questions related to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Please do stop by at the Ask the Expects section and let us know how you are getting on using...

Recently I did a short 10 minute video on how to create a new database project using Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Check it out on Channel 9 Also let me know what else you would like to see video on for DB Pro

A number of folks have asked about this in our forum so I thought I would share my response The old Database Project that exists in Visual Studio 2005 are really an ad-hoc script storage project type so that users can quickly create ad-hoc scripts...

Folks We're going to host a MSDN chat for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals on Wednesday 1st of November 2006 between 10am and 11am Pacific Time This is where we will have about 20 developers, 14 tester and about 5 Program managers...

We would love to hear your thoughts, issues, likes, dislikes with CTP 6. We really want to deliver a database development platform for you Start logging feedback here

We released another CTP 6 last week, which is available for download here on MSDN This is another major CTP release, and we strive towards final release(RTM'ing) at the end of this year. This CTP contains lots and lots of customer requested fixes that...

I've finally gotten around to creating my own blog, to start talking about all of the cool new exciting things about Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Not to decide the subject of my next post:-) Here's some background...