With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, database projects with the .dbp extension are deprecated. There are several ways to convert your project manually Import Script. Unfortunately this will shred your scripts for schema objects and move any...

Recently I was analyzing an application written in managed code for memory problems.  In managed code a common cause of eating up memory is statically allocated objects which are not nulled out after they are no longer needed. In the application...

Adding a new Font and Color category to the Visual Studio Options dialog is, admittedly, a little tricky. There are several services your package must proffer, an interface you must implement and registry keys you must provide (one of them very poorly...

Recently Duke Kamstra and I demonstrated how you can use Visual Studio 2008 Database and Server projects to deploy Sql Server permission objects to your various Sql Server instances. It’s common to develop on a local box with admin rights, and then restrict...

For this blog I’ve developed an add-in for General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition projects (better known as “Data Dude”) which will generate Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) stored procedures for a...

In this blog I’ll introduce you to the basics of navigating the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition object model. I’ve wrapped it all into an add-in so you can step through the code and extend it as you...

In this blog I’ll introduce you to the Import Scripts add-in to the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. With this add-in Visual Studio can import multiple scripts to populate a target database project...

In this blog I’ll lead you through the various parameters for the “Data.NewDataComparison” command available in the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. This command launches the Visual Studio Data Compare...

In this blog I’ll lead you through the various parameters for the “Data.NewSchemaComparison” command available in the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  This command...

We have had a lot of requests from folks that would rather not go through the Import Script Wizard when they have multiple T-SQL source scripts. Fortunately Visual Studio provides the ability to execute parameterized commands by using the Design Time...