Visual Studio 2010 supports data connections to SQL Azure , query designing, data manipulation, and data binding operations in your C#/VB applications. Connecting to a SQL Azure Database SQL Azure can be viewed as a subset of SQL Server 2008. Therefore, when you add a SQL Azure data connection inside...

If you have an identity primary key column defined in a database table, its value will be automatically set by the database engine when you insert a new row to the table. The identity value is determined by the column’s Identity Seed and Identity Increment properties. While in your client application...

Hierarchical update is an important feature of typed dataset that refers to the process of saving updated data back to a database while maintaining referential integrity rules. This feature is enhanced in Visual Studio 2008 by introducing a TableAdapterManger component to manage all TableApdaters in...

SQL Server 2008, Noverber 2007 CTP was recently released. We've also released a CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008 . This will enable you to use VS2005 against SQL Server 2008. For more information about this patch, see the Knowledge Base Article 942246 .