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For developers that target Oracle, Quest has just released their FREEWARE version of the Toad Extension for Visual Studio 2010 . Developers with a Visual Studio 2010 Professional License can now manage database change under source control as they can...

2010 Database Projects in RC The RC version of Database Projects is available in the RC release of Visual Studio (10.0.30128.1 ). We invite you to evaluate the RC and send you feedback through this blog or MSConnect . For Database Projects there...

The Database Edition functionality in Visual Studio 2010 is based on our GDR release. If you have been using the GDR this is what is “new:” Project Features The Data Dude project system is now available in Visual Studio Professional. We did this...

We've been working closely with Quest for some time now, and the time is finally here that you can download and check out their fantastic beta release of Project Fuze . I installed a version of Oracle Express yesterday and also installed the Project Fuze...

The RTM version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 is now available for customers to download. The GDR R2 version is the most current release of Database Edition that adds support for SQL Server 2008 and numerous new features...

The service Release Candidate (RC) for the Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR is available for customers to evaluate. This is a limited service release. The RC will be available for a short period followed by the release of the RTM version of the...

Since the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008 GDR we have been working towards a solution for issues that were discovered and reported by customers shortly after release. Since resources had to be assigned to this work, the Power Tool refresh for...

Today it was announced Oracle support will be available for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development through a Database Schema Provider (DSP ). Quest , a provider of Database Management Solutions, is developing the Oracle DSP for Visual Studio Team...

The current version of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (GDR) is available in VPC and Hyper-V virtual machine images. The GDR does not support a sideXside install with the previous version so this is great for folks who want to evaluate...

We continue to receive questions about the merge of Visual Studio Team System Development and Database Editions. While the announcement occurred last year, the content regarding this announcement is no longer available on MSDN. We are reposting here with...

Welcome Everyone! Some of you that follow Gert Draper's blog regarding all things Data Dude may have read that Gert Drapers has taken on a new challenge within Microsoft . Gert's knowledge, vision, and direction will be missed. Gert's blog has been...