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Problems opening your project files in Visual Studio ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:59:20 GMT

if you encounter the problem as follows: <PathToyourDBFile> cannot be opened because its project type (.dbproj) is not supported by this version of the application. To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project. ..then...(read more)

Perception vs. reality, how to keep your database schema changes of different environments aligned with VSTSDB and VSDBCMD.EXE Part 1

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:43:23 GMT

Yesterday at the PASS conference I met an former colleague and he asked me about a particular challenge applying changes to the production database from Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. As he didn’t know about the new features of the deployment...(read more)

CTP15 of the GDR release of VIsual Studio for Database Professionals is available

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:21:00 GMT

For everyone being curious about the product as me, here is the official announcement of the latest public build: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/07/18/ctp-15-is-here.aspx Please send your feedback through the Connect platform to make the product...(read more)

VSTS Database Edition having problem creating UnitTests

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:36:00 GMT

As some of you might already encountered and found this blog entry while searching the internet, there can be a problem having certain installtion levels of the Data Dude installed on your machines. The error message is: The service Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.ISelectionContainer...(read more)

Visual Studio Team Database Edition 2008 - Where to get SR1 for this ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:09:00 GMT

One of the most heard questions I get is: "Now that we have VS2008 Database Edition, where can we get the additions which came with VS2k5 for DBPro?" The bad news, you cannot get them anywhere separately, the good news is that (you don´t even have to...(read more)

Basta Spring 2008 ! Slidedecks online

Jens K. Suessmeyer — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Vielen Dank an alle Teilnehmer meiner Sessions bei der Basta Spring 2008 in Mörfelden. Anbei die Slidedecks der Basta 2008 Spring über meine Sessions. Sollten Sie hierzu noch weitere Fragen haben, können Sie mich über den Blog kontaktieren. Database Lifecycle...(read more)