Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals ("Data Dude") was introduced in 2006, bringing a new database project type, refactoring, unit tests and more SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier ...

Few solutions lack a database component, and since SQL Server on-premises and Azure SQL Database in the cloud are among the most capable and popular options for serious developers, we wanted to show ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

description: Convert Visual Studio 2010 database projects to SQL Server projects, and retarget them to different platforms. View objects that SSDT can and cannot convert.

After setting the project database references, you need to change the "debug" database to point to a (developer-edition) SQL Server instance instead of the default localdb included with VS. Finally, ...

Visual Studio includes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) as part of its architecture for developing SQL Server relational databases. You can design databases for SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure SQL ...

Microsoft has up the first three of sixteen video tutorials designed to teach novices the basics of application development with the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions.