Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

With more updates to the Visual Studio interface for SQL projects coming up and an immediate iteration to v2 of the Microsoft.Build.Sql SDK, there's new ways to increase your confidence in database ...

Prerequisites SQL Server 2005 or later Visual Studio 2013 If using SQL Server 2014, make sure you have applied the SSDT updates. These can be found in Visual Studio’s Updates and Extensions menu.

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an ...

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.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.

This post talks extensively about the Visual Studio Dev Essentials program by Microsoft and what it has to offer you as a budding Developer.

Developers using Visual Studio Codespaces will need to move to GitHub Codespaces but there's no way to migrate existing projects from one service to the other.