Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

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.

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

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.

Additionally, project templates now use Vite instead of create-react-app and vue cli for faster builds and server start. In general, Visual Studio 2022 17.7 got positive feedback from the community.

Combine .Net with C# and HTMX for a streamlined development process that yields a dynamic front end without writing a line of JavaScript.