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The long-awaited power tools for VSTS 2008 DB edition have been released , which restore the sorely-missed functionality from the 2005 edition power tools, as well as some excellent improvements. Features List Download One of the coolest new features...
I had gotten into the habit in VS 2005 DB Edition of enabling the "Always Re-Create Database" option in database project properties. This allowed me to ensure that the db was being re-created from scratch every time I deployed it. I would only...
After installing Visual Studio 2008, I noticed that the default web browser was set to Firefox. Although this is probably the correct behavior, Firefox being my system default, I'm pretty sure that prior versions of VS ignored my OS-level selection...
A while back, Microsoft gave us the excellent Power Tools release for the database edition of VSTS 2005. One of the best things about this release was the Sequential Data Bound Generator , which allows the generation of specific values for lookup tables...
Download source files for this post - includes some extra files for supporting techniques in this article Recently, I've been working a lot with VSTS DB Edition, in the hopes of fully-integrating database projects in my day-to-day development and...
In Visual Studio 2005, if you have a solution open, with only one project attached to it, the solution file is not visible in the Solution Explorer window. This can be slightly annoying, since right-clicking the solution file from this window is a quick...
Since Visual Studio is modular, you can install multiple SKUs on top of each other. You may run across the scenario where you have already installed the applicable SP1 package(s) for Visual Studio 2005 SKUs on your machine, and then install a new SKU...