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Data Dude + Developer Edition = Team Developer
{From My VSTS KB } In today's press release titled: " Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview " MS also announced the merge of the Developer Edition and Database Edition SKU's. From Gert’s post: What does this mean? In the next release of Visual Studio Team System we will be merging the feature sets of the Development Edition and the Database Edition into a single product. The new product – part of Visual Studio Team System codename “Rosario” – will include all of the...
Data Dude:Deploy Action On CTP16 Does Not Deploy The Database To Target
A lot of users confused and don’t understand why the database does not appear on the target server when they do deploy. The reason is that in CTP 16, the default deploy mechanism is to deploy to script. If you want to deploy to database you have to change the 'Deploy action' on the project properties, deploy tab to 'Create a deployment script (.sql) and deploy to the database.' Read more .
Data Dude On RadioTFS
From http://vstskb.net - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/vstskb/~3/394424099/ Just published over on Radio TFS   a special episode on the Database Edition of Team System with the Data Dude man - Gert Drapers .  In the show Gert talks how the product got started, where it is now, where it is going in the future, the latest CTP of the Database Edition GDR and more.
VSTSDB 2008 GDR CTP16
Gert just posted about the release of CTP16 of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release. From Gert’s post: This release adds the following features: VSDBCMD.EXE We added independent commandline deployment and reverse engineer, which can be used on machines that do not have Visual Studio installed, in order to deploy the results of a database project build (.dbschema file), or if you need to generate a .dbschema file so you can for example compare it, this commandline tool will...
CTP15 of the GDR release of VSTSDB is available
Gert just announced that they just released a new CTP of the upcoming 2008 update, Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. You can download it from MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Most important changes: Project upgrade is now in place. Mixed projects are no longer supported, from now on server projects represent only server creatable objects and user objects that need to be deployed to...
VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR - Where Is The Properties Tabs?
Some changes were shipped in the last GDR June CTP of VSTS 2008 Db Pro. If you want to change or view the catalog properties, deployment properties or variables properties you should navigate the properties node . These properties tabs are no longer exists under the database properties area. Example: When you click for example on the CatalogProperties.catalogproperties property, the database properties will be displayed.
VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP
Yesterday, at TechEd 2008 Developer, Data Dude team announced the immediate availability of the first public CTP of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (General Distribution Release). Highlights: SQL Server 2008 Support, better DB unit testing support, refactor engine improved, and no more need for a local copy of SQL Server to validate DB changes. Read more... ...
VSTS Database Professionals msdb Projects
You can now download the sample msdb database projects from Microsoft Code Gallery to create cross database references between your database project schema objects and the schema objects that reside within the msdb database. There are msdb database projects for both Visual Studio Team System 2008 release of Database Edition as well as the Visual Studio Team Edition 2005 for Database Professionals Service Release 1 for both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Cross-database references requires that...
Permissions Error when Creating Database Projects
Recently I got a question about permissions error that occurred when user was trying to create database project in the local instance of Microsoft SQL Server used for design-time validation. The error was: "CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'" . Workaround To create database you must be a member of the dbcreator and securityadmin fixed server roles in the server instance that you specified for design-time validation. First, ensure that the instance name that is...
How To Deploy Data Dude Project Changes using Team Foundation Build
When you want to build and deploy database projects with team build you need to edit the database project file and the Team Build file. That's because database projects store any non-default values for the TargetDatabase, TargetConnectionString, and DefaultDataPath properties in a <ProjectName>.dbproj.user file.  *.user files are not checked into version control in order to let every user use different values.   Step 1 - Modify build project file (team build .proj file) Open the...
My TechED Talk - Slides AND Demo
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at TechEd Israel 2008 . It was a great experience! My Session went very well, if I do say so myself. I talked about controlling your database lifecycle with data dude . In any case, if you were in my talk, I'd love to hear your comments (good or bad!) about it so that I can either feel good about it, or get better for next time. Thanks to everyone that wake up for the talk - it was very well attended despite the time (9:00 AM after the midnight party...
My TechED Session Is Over
Thank you everybody who attended this morning (after last night part) to see my presentation. I hope you enjoyed and feel it open your mind. Feel free to contact me to ask anything. I'll publish the slides and demos soon. THANKS!!!
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit
Microsoft released a nice training kit (~126MB) (it's a real treasure!) for the latest technologies. This package covers a bunch of technologies and includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management C# 3.0 VB 9.0 LINQ WPF WCF WF Silverlight ASP.NET AJAX CardSpace Mobile...
ALM 403: Control Your Database Lifecycle With Data Dude - Agenda
Next week I'll give a session at TechEd 2008 In Eilat, Israel. The session will introduce you how you can control your      database changes and integrate it into your agile development methodology. Do you want to control your database changes? Do you want to test your database with unit test and even run static analysis on it? Do you want better life and easier deployment of the database schema changes to the production database? If one of your answers is YES, come and discover...
Want to Meet Me at TechEd?
As you know , I will be presenting a presentation in TechEd 08 Israel.  Microsoft opened up the meetings application at http://www.face2facemeeting.com/teched/ . If you are attending TechEd 08 Israel , you can set an appointment with me, by using this application. To find me there navigate to the Find Participants screen and looking for ALM or מאור as keyword. My presentation details: Name: ALM403: Control your Database Lifecycle with Data Dude Time: 8/4/2008, 9:00 AM Location: Hilton Hotel...
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