Implementing a WIX installer that calls the GDR version of VSDBCMD.EXE

Implementing a WIX installer that calls the GDR version of VSDBCMD.EXE

Duke Kamstra just post a great article about WIX and DB Dude.

One of the cool things that shipped with the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (aka the GDR) is the command line utility VSDBCMD.EXE. By using this utility, you can take the artifacts created by building a Database Project and deploy them to a database instance. If the database doesn’t exist on the instance of SQL Server, it will be created. If the database does exist, it will be altered to look like the source code in your project.

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