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• PDC Session Now Online

  The PDC session "TL45 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition: Overview", which I presented last Monday is now available for online viewing on Channel9. The video is stream can be found on: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL45/ Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:17 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR, PDC

• The GDR RC Is Here!

  During my session at PDC I announce the immediate availability of the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. We are going through the last stages of the development process and we are getting ready to release. This Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:46 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Partial Projects

  The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release introduces two new ways on how to share information between projects, partial projects and composite projects. This blog post will go in to how to use partial projects, composite projects Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 11:13 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Model Collation vs. Database Collation

  When you are using the latest CTP of the GDR release, you might have noticed that we introduced a new collation, named the "model collation". However if you go to the Database.sqlsettings file, which contains all the database properties, you Read More... Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:57 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• VSDB @ PDC2008

  If you happen to go to PDC this year, you might want to check out session TL45, " Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition: Overview ". The title might not sounds that interesting but this session will be 100% dedicated to the Visual Read More... Posted Saturday, October 04, 2008 1:43 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR, PDC

• More Team Developer + Data Edition Merge Information

  Per October 1st 2008 MSDN subscribers who own or buy a new Visual Studio Team System Developer license are entitled to also install the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, and  MSDN subscribers who own or buy a new Visual Studio Team System Read More... Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 2:25 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VSTS, vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR September CTP

  The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR September CTP is now available for download. This is the last CTP, we started our final descend, we will publish a public RC (release candidate) when it is ready, followed by the RTM release. The Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:09 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Team Developer + Team Data = Team Developer!

  In today's press release titled: " Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview " we announced the merge of the Developer Edition and Database Edition SKU's.   Better Together – Visual Studio Team System Development Edition Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:06 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VSTS, vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR

• REDIST

  I got lots of questions based on my last post regarding the parser and script generator and the ability to redistribute the bits. If you own an official copy of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR you are allowed to redistribute these Read More... Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 3:05 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Radio TFS covering the VSTSDB 2008 GDR

  The hosts of Radio TFS, Martin Woodward , Mickey Gousset and Paul Hacker interviewed me on the what is new and changed in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR CTP16 release. Since there are so many new things in the GDR we ran out of Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:32 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Getting to the Crown Jewels

  The crown jewels of the Database Edition product are the SQL parsers and script generator, these two pieces form the foundation of what the database project system does internally. The parser, parses T-SQL code and turns it in to a script fragment, where Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:15 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• VSTSDB 2008 GDR CTP16 is here!

  The team is happy to announce that we just released CTP16, of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release. We are yet another step closer to reaching the finish line which is waiting for us at PDC in Oct of this year. This release Read More... Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:00 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• VSTSDB GDR CTP15 and VS2008 SP1 AND SQL Server 2008 RTM

  I received enough questions asking if the VSTDB 2008 GDR CTP15 release is supported and working in combination with the released versions Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008? And if so what the correct order of installation is? GDR CTP15 is working Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:07 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Trace Helper

  This is the last part of the 3 part diagnostics series. This part will introduce you to a little helper utility that I wrote to make configuring the diagnostics and tracing options a lot simpler and more accessible. As discussed in the previous two blog Read More... Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 8:16 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR

• Event Monitor

  In part 2 of diagnosing problems I want to introduce you to an other build-in diagnostics tools that we might ask you to run with tracking down problems, the "event monitor". The event monitor is one of those tools that we use during development Read More... Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 6:49 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR