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• 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

• Diagnosing Problems

  How to diagnose problem inside Visual Studio Team System Database Edition is the subject for this blog post. When the product does not behave as expected we might ask you to create a trace of the activity that you are performing and send us the resulting Read More... Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 5:56 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR

• CTP 15 Is Here!

  We just released a new CTP of the upcoming 2008 update, Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP is here! You can download it from MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Read More... Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:57 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Some recent VSDB Articles

  Jeff Levinson recently wrote a great article in Visual Studio Magazine covering the upcoming GDR release: Introducing the VSTS Database Edition GDR and Jeffrey Juday just published an article on Developer.com about Database Unit Testing: Introducing Visual Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:44 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB, VSDB2008GDR

• Power Tools Installation Problem (error code 2738)

  Some users have been reporting problems installing the VSDB Power Tools on Vista or Windows Server 2008 (applies to both 32 and 64 bit versions). When they run the Power Tools installer they are confronted with the following mysterious error message: Read More... Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:06 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: PowerTools, tsbt-db, VSTS-DB

• PNWSQL Meeting July 9th

  On Wednesday July 9th, I will be presenting for the Pacific Northwest SQL Server User Group. If you are in the neighborhood, feel free to join us. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Campus, building 35. The topic du jour will be about what is in Read More... Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:15 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: tsbt-db, VSDB2008GDR

• Tech*Ed Online - Visual Studio Team System Panel - Meet the Team

  This panel discussion was recorded at Tech*Ed this week, it is a panel discussion about Visual Studio Team System at large. Participants Brian Harry (Technical Fellow of Team Foundation Server), Neelesh Kamkolkar (Senior Product Manager VSTS Test Edition), Read More... Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:16 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VSTS, teched, tsbt-db

• DataDude Goes Multi-Platform

  Yesterday, during Bill Gates his Tech Ed keynote , Brian Harry had the honor to show the first glimpse of the results of our partnership with IBM, DB2 support inside Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. As you might know or have read in one of Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:06 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: teched, tsbt-db, VSDB

• Channel 9 VSDB 2008 GDR Interview

  We just released a new Channel 9 interview that covers the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR functionality that we introduced today. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/briankel/New-GDR-Announced-for-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2008-Database-Edition/ Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:09 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VS2008, tsbt-db, VSDB, VSDB2008GDR

• VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP

  Today, at Tech*Ed 2008 Developer, we announced the immediate availability of the first public CTP of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. GDR stands for General Distribution Release. The GDR will be an out-of-band release enabling Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:05 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VS2008, tsbt-db, VSDB, VSTS-DB, VSDB2008GDR

• Tech·Ed 2008 Developers

  In case you are coming to the Developer edition of Tech·Ed next week, we have a lot of exiting things for you. As you can see below there are many sessions, hosted in both the developer and database tracks. Breakout sessions, chalk talks, panel discussions Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 6:10 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: VSTS, teched, vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VSDB, VSTS-DB

• MSDB Reference Projects

  The reference projects needed to resolve objects that reside inside an MSDB database have been posted on the MSDN Code Gallery site. You can find them on: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dbpromsdbsamples We did not post .dbmeta files but stub projects, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:50 PM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: vsdbpro, VS2008, tsbt-db, VS2005, VSDB, DatabaseReferences, VSTS-DB

• VSDB 2005 Service Release 1 Roll-up Package 1 (KB941278)

  Visual Studio 2005 Team System Database Professional post Service Release 1 (SR1) roll-up package 1, is now available. For a list of issues that are fixed, please see knowledge base article KB941278 . You can download the roll-up from the Microsoft Connect Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:36 AM from Data Dude | (Comments Off) Filed under: vsdbpro, tsbt-db, VS2005