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OK, no more SSDT jokes! SSDT, or SQL Server Data Tools, give you the features of SQL Server Management Studio within Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to create and maintain tables in your databases. See this...
No, SSDT is not a disease; it is a set of SQL Server Data Tools that are included as part of Visual Studio 2012. You can use the SQL Server Object Explorer from the SSDT to maintain or view your databases. See this link for an introduction to SQL Server...
If you use Visual Studio AND SQL Server Management Studio, you'll be glad to hear that the SQL Server Management Studio tools, called SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), are now a part of Visual Studio 2012. You can create, edit, and delete SQL Server tables...
You can open Visual Studio multiple times, but each environment has the same settings. With Visual Studio 2010 and experimental instances, you can now have entirely different instances of Visual Studio with different settings. If you open up Visual Studio...
The Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) conference is coming to Redmond next week. I am really looking forward to a week of learning, connecting with other developers, and just having some fun. The code for my two session is available at the following links...
The Silicon Valley Code Camp was last week-end and was again a GREAT event. We had close to 2200 attendees and lots of fun. My presentation was on "Best Kept Secrets in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0". It covered lots of the little things inside...
As you are debugging your application, you may want to set a break point further down the call stack. One way to do this is to double-click on the row in the Call Stack to navigate to the code, and then insert a breakpoint. But there is an easier way...
The complexities of today's software are better managed used techniques such as layered architectures, object-oriented programming, separation of concerns, MVC, and MVVM to name a few. All of these techniques require that your application be separated...
Software development is more than just programming. We need to figure out what we are going to code, how we are going to code it, share information with our team, and track our progress. One tool that can help us with these tasks is the Task List within...
Sometimes you just want to focus on a specific piece of code and you want the rest of it just out of your way. With Visual Studio 2010, you can hide any piece of code in your application using the new Hide Selection feature. For example, here is a piece...
If you are working on a large project, your Solution Explorer can get unwieldy and difficult to manage. Solution Folders can help. Solution folders are logical folder groupings of projects or files within a project. For example, here is a solution with...
If you like to keep your hands on the keyboard, here is a tip for accessing any Visual Studio window. Ctrl + Tab When you are in Visual Studio, just press Ctrl + Tab. You will get a popup window that looks something like this: Keep holding down the Ctrl...
The Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 still has no search feature (at least not without a Visual Studio Extension). But it does support a type-ahead feature. Though not new, it is a little known feature. So here are the details. 1) Ensure the Solution...
Renaming or moving files in Visual Studio is never an easy task. But one of the lesser known enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to change the directory location of a project. Here is the scenario. The team decides that the projects need...
Visual Studio 2010 opens with a new start page: One of the nice new features on the start page is the ability to pin projects so they will always appear in the Recent Projects list. If I want to try out some code, I sometimes start up a new "test"...
With the new multi-monitor support, an underused Visual Studio menu option just became much more useful. You can use the Window | New Window option to view a second code window with the same code file. The result looks like this: You can then drag one...
The new Visual Studio 2010 Database Project, as described in this prior post , makes it easy to work with scripts for an existing database or build new scripts directly within Visual Studio. This post details how to add stored procedure scripts to a Database...
The new Visual Studio 2010 Database Project, as described in this prior post , makes it easy to manage the scripts for your database from within Visual Studio. This includes building the schema scripts from the individual database object scripts and deploying...
The new Visual Studio 2010 Database Project, as described in this prior post , makes it easy to work with scripts for an existing database or build new scripts directly within Visual Studio. This post details how to add table scripts to a Database project...
The new Visual Studio 2010 Database Project, as described in this prior post , makes it easy to work with scripts for an existing database directly within Visual Studio. You can automatically build scripts for your existing tables, stored procedures,...
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