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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...
One of the new unit testing features in VS 2012 (Premium or Ultimate) is the continuous test runner. When turned on, it automatically executes your unit tests after every successful build. Digressing a moment … in the early 1990's Shari Lewis and...
One of the new things about testing in Visual Studio 2012 is that it is now available in *all* editions of Visual Studio all the way to Visual Studio Express! The Test Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 replaces the Test View window in Visual Studio...
OK 101 is an exaggeration, but there are many ways to run your tests in Visual Studio 2012. From the test code file While you are writing or editing a test method, you can right click anywhere within the method and run or debug the test. [Red rectangle...
Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer has extensive searching and limited grouping capabilities. (Visual Studio 2010's Test View window had more grouping options by way of its many sorting parameters.) Searching Entering text into the Test Explorer Search...
In Visual Studio 2012, the Visual Studio 2010 Test View window has been replaced by a new Test Explorer window. By default, it appears on the left side of the Visual Studio Interactive Development Environment (IDE) as shown below: (Red box added for illustration...
There are lots of new Solution Explorer features in Visual Studio 2012, so many that they did not all fit into one blog post. The following are posts that outline the new features: Solution Explorer Sync'ing in Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2012...
This is just a little feature, but a very useful one: Solution Explorer now allows you to control the sync to the currently active tab. In prior versions of Visual Studio, Solution Explorer automatically synchronized its position to the active tab. When...
As you debug and refactor your application, you often want to know who called whom. Visual Studio has always provided features to help you with that, but Visual Studio 2012 provides more. With the following, you can determine which properties and methods...
In prior versions of Visual Studio, the Solution Explorer has been basically static. With Visual Studio 2012, it is much more dynamic with features such as filtering and scoping. [For information on the filtering features, see this prior blog post .]...
In prior versions of Visual Studio, the Solution Explorer has been basically static. With Visual Studio 2012, it is much more dynamic with features such as filtering and scoping. [For information on the scoping features, see this prior blog post .] The...
As you debug your project, stepping through the code, you often end up with lots and lots of opened tabs in Visual Studio. With all of those tabs opened, it is hard to keep track of the tabs that are important. Visual Studio 2012 provides two features...
One of the very nice things about Visual Studio is that all of the tools you need are in one place. With one integrated development environment, you can build your database, create your resource strings, write your code, write and run unit tests, check...
As .NET developers, we sometimes need to convert code from C# to VB or from VB to C#. Bing may have returned the perfect example of what you need, but it is in VB and you need C# code. Or some sample code you downloaded is in C# and you need it in VB...
"Extensions and Updates" is the new name for the Visual Studio 2010 "Extension Manager". With it you can find samples, tools, and Visual Studio extensions. To access it, select Tools | Extensions and Updates from the Visual Studio...
There has been minor controversy over the use of upper case letters in Visual Studio 2012's menus. No need for concern. If you really hate them you can turn them off! (Upper case characters are sometimes considered to be shouting.) There are three...
You would think that giving an application a title and later retrieving that title would be a straightforward thing to do in VB.NET or C#. But it turns out to be a little complex, especially to find the appropriate place to enter the title then to write...
Someone asked me about this, and though ampersands in menus is as old as VB 1.0 the question comes up because the associated shortcut keys don't appear underlined by default in some versions of Windows. Most Windows Forms applications have a menu...
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