Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals ("Data Dude") was introduced in 2006, bringing a new database project type, refactoring, unit tests and more SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier ...

Few solutions lack a database component, and since SQL Server on-premises and Azure SQL Database in the cloud are among the most capable and popular options for serious developers, we wanted to show ...

When the project is saved, Visual Studio updates setting information in the app.config XML file. Next, open app.config to examine its contents. Look for values inside the connectionStrings tag.

Business Intelligence (BIDS) tool for Visual Studio 2010 replaced by SQL Server Data Tool – Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI). provides a development environment for developing business solutions in the ...