Practical .NET Simplifying Development with Visual Studio Database Projects Peter learns something by listening to readers: Visual Studio database projects provide a great environment for making ...

Reverse Engineering a Database SQL Server Data Tools can reverse engineer an existing database into an empty project using the Import command.

Starting a new project in Visual Studio and opening Server Explorer from the Toolsbox or by choosing View > Server Explorer is how you can connect to your SQL Server database.

Deployment to any current edition of SQL Server, including SQL Azure The biggest new introduction to SSDT is the close integration of Database and Application Projects in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio includes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) as part of its architecture for developing SQL Server relational databases. You can design databases for SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, and Azure SQL ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.