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 ...

If you're not working with SQL Server 2014 (Visual Studio's default), you'll need to set the version of SQL Server with which you're working. In Project Properties, in the Project Settings tab, select ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft has up the first three of sixteen video tutorials designed to teach novices the basics of application development with the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions.