Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

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

The Visual Studio Shell will be available by web download alongside the Visual Studio SDK. There will be two modes of the Visual Studio Shell, integrated and isolated.

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 comes nearly a year after the first Beta (a Community Technology Preview, as Microsoft terms it), and the full official release is still some months away.

Microsoft with Visual Studio 2008 is offering enhancements in every edition of the product, including Visual Studio Express for hobbyists and Visual Studio Team System for team-based development.

SQL Server Development Tools (SSDT), codenamed "Juneau", provide a new Visual Studio-based development environment for SQL Server. Some of its features are already available in Visual Studio 2010 ...

Microsoft says it's hard at work on a Visual Studio edition product targeted specifically at database developers and that it plans to ship it by year's end.

Find out more about Visual Studio Live!, taking place March 3-8, 2024, in Las Vegas You mention that attendees will learn about locks in databases. Could you give an overview of what locks are, their ...