Getting started with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

Last week we made available for download CTP5 for the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. Gert "DataDude" Drapers has posted an exhaustive list of what's new in this release: What is new in CTP5.

If you want to get started yourself with VSTE for Database Professionals, here are a couple of resources to start with:

Matt Nunn points to 4 webcasts on VSTE for Database Professionals:

Available ON Demand Today:

• MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 1 of 4): Overview (Level 200)
• MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 3 of 4): Database Testing and Refactoring (Level 200)
• MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 4 of 4): Schema Source and Version Control (Level 200)

Airing August 30th 2006

• MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 2 of 4): Managing and Deploying SQL Server 2005 Schemas (Level 200)

There's also an excellent article available on MSDN:

"What Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Can Do for You". This article covers how to manage database objects and schemas as version controlled items, unit testing stored procs, data generation and the refactoring features. Despite this article is based on a previous CTP (4) it's an excellent starter article.

More VSTE for Database Professionals Blogs:

• Gert Drapers Blog
• Cameron Skinners Blog
• Matt Nunns Blog
• Richard Waymires Blog
• Thomas Murphys Blog
• Jeff Weltons Blog
• Sachin Rekhi's Blog

Tags: Microsoft, Community, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

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• Anonymous
  May 12, 2007
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