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Announcing Service Release 1

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I am happy to announce that first Service Release of Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is in the works and will be available in the second quarter of CY 2007 . In this service release we are addressing issues that were found by our customers as well as three bigger areas that we wanted to address based on the continuous feedback from users.

As our customer you have been great in providing detailed feedback and submitting issues via the Microsoft Connect website, which allowed us to identify and fix issues as: losing extended properties when writing to project from within Schema Compare; performance problems when the project is under source code control; parser gaps where we did not understand certain syntax constructs; interpretation problems that cause the generating of too many warnings and or errors.

All of these are a direct response on the issue to brought to our attention, we want thank you for that and please keep the feedback coming, so we can further improve our product!

What are the 3 areas?

  1. Database References – allows you to resolve references to schema objects inside different databases; either by using database project references or referencing a database metafile(.dbmeta) in case you do not have the source code of a project. This functionality eliminates the cross database reference warnings and errors within your database project.
  2. Better File support within Filegroups – allows you to define the files within file groups via a Database Project properties page as opposed to establishing the storage file within the pre-deployment storage script.
  3. Better SQLCMD Variable Support – we have added a variables page to the Database Properties pages to allow you to define and edit SQLCMD setvar variables which can be used in your deployment scripts. The SQLCMD variables can optionally be mapped to MSBuild properties from complete integration in to the build system.

Expanded Platform Support

Besides fixing and adding functionality this service release also adds official support for the following two platforms that happen to release after us:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2
  • Microsoft Windows Vista

Prerequisites

In order enable for full Windows Vista support and keep sanity in our installation and support matrix, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is a prerequisite for installing the service release. The service release will not install when you do not have the prerequisite software installed.

So when can I get it?

We will have a public CTP available shortly (as in weeks)! This will allow you to provide feedback on the functionality that we have enabled and issues we have addressed.

I will post more detailed blog postings on each of the major features as an introduction in the coming days.

-GertD
"DataDude" - Software Architect

 

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    Folks, please see Gert's blog for a description of what to expect in our upcoming service release. The

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    Folks We have just announced that there will be a service release for Visual Studio Team Edition for

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    Gert's posted info about the service release in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2007/03/22/announcing-service-release-1.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 28, 2007
    I've been in Orlando this week, speaking at SQL Connections and have been derelict in my blogging duties,

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2007
    Nous avons annoncé il y a quelques jours la disponibilité prochaine d'un SR1 pour Team DB Pro. Pour mémoire,

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2007
    Nous avons annoncé il y a quelques jours la disponibilité prochaine d'un SR1 pour Team DB Pro. Pour

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2007
    My team has been using VS DBPro (DataDude) for a little over six months now and I thought I give you an update on how we use this tool in a "mixed" environment (SQL Management Studio & DataDude), what we like and what we'd like to see in future releases

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2007
    Nous avons annoncé il y a quelques jours la disponibilité prochaine d'un SR1 pour Team DB Pro. Pour mémoire,

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2007
    Nous avons annoncé il y a quelques jours la disponibilité prochaine d'un SR1 pour Team DB Pro. Pour