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 ...

Prerequisites SQL Server 2005 or later Visual Studio 2013 If using SQL Server 2014, make sure you have applied the SSDT updates. These can be found in Visual Studio’s Updates and Extensions menu.

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.

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 Ulti ...

How Do I Use Ssdt? Install and start Visual Studio 2017…. You can also use the CTRL+Shift+N keyboard shortcut. Click New, then click Project. You will need to enter WideWorldImporters-SSDT as the ...

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs. Written by Martin LaMonica, Contributor May 31, 2006, 9:00 a.m. PT ...

When the project is saved, Visual Studio updates setting information in the app.config XML file. Next, open app.config to examine its contents. Look for values inside the connectionStrings tag.