The session, held Wednesday morning at the Visual Studio Live! Chicago conference, showed how database developers can use SSDT to manage both on-premise and cloud-based database development projects.

Don’t forget: Microsoft will support Windows Server 2008—and thus the VB6 runtime—for another decade. That totals two decades of support for Visual Basic 6--a very significant commitment.

Microsoft will launch beta copies of Visual Studio 11 and Windows Server 8 on February 29th, alongside the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

Because of broad customer demand to work with these prerelease products today, Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Go-Live license program for customers interested in deploying Visual Studio 2005 ...