Stealing shamelessly from the mail Gert sent internally, I'm downloading now...   The Power Tools contain an impressing first set of new features; Dependency Viewer Refactoring Move Schema Expand Wildcard Fully Quality Name Refactor in to strongly typed DataSet definitions Refactor Command Generator Data Generation ...

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At the World Wide Partner Conference (WWPC) this week Kevin Turner announced a launch date for the 2008 Wave of Products(Longhorn, Orcas and Katmai). There has been a lot of conjecture about products slipping and stuff like that. To be clear this is all about a marketing launch, the RTM dates for these products are not the same as the launch date ...

This is a cool project for lots of reasons; There is a real need for this It has already been used by some MCS consultants so we know it works Its being released as a community project For me its cool because its for Analysis Services, which i worked closely on for many years, and it uses Visual Studio Team Test, Load Testing, which is one ...

Database Diagrams in SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005 were one of the more *ahem* controversial issues. If you remember at one point they were cut, then they came back, mostly as a result of the overwhelming feedback on them. Well (Data Dudette) Mairead now owns them and is looking for feedback, here is the entry to respond to.