We just released a new CTP of the upcoming 2008 update, Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP is here! You can download it from MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Most important changes: Project upgrade is now in ...

Jeff Levinson recently wrote a great article in Visual Studio Magazine covering the upcoming GDR release: Introducing the VSTS Database Edition GDR and Jeffrey Juday just published an article on Developer.com about Database Unit Testing: Introducing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Unit Testing -GertD

Some users have been reporting problems installing the VSDB Power Tools on Vista or Windows Server 2008 (applies to both 32 and 64 bit versions). When they run the Power Tools installer they are confronted with the following mysterious error message: Error code 2738 implies that the VBScript engine is not enabled. On some Vista and Windows ...

On Wednesday July 9th, I will be presenting for the Pacific Northwest SQL Server User Group. If you are in the neighborhood, feel free to join us. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Campus, building 35. The topic du jour will be about what is in the GDR. For more info see this link: ...

This panel discussion was recorded at Tech*Ed this week, it is a panel discussion about Visual Studio Team System at large. Participants Brian Harry (Technical Fellow of Team Foundation Server), Neelesh Kamkolkar (Senior Product Manager VSTS Test Edition), Peter Provost (Program Manager VSTS Architect Edition), Habib Heydarian (Lead Program ...

Yesterday, during Bill Gates his Tech Ed keynote, Brian Harry had the honor to show the first glimpse of the results of our partnership with IBM, DB2 support inside Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. As you might know or have read in one of my previous blog posts, we are changing the underlying architecture of the VSTS Database Edition ...

We just released a new Channel 9 interview that covers the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR functionality that we introduced today. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/briankel/New-GDR-Announced-for-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2008-Database-Edition/ -GertD

Today, at Tech*Ed 2008 Developer, we announced the immediate availability of the first public CTP of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. GDR stands for General Distribution Release. The GDR will be an out-of-band release enabling support for SQL Server 2008. It also introduces the new product architecture, which for those of ...

In case you are coming to the Developer edition of Tech·Ed next week, we have a lot of exiting things for you. As you can see below there are many sessions, hosted in both the developer and database tracks. Breakout sessions, chalk talks, panel discussions and hands-on lab, all covering Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. It all ...

The reference projects needed to resolve objects that reside inside an MSDB database have been posted on the MSDN Code Gallery site. You can find them on: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dbpromsdbsamples We did not post .dbmeta files but stub projects, because .dbmeta files require the collation to match with your environment. This would result ...