Microsoft is offering a discount to Visual Studio subscribers interested in attending the upcoming CSLive! developer conference, which will be held August 4–8 at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...

Visual Studio can generate new projects from templates. Visual Studio Code can’t, but you can use command-line tools such as Yeoman to generate project outlines within the VS Code console.

Now, go into SQL Server Management Studio. Locate the database you intend to move and right-click that bad boy. Move your mouse down a bit until you get to Tasks. Let that menu pop out and click ...

Really all I’m interested in is this: I want to take exactly what I do now – run Visual Studio, SQL Server, and IIS in a Windows VM on my Intel MacBook Pro – and do the exact same thing, but ...

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.

In my column last month, "Simplifying Development with Database Projects," I described how to create a Visual Studio database project and I promised that it would make managing changes to your ...

In my column last month, "Simplifying Development with Database Projects," I described how to create a Visual Studio database project and I promised that it would make managing changes to your ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...

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 at 9:00 a.m. PT ...