Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

What has changed for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (aka VSDB, DB Dude) in the 2008 edition?

1. Installation: No more additional setup. In Visual Studio Team System 2008 VSDB completely integrated in the standard setup, so no more additional downloads. All you have to do is to make sure the Team Database Edition option is checked in the features to install window.  The database project functionality is only available in two of the Visual Studio Team System SKU's:
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition.
   • Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite.
2. The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is based on the v1.0 functionality plus the Service Release 1 functionality.
3. Solution Explorer performance improvements, especially when your project has large number of objects stored under a single node instead Solution Explorer.

What about the great features of VSDB 2005 power tools?  Not available yet. MS trying to release a new VSDB 2008 Power Tools release targeting later this month.

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Rosario November CTP is now available

According to Jeff Beehler:

I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP) is now available.  Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from our download page.

Download and check what's coming up next for Visual Studio Team System!

 

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Visual Studio Team System chat - December 5, 2007

Do you want to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition? You can join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group chats.

There will be two chat sessions.  (times in the Jerusalem time zone)

• Join the chat on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 from 20:00 - 21:00 Jerusalem Time. Add to Calendar
• Join the chat on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 from 02:00AM - 03:00AM Jerusalem Time. Add to Calendar

DEV215: Presentation and Demo Download

I uploaded my presentation, done in DevAcademy2. Now you can download, use and review it.

Presentation - DEV215 Integrating Databases Into ALM

Demo -  DEV215 Integrating Databases Into ALM

DevAcademy2 Summary

Yesterday I presented at DevAcademy II event - an annual developers event organized by Microsoft Israel. It was a great event and highly-professional. I really enjoyed it.

A big thanks to Microsoft Israel for the technical and logistical planning and execution of this event.  Both speakers and attendees commented it was great and professional.

I'll post later the download link of my presentation and demos -  DEV215: Integrating Databases Into ALM.

See you in the next event!

Photos - Thanks to Mr. Adi Avnit.

How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?

Dan Moseley, a developer on the MSBuild team, wants to know how you would prioritize features for the next version of MSBuild by asking, How would you spend $100 on MSBuild?

This is a great opportunity to influence the future of MSBuild, so be sure to post your opinion.

My choice:

Visualization - $30

Msbuild debugger - $25

Vc support - $20

Extensible functions - $5

Inline tasks  - $20

 

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Dual boot: Vista and Win Server 2003

Wow! It was a long long long installation weekend. My Laptop's hard disk died a week ago, and I got new one which means installations!

I need both Vista and Server 2003 with Dual boot configuration on my laptop. Vista is my work and development machine, server 2003 hosted Team Foundation Server - my presentations machine.

It seems that this is not so easy to configure dual boot with Vista...after 2 formats and re-installation I finally succeeded!

Why does it so complicated? earlier versions of the Windows are incompatible with the new Windows Vista startup method. Windows Vista uses a new Boot Configuration Database (BCD) store. This store contains a boot menu and all the information about operating systems that are installed on the computer. Therefore, a Boot.ini file that is from an earlier version of the Windows operating system cannot be used to start Windows Vista.

How did I solve it? I found this useful KB and a great tool: EasyBCD.

Next time I'll be smarter...

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