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Do you get lost in the myriad of tools that congregate under the banner of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)? Perhaps you don't, but I do! Today David Reed pointed me at a resource on MSDN that does a good job of unmuddying the waters as regards these tools. Head to Visual Studio 2005 Team Editions Comparison for an explanation of the ...

Here at Conchango there has been quite a bit of discussion by certain people (JRJ, Dan Perrin, Mick Horne amongst others) about how best to leverage the capabilities of Visual Studio Team System For Database Professionals (DBPro for short). It is generally believed that the cost of DBPro is prohibitive. Each seat requires a seperate ...

I found a bug in datadude yesterday and, with a little help, I was able to come up with a workaround so figured I'd post here in case anyone else comes up against it. In the RTM version of Datadude it is possible to specify the name of the database when it is deployed. As you can see here: Note the specified name of the database ...

I thought it would be useful to know the version numbers for all the various builds of datadude seeing as there is nothing in the installed product that tells you. Gert provided the information here which I'm sure he won't mind me copying into this blog: version 2.0.50727.354 is service release 1  (Power tools v1.0 does ...

When you build a datadude project the output is a .sql file that contains the name of the project, the name of the target server, and the name of the database. We (Andy and I) came across a problem where the name of the output file was too long for MSBuild, which is being used by our TFS builds to build .msi installers for our databases. ...

Some information here about licensing for DBPro from Matt Nunn. Hopefully he won't mind me re-posting here: If you purcahse data dude it automatically comes with a full MSDN subscription. If you are already an MSDN subscriber then you can get Data Dude. If you are a Universal subscriber you can elect one team edition product when you renew ...

A short word about today's massive release from Redmond... As if the world and his dog didn't know, Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals, is getting released today. This is great news for all us put-upon database developers that want to be treated as first class citizens in the software development lifecycle by ...

As one uses a new product he or she starts to learn all the intracacies that aren't obvious on the surface. And that is true of Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals (aka Datadude, aka DBPro) as well. Be aware of something that tripped me up today. Its easy to remove objects from the project and by and large datadude will ...

At 10am PST today (20th November) there is a webcast about datadude. TFS guru Jeff Atwood will be involved. Apologies for the late posting - but I've only just found out myself! -Jamie  

As reported in many places, most prominently here, CTP6 of Visual Studio team System for Database Professionals (VSTS4DBP aka Datadude) is now available. I can't tell you how glad I am about this because in my expereince CTP5 was bug-ridden and I know they have gone to great lengths to fix those bugs. I was expecting it yesterday and all ...