Sorry this is a little late. Two important things about the GDR for Data Dude. 1. No more design-time databases. 2. There is now a provider model for databases. This is how they will support DB2 when then GDR is released and how they will also support Oracle in the near future. From Gert Drapers: The team is happy to announce that we just released CTP16, of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release. ... This release adds the following features: VSDBCMD.EXE We added independent...

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Readify, an Australian company, has launched the world's first hosted Team Foundation Server product offering. It allows you to access you TFS server from anywhere in the world without having to make a big investment in infrastructure and licensing. This is pretty cool if you think about companies that may be doing right-shoring, or have teams that are spread all over the globe. If you have ever had to work through connectivity issues with a VPN and disparate teams, run (don't walk) and check this...

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Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product team û This Wednesday Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new in Beta 2. We will be holding two sessions: Join the chat on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones ááááááááááá -or- Join...

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 will be able to run on SQL server 2008. While continuing to support SQL Server 2005, VSTS will not take advantage of any of the new features of Katmai, but future releases will. Time to start looking at Katmai! Happy Coding

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A buddy of mine just created a newáweb site for .Net.á He is looking for bloggers and article writers.á If you are interested check it out at www.codearticles.com. Happy Coding

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I had an interesting issue with Visual Studio recently. I installed the SQL Server 2005 Management studio before I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. Once I installed Visual Studio, I had nothing under the VB or C# Project Types when I created a new project (File | New Project). The fix to this issue is very simple. Close Visual Studio. Go to the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt. Type devenv.exe /installvstemplate. Problem Solved! Happy Coding...

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I had an interesting issue with Visual Studio recently. I installed the SQL Server 2005 Management studio before I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. Once I installed Visual Studio, I had nothing under the VB or C# Project Types when I created a new project (File | New Project). The fix to this issue is very simple. Close Visual Studio. Go to the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt. Type devenv.exe /installvstemplate. Problem Solved! Happy Coding...

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