Also addressing a big complaint that LINQ to SQL didn't let developers detach entities, PlinqO supports detaching of entities, he said. The templates are free to those CodeSmith tools users (the ...

CodeSmith released Professional LINQ to Objects, a set of templates to be used with CodeSmith and Visual Studio 2008 that supplement Microsoft's upcoming LINQ to SQL and have many great features ...

Another deciding factor is LINQ to SQL's one-to-one mapping of tables to EntitySets. If you are in control of -- or can exert substantial influence on -- the SQL Server database schema and domain ...

Back in July we reported that LINQ to SQL was transferred to the SQL Data Programmability team. This event raised a lot of concern in the developer community, who worried that work on LINQ to SQL ...

Much of what's in the Visual Studio 11 IDE has been available for some time already in the form of Power Tools extensions to Visual Studio 2010. However, through Visual Studio 11, those extensions are ...

Development: Visual Studio didn't have a uniform database project system and workflow to create data-tier applications and author Transact-SQL code. Developers expressed the need for an ability to ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

How Do I Open The Business Intelligence Development Studio In Visual Studio 2015? BI Developer Extensions for Visual Studio 2015 are available in the Visual Studio Marketplace in a web browser here.

“Delivering Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the SQL Server 2005 April CTP to customers is a milestone because it indicates that we have entered the final stages of the development cycle for both ...