Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language. The new tool joins similar ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications to SQL Server 2012 databases using .NET classes. That article and its examples focused on .NET 4.0 desktop ...

SQL Server 2012 installed no problem, but I had to use the x86 version (I had tried the x64 version first and it didn’t work). The bad: to run my particular projects, I have to install the ASP ...

This article introduces the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) feature of Visual Studio 2013. This feature is used to manage databases using a source code first methodology.

Microsoft is expected this week to release the first beta of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 software development products. The software giant also plans to announce a low-cost edition ...

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

The new Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 consolidates three existing tools — the CPU Sampling tool (for .Net or C++ apps), the JavaScript Function timing tool, and the ...

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 ...