I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro that I’m looking to replace sooner or later with an equivalent M1 MacBook Pro (most likely the 14”). However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements.

I've been playing around with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and although many have complained about missing features compared to the "Data Dude" Visual Studio projects and other tools that SSDT ...

Free assessments, e-learning packages for developers to understand their abilities with new Microsoft software to be released in November. For developers who are gearing up on pre-release information ...

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 ...

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. Last week, ...

The theme of Ballmer's keynote address was integration, but it was the move by a fictitious coffee company to integrate a recent application and set up the infrastructure for a promotion campaign that ...

With the assistance of a heavily armed and battle-ready robot, Microsoft Corp. executive Paul Flessner today promised that new versions of the company’s enterprise database, application development ...

Microsoft on Monday held its highly-touted launch event to deliver SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, release a community technology preview (CTP) of BizTalk Server 2006 and make available ...