Database First: Importing an existing database into the EF Model Model First: Creating the model and using it to generate the database Code First: Using code classes to generate the database This ...

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

News First Look: DB4Objects Database By Will Kraft 11/20/2007 As a freelancer, I've had to work with databases quite often. In my earlier years, I worked with Microsoft Access, creating Visual Basic ...

Microsoft has announced the upcoming availability of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. This product is intended to close the communication gap that all too often exists ...

SQL Server Development Tools (SSDT), codenamed "Juneau", provide a new Visual Studio-based development environment for SQL Server. Some of its features are already available in Visual Studio 2010 ...

Quest Software, Inc., a Visual Studio Industry Partner and maker of Toad for Oracle, has announced the launch of Toad Extension for Visual Studio. Toad Extension for Visual Studio is a database schema ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

Microsoft says it's hard at work on a Visual Studio edition product targeted specifically at database developers and that it plans to ship it by year's end.