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Visual Studio Gets Database Edition

By Nate Mook | Published May 31, 2006, 2:49 PM

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new addition to the Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Team Edition for Database Professionals. The product is designed to promote collaboration when building database driven applications, and is another step on the road to Visual Studio "Orcas."

Orcas is the next release of Visual Studio that will tie together SQL Server 2005, Windows Vista and Office 2007. It will bring support for Microsoft's new .NET LINQ query syntax and integrate "Atlas," the company's new tool for developing Web applications using AJAX.

In the meantime, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is designed for database architects, developers and administrators.

"It provides a foundation for change management, testing, offline database projects and deployment of databases through integrated functionality that enables database developers and administrators to be more productive, increase security and drive quality," a Microsoft spokesperson explained to BetaNews Wednesday.

The first Community Technology Preview of the new edition will be available on June 11 at Tech Ed in Boston. A final release is expected to ship by the end of 2006, and will cost approximately $5,469.

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ds0934
Jun 2, 2006 - 9:26 AM

Gees. What next. VS.NET premium ultimate enterprise small-business edition 2006 plus.

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guercheLE
Jun 1, 2006 - 7:34 PM edited

When I downloaded and installed SQL Server 2005 Express with Advanced Services and noted a copy of Visual Studio 2005 came bundled with it, I thought both products would get bundled together in next versions and now, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals come to stage. Amazing!

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Luciano Evaristo Guerche
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jshurst
Jun 1, 2006 - 7:59 AM

I hadn't heard about VS "Orcas." Sounds cool, but I wish that Atlas would've been integrated int VS2005 because AJAX is certainly already here. For anyone interested in using AJAX functionality in .net applications try Anthem.NET. You don't have to write the javascript yourself because it is already wired up to the server side events.

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