Leeds SQL Usergroup

Published 17 July 08 10:32 AM | Richard

Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event.

The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

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# MartinRandall said on July 17, 2008 01:25 PM:

Hi Richard,

Good presentation - I found it interesting. I get the impression that VSDE is still very much a 'work in progress' product and it will take a number of iterations before it becomes a truly useful tool. Storing SQL files in the source control has always been possible and I remember using database projects in VS2003 to do just that. The schema comparison and test data generation functionality is available in other tools for a fraction of the price of MSDE and the database 'unit testing' is umm... interesting. There is clearly some awkwardness when dealing with schema and project views.

It's a shame that the database projects are treated in isolation. For instance, LINQ-to-SQL .DBML files are created by dragging a database schema onto a designer. Would it be nice if I could link (no pun intended) that to my database project so that when I change my schema, my .DBML file is also updated. Maybe one day...

Anyway - good presentation. As a consultant who has introduced my current client to all things Team System, I'm interested in any other presentations you have and I'll be watching your blog from now on for any nuggets of information.

# MartinRandall said on July 17, 2008 01:27 PM:

Oooh... one other thing. What was the gadget you were using on your mobile to control the PowerPoint slides? It looked interesting...

# Richard said on July 17, 2008 02:53 PM:

The PowerPoint SideShow controller is the 'SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview' and can be found at blogs.msdn.com/.../sideshow-on-windows-mobile-released-techready-2008.aspx.

Don't know if you noticed I swapped back to my old presenter mouse at the break. Old habits die hard and I found I was not looking at the screen on my phone anyway. I will see how it goes in the future. I do like the fact it has better range as it is bluetooth unlike my old controller.

As to the use of DataDude, I think you have some valid points, but I would suggest you judge it after looking at the GDR build (blogs.msdn.com/.../vsts-2008-database-edition-gdr-june-ctp.aspx), which has had many changes after feedback from users just like yourself.

# Richard said on July 19, 2008 10:01 AM:

Just seen that a new CTP is avalable for the GDR - details at blogs.msdn.com/.../ctp-15-is-here.aspx

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