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In January 2007 I complained about the support for renaming fields in VS Tools for DB Professionals. It looks they have a good solution for it in their latest CTP (look in the Refactoring section). I did not find time to install VS2008 SP1 beta in a VM...
I started playing again with VSTDB. This version only includes on 'Refactoring', the 'Rename' one. The first thing I tried to do was to rename a database column. There are 3 things to do when doing that refactoring: Renaming it in the...
The wizards from Clarius released a 'Software Factories Toolkit' to help you building DSL/GAX-based tools. There's noone in the world that can do that better than them, so if you are doing DSL/GAX stuff, you should give it a look. The announcement...
Himalia looks very very interesting. It's built with Visual Studio DSL tools. It lets you model a UI based on Use Cases, Navigation Models and Presentation Models. They have an implementation that runs the models on top of WPF but the models are not...
The new VS for DB Professionals supports generating test data for your data model. For each column, you can specify the Generator you want to use, and you have a bunch of predefined ones (numbers in a range, strings that comply with a regular expression...
Gaston did it again, and the new VS Cool Commands make my life much easier.
Last week we released DeKlarit 4.0 . I won't post the new feature list here, as you can read it in the website . What I will do is tell you about my favorite new features ;). Gaston built a great platform-independent layout editor . We can now generate...
Microsoft is shipping T4, an ASP-like template engine. It's included in the 'Guidance Automation Extensions' and with the DSL tools package now part of the Visual Studio SDK, so it's free. Actually, it looks it maybe redistributable, and in that case...
Today was the last day of the SC-BAT Workshop in Building 20 . The PAG team basically showed the stuff they are building using the CAB and GAT . We've been using the CAB for a while and it rocks. It's not simple to grasp but once you got the basic concepts...
I liked it. It was fun, and we finally know the VS 2005 and SQL 2005 release date. He also announced that Reporting Services will be available for SQLExpress, which means there's no reason to not to use it. Report Builder will be in Standard Edition,...
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