Earlier today I was doing a little work using datadude/DBPro/Visual Studio Database Tools/pick your name and had a need to write a Powershell script that I think might be useful to other folks so I’m sharing it here. Often when you’re putting together database projects you will have a need for multiple .sqlcmdvars files – one for each environment ...

Earlier today I had a need to get some information out of a Visual Studio project file and in this blog post I’m going to share a couple of ways of going about that because I’m pretty sure I won’t be the only person that ever wants to do this. The specific problem I was trying to solve was finding out how many objects in my database project (i.e. ...

Intro Of late I have been getting down and dirty with the Database Development tools in Visual Studio 2010. You may know this feature set by one of the plethora of other names it has had over recent years such as: Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals DBPro Datadude For the rest of this post I’ll stick with the colloquial ...