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March 7, 2013Mar 7, 201303/7/13This week we released two new sets of tools, which help Visual Studio 2012 users take advantage of the latest Microsoft development platforms.
SQL Server Data Tools
Yesterday we released SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 (or “SSDT BI” for short).
September 12, 2012Sep 12, 201209/12/12A few months ago, Soma announced plans for a Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Desktop. Today, we are happy to share that this new Express product is available for download. (You can find the system requirements and download details here.) This post is written by Jennifer Leaf,
April 4, 2011Apr 4, 201104/4/11By Jack Hu
As the word “code-first” implies, the EF 4.1 offers a code centric data programming paradigm. From a coder’s point of view, it requires little effort to map a very clean object model to a database. This style of programming is idea for explorative,
May 7, 2010May 7, 201005/7/10UPDATE: Most issues around MSBuild support for cross-bitness and 64-bit builds are fixed in .NET 4.5. As always, feedback is welcome! Please leave your comments in this blog post and report any bugs on Microsoft Connect.
During the Visual Studio 2010 development cycle a push to make the build experience better on Cross compilation scenarios as well on making sure a build using 32-bit MSBuild was identical (in outputs) to a build using 64-bit MSBuild.
September 30, 2009Sep 30, 200909/30/09You have probably already heard about the new dynamic feature in C# 4.0 and how it is used to support COM interop. If you haven’t, I strongly recommend reading the following MSDN articles: Using Type dynamic and How to: Access Office Interop Objects by Using Visual C# 2010 Features.
