There is a great little post on this morning's IEBlog that talks about the (relatively) new Consolas font and how to enable it for use in a command prompt! Here's an excerpt from the post... Bryn Spears on the Internet Explorer team gave me the following simple instructions to turn on Consolas...

My team has been using VS DBPro (DataDude) for a little over six months now and I thought I give you an update on how we use this tool in a "mixed" environment (SQL Management Studio & DataDude), what we like and what we'd like to see in future releases. Using SQL Management Studio...

UPDATE! Gert Drapers [MSFT] has posted a much more thorough explanation of refreshing and resyncing the schema view. Take a look! To Synchronize or To Refresh? Here's a quick tip for those of us using VSTEDP (DataDude) for database development and TFS (Team Foundation Server) for source control....

I know this has been posted before but the very best place to find information on Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (DataDude as Gert Drapers calls it) is on the Database Professional Team Center web site! There are a lot of links to great video content, on-demand webcasts, technical...

One of the things I like best about Team Foundation Server is the ability to structure our entire "data warehouse solution" as a TFS Project and to match this structure in Source Control. For us, this includes our Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (VSTEDP) projects and any...

I watched a really great Channel 9 video yesterday (filmed by Brian Keller and starring Doug Neumann) about Team Foundation Server source control branching and merging strategies . Doug is the TFS Group Program Manager and does the best overall job explaining TFS source control branching and merging...

It seems like just last week that I was installing another CTP of "Data Dude" and playing around with the schema compare and unit test features. It's hard to believe that we've already implemented the RTM version and are using it constantly in our day to day work. What a difference...

Wow! Judging from the number of hits on my last post regarding the new Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals , there must be a lot of interest in this upcoming product! So I'm gonna dive right in with another post and give you some additional ideas on how this cool new product can...

I want to apologize for not posting some really great technical stuff lately but it's been a really busy summer here in Houston and I've been swamped with projects, Projects, PROJECTS! So I thought I'd give you a brief rundown on the new and (hopefully) exciting technologies I've been...

Sometimes You Have to Write Some Code! That's right. You heard me. Sometimes you have to roll up your sleeves and write some code. Even using Commerce Server 2007! I've been pretty amazed how full featured and complete Commerce Server 2007 is and how little custom code I had to write to get my e-commerce...