Do you use database projects in Visual Studio? If not, then now is a good time to start. It is the best way I have found to source control my databases without actually sticking the database file itself in the repository. It is very simple to add to your solution and creates a default directory structure for your create scripts, change scripts and queries. Best of all the project will be recognized by source control and added to the source code repository. This means you can keep versioned scripts for maint... [More]

So after the installation of VisualSVN 1.4, I don't think I'll ever look back. Finally a version of Visual Studio source control integration to make me leave the realms of Visual Source Safe forever. Now VisualSVN has put all the most important commands one click away. Not to mention, they added a couple things to make life a little easier for SVN newbies like myself.   Here we will go over some of my favorite new features added to this newest release. If you are familiar with the S... [More]

You a Visual Studio user? A lot of us are. If you are the only develoer working on a project, then you have the luxury of choosing your own format for your code files. Cleaning up code files when working in a team however, can be much more difficult. Especially when you run into files that everything seems like it is everywhere! Methods, properties and fields just strewn throughout the code file without any rhyme or reason of their positioning in the code file. Well, if you are a C# programmer and you hav... [More]