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Category: Visual Studio

  • Visual Studio Database Projects and the Problem with Reference Data (Part Two)

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    Visual Studio Database Projects and the Problem with Reference Data (Part Two)

    In my previous post, I discussed the difficulties of saving reference data in a Visual Studio Database Project. In this post, I’ll go over the architecture of one way this problem can be solved. While doing some research on this topic I ran across this StackOverflow question “How do you store static data in your…

  • Visual Studio Database Projects and the Problem With Reference Data (Part One)

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    Visual Studio Database Projects and the Problem With Reference Data (Part One)

    I’ll be honest. I wasn’t a fan of Visual Studio Database Projects. I still believe that designing databases using a data modeling tool like ER/Studio or ERwin is the very best way to build a database. But after taking a hard look at the Database Project project template I’ve changed my tune. There are some…

  • Changing T4 Template Background Colors in Visual Studio

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    Changing T4 Template Background Colors in Visual Studio

    T4 is a templating engine inside of Visual Studio that lets you generate, well, text. Since T4 has no editor goodies in Visual Studio the Tangible T4 Editor is a good way to get some of the goodies back. But if you’re using the “dark” theme in Visual Studio the Tangible T4 Editor needs a color change.…