New GDR Announced for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Posted By: Brian Keller | Jun 3rd @ 5:52 AM
We caught up with Gert Drapers to get the inside scoop on the new General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. The GDR was announced this week at TechEd Developers and provides the following added capabilities:
- Support for SQL Server 2008
- Partial / Composite project types
- New Build & Deploy model
- All prior Power Tools releases
- Dependency Viewer
- and more...

A Community Technology Preview for this GDR may be downloaded from here.

For the highest quality viewing experience of this video+screencast we recommend viewing the high-quality WMV.
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#Jun 3rd @ 8:50 AM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
Intreasting stuff.   A quick question, I use this for developing the database for one of our more shrink wrap type of applications, will I be able to use the deployment engine in a WiX based installer? 
#Jun 3rd @ 9:10 AM
System
System
We just released a new Channel 9 interview that covers the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
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#Jun 3rd @ 12:33 PM
gertd
gertd

The deployment engine is two .NET assemblies, one core and one provider assembly.

However there is no direct way to run managed custom actions from an installer, which is what you would have to write to make this work. The reason why the installer folks do not like this is the unexpected behavior if you load mixed version assemblies from the same host.

The supported way will be to run a command line version from a custom action in WiX. We will provide a command line shell, vsdbcmd.exe, which will be able to deploy a .DBSCHEMA file. I will be demonstrate this on Friday at TechEd in my session TLA320.

-GertD

#Jun 3rd @ 4:32 PM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase

Hopefully your talk will find it's way online at somepoint, sounds just what I need.  I have found the DBPro very useful but using the output to deploy to an end clients system in a nice wrap up installer has always been a stumbling block unlike our connected internal systems which are a breeze.
#Jun 3rd @ 8:17 PM
JoshRoss
JoshRoss
The quality of the video is wonderful!  I'm looking forward to using this product.  As a side note, I had a hell of a time trying to get this comment in.  Can we go back to the old site?
#Jun 3rd @ 8:29 PM
gertd
gertd
I will record a Camtasia once I am back in Redmond.
-GertD