Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

If your VS 2008/Compact 3.5 application then attempts to open a 3.1 database, you get the following exception: "The database file has been created by an earlier version of SQL Server Compact.

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 comes nearly a year after the first Beta (a Community Technology Preview, as Microsoft terms it), and the full official release is still some months away.

Microsoft with Visual Studio 2008 is offering enhancements in every edition of the product, including Visual Studio Express for hobbyists and Visual Studio Team System for team-based development.

The Visual Studio Shell will be available to Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) partners with Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and will be available to the broader development community with the ...