Microsoft has revealed some details about what's next for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Customers should expect ...

This in-depth guide discusses the features & editions of Visual Studio - Free Community edition for students, Professional version & Enterprise edition. A feature comparison has also been carried out.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

Visual Studio 2022 runs very smoothly. IIS can be enabled just by checking the options in the “turn Windows features on or off dialog,” just like on x86 Windows.

Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.