I have a VS2008 project that is being converted to VS2010. This solution has a MsTest test project used to run database test against a Database project. After conversion you need to target the 4.0 framework for the test project, you run the test and you get Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.InvalidProjectFileException: Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.InvalidProjectFileException: The expression "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0VSTSDB@VSTSDBDirectory" cannot be evaluated. [...]
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One of the coolest feature of Database Projects in VS2008 is the ability to synchronize the database project with a physical instance of SQL server. This is useful if not all people from the team have the ability to run a database project (this is solved in vs2010 where database project are available even in [...]
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If you want to deploy a database project into a target sql server instance during a tfs 2010 build, you can use with success the basic MsBuildTask, similar to tfs2008. I decided to deploy the database, only if the tests are ok and the build is ok, so I place a condition activity under the [...]
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Custom Rule for database projects is one of my favorite extension point of Visual Studio 2008, and I blogged about it some time ago. Yesterday I tried to convert my sample rule for visual studio 2010 beta2, and there are a lot of things that are changed. The result will be a simple rule that [...]
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