TFS Express 11 beta installation also includes SQL Express installation for its database. Can I redirect it to a shared SQL 2008 server or was it designed to work with SQL Express exclusively?
You should be able to use it with a normal MS SQL Server as well, there is no Feature that Express has that a normal one does not. It is simply bundled with the Express version since it not necessary to have a normal SQL Server.
Also, why should MS stop you from paying a license for at least one of the two products ;)
UPDATE
Apparently I was wrong, at least in the beta it is NOT possible to use anything else but the SQL Express, the others are explicitly not supported.
See here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/02/23/coming-soon-tfs-express.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chaks/archive/2012/03/05/getting-started-with-tfs-11-express-beta.aspx
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i have a Mvc 4 project i would like to publish on a windows server 2012. On the windows server 2012 i have setup IIS 8 and Sql express. Do you know of a good guide to set this up? My issue is that i can't get the database working. I would like to make it so i can easily publish changes to the website. Any ideas how to do this?
is it possible to setup Visual studios on the server for the nuget package console?
the only way i have got this working was to copy the entire database to sql express but if i change anything i have to do it agian. Not a very stable solution.
Best regards John,
It's not exactly clear what the problem is, but I'll try to give a couple of pointers.
First, nuget shouldn't be involved in the deployment per se; it's involved when building the project, but once you get a deployment package it should contain everything the project needs - look at setting up the deployment using the visual studio built in tools, i.e. see this MSDN link.
The database is a separate side of this. You say you can't 'get it working' which I can't really help with since there's no details - you need to be familiar with connection strings and change your connection string during the deployment so your app can connect to the right database. The publishing wizard linked above can help with this as well, or you can use config transforms, or any number of other mechanisms.
Documentation here has details about what you can do on the database side. The publishing wizard (when using web deploy) can read the database schema and even make schema comparisons so you can deploy schema updates, but I've never actually used that solution - I usually need more control over what happens so I manage my schema upgrade and downgrade scripts myself.
Since there are many problems compounded in this question I suggest you ask a separate, more focused, question about each one.
I've installed Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010 and use it to connect Oracle PL/SQL developer (ver 7.1.5) to TFS 2010.
now the problem is that the operations that require TFS (check-in, check-out,..., etc) is very slow and causing the PL/SQL environment to hang for a while (in some cases it hangs for more that 5 minutes).
My question is that is this a known issue for MSSCCI? and what I can do to overcome the slowness problem.
please ask this question on the msdn forum http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsversioncontrol as the developers working on msscci are actively monitoring it. Afaik, Oracle Pl/SQL was not tested with msscci provider so this would be a new issue. The most probable issue is that Oracle Developer is quering file status very frequently, which hits the server every time, you can confirm it using tracing (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michalma/archive/2006/12/08/tracing-in-tfs-msscci-provider.aspx)
I'm starting a new project, and this must be done in Delphi, so we get Rad Studio XE (not XE2). I have never wrote code in Delphi, I'm a C#.NET-MSSQL experienced programmer, that's why this project is exciting.
For DB, we cannot afford MSSQL, but the Express Edition is not leaved. So, we choose PostgreSQL, we have very excellent references about it. And I found it quite interesting.
But here comes the problem, the provider for the connection. I began research for this problem, and I found many options, there are some products with commercial license (AnyDac, and others). But we can't afford them. Then I found Zeoslib. Maybe it is what we're looking for, however, I can't find it and install it for XE. In the sourceforge portal, the latest version (it's an alpha), only works until Delphi14 (XE is Delphi15).
I've read too, that it requires to be compiled for the install (I need a step by step for dummies manual :D). But, this makes me doubt. How it will be deployed on the client. Is it a dll?
The project is a desktop application which connects to a server (DBMS), using CRUD statements, maybe some sprocs, ans that's all. Of course there will be more than 1 client. Just reading, updating deleting, etc..., but not at the same time, so traffic, concurrency is not a big problem.
In NET, I use the sqlclient namespace create connections, commands and that's all. I've found in Delphi the TSQL, TADO, and other objects like that. So it will be not hard at all.
So we're planning to use MSSQL Express instead.
But before that:
Is there another option to connect my RAD XE app with Postgres?
If someone knows how to enable zeoslib, can u tell me?
How is zeoslib distributed with my app in many PC's?
or
Is MSSQL Express a good choice for this project? (It's not big after all)
After reading, MySQL uses zeoslib too, and of course, the commercial providers. That's why we discarded it, among other reasons.
A component library, like ZeosLib or AnyDAC, requires to compile it into binary packages (BPL) to install into RAD Studio IDE. A libray itself may be either statically linked into EXE (nothing from library to deploy), or EXE may be built with run-time packages (you need to deploy library run-time packages). Additionally you will need to deploy libpq.dll - PostgreSQL client software.
If you know SQL Server, then use SQL Server Express edition. And probably stay with dbGo (ADO) components. PostgreSQL is quite different from SQL Server in many aspects, so you will need to spend the time to learn PostgreSQL. Which will be far more expensive than commercial libraries.
Zeos trunk works fine with Delphi XE. Don't let the "trunk" bit scare you. The mutation count is not that high.
Is there a way to connect to an Informix database using Sql Management studio? Are there any open source / free clients that can be used?
You can try sqldbx which should work with Informix and is free for single connection use. according to their faq it works with Informix:
http://www.sqldbx.com/faq.htm
We recently upgraded a major application to Visual Studio 2010.
Unfortunately, we are still using several database servers that are still running SQL Server 2000 (8.0.2055 to be precise).
According to this article (Link), "Since mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 ended on 04/08/2008, Visual Studio 2010 will only support debugging SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.
We have a lot of stored procedures that we keep in Source Control and execute them from within Visual Studio whenever we need to update them.
Is there any way around this restriction? 3rd-party tool, anything.
While researching this, I saw a few sites that indicate an ODBC connection could be used to get to the SQL2000 box. I was able to create a System DSN and then a Data Connection within VS2010, but am unable to connect to it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Chris
The only way I've found so far is to extract our data library out of the project and keep it in VS 2008 targeted at 3.5 while we're building it. Once it's complete and ready, we open up the primary project in VS 2010, check out the changed files and then use the file system to copy the changed files over.
We then keep the supplementary 3.5 project in source control parallel to the primary project.
They will still build and function in .Net 4.0, but we have found that the IDE will not accept any connections or commands to them.