Database Edition Custom Rule
One of the coolest feature of Visual Studio Database Edition is the ability to run Rules against a database project, like fxcop against a c# project. And the coolest part about this feature is that is really simple to write a custom rule. Rules are important, I’ve seen project where there is no naming rule for objects in database, and so yo

Try visual studio beta with windows 7 with xp mode
This is not a new tip, it was already gave by many others, but it worth mentioning again. When you want to try beta software the best solution is using a virtual machine, to avoid the installer to break your dev machine. With windows7 you have another option, the

VS2010 lab management blog
I really believe that Lab Management is the most exiting stuff introduced with VS2010, and I’m happy that it has a dedicated blog, take a look at it Alk. Tags:

Wcf over https, authentication with asp.net membership
In last article I explained how to configure WCF to secure a service with https, with no authentication, now I want to show you the configuration needed to enable role and user membership using a standard asp

vsdbcmd.exe, overriding variable value
When you deploy a database project with the command line utility vsdbcmd.exe you may want to change the value of some variables of the project. Suppose you’ve created a variable called Path1