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By Hannes Du Preez

SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.4 & 4.5 – Visual Guide of new features After more than 470.000 downloads, version 4.5 of my SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later is now available for download and available via Tools/Extensions and Updates in Visual Studio. Visual Studio IDE Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code To continue downloading, click here SQL Server Data Tools Visual Studio 2020-08-28T11:50:50-07:00. ExportSqlCE.zip - SQL Compact 3.5 command line utility to generate a script with schema and data ExportSqlCE31.zip- SQL Compact 3.1 command line utility to generate a script with schema and data SqlCeScripting.zip- SqlCeScripting.NET library (for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and 4.0), for easy inclusion of scripting in your own application. SQL Compact Toolbox is a third-party tool. The Lansweeper support team cannot troubleshoot potential issues with this tool. Run the Toolbox executable as an administrator on your Lansweeper server. Right-click No SQL Server Compact Data Connections found and choose Add SQL Server Compact 4.0 Connection. Apr 29, 2020 Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 is a free, embedded database that software developers can use for building ASP.NET websites and Windows desktop applications. SQL Server Compact 4.0 has a small footprint and supports private deployment of its binaries within the application folder, easy application development in Visual Studio and WebMatrix, and seamless migration of schema and data to SQL Server.

Visual Studio 2019 is a massive step forward in the developer spectrum. Not only has it shifted a lot of boundaries, but it has also made it easier to extend its interface. In this article you will see tools – rather, extensions or add-ons - that can be added to the Visual Studio 2019 IDE to improve your database experience irrespective of what database it is. You should find these quite tools useful.

MySQL Editor for Visual Studio

Being a part time programming teacher, I always try to have good samples for students. Unfortunately, I am quite forgetful, so there are many times when I quickly need to edit a MySQL query. This is where the My SQL Editor for Visual Studio is a handy little extension. As its name implies, it is a MySQL editor, complete with the necessary coloring of keywords. This editor is not stand-alone; it is part of Visual Studio (as it is an extension).

You can run and edit queries to selected databases. This is quite handy if you do not have MySQL installed somewhere, but still need to work. You can download the MySQL Editor for Visual Studio here. After it has been downloaded, you can double click the VSIX file to install the extension.

After the installation is completed, you can ensure that it is installed by clicking Tools, Extensions and Updates. It should resemble Figure 1


Figure 1: MySQL Editor Extension

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In order to make use of this extension, you obviously need MySQL code. If you do not have MySQL code already, then you can navigate to this sample website and download the sample database

Save this file with a .mysql extension.

In your Solution Explorer, Right click and add the MySQL file. Once opened, the screen would resemble Figure 2


Figure 2: MySQL Editor in action

Database .NET

Database .NET is very powerful multiple database management tool. It includes support for the following databases or database objects:

  • Access
  • Excel
  • DBase
  • FoxPro
  • Access
  • Excel
  • DBase
  • FoxPro
  • FireBird
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • SQL Azure
  • SQLCE
  • SQLite
  • PostGreSQL
  • Oracle
  • OLE DB
  • ODBC
  • OData
  • DB2
  • Informix
  • Sybase ASE
  • NuoDB
  • Teradata
  • Vertica
  • Text

Database .NET is an external tool, so it doesn't run in the Visual Studio IDE. With it you can design tables, run queries, edit rows and generate scripts. You can download it here.

It is a stand-alone exe, so after you have unzipped the file, you can directly run the program. It resembles Figure 3 underneath.


Figure 3: Database .NET

SQLite for Windows Runtime

SQLite implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, T-SQL database engine. It also can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Once downloaded, run the VSIX file. This will resemble Figure 4


Figure 4: SQLite for Windows Runtime Installation

Conclusion

These are just some of the wonderful database tools available to you for use with Visual Studio 2019. There are many more that might be presented in a future DatabaseJournal article.

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In this blog post, we will look into a useful must-have Visual Studio 2019 extensions for database projects that help you in building database related queries and ORM related development with great ease.

Visual Studio is one of the best developer friendly Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE has tons of features that help to ease the development process. These features can be further customized or new features can be added using Visual Studio Extensions. These extensions are available at Visual Studio Marketplace. Here is the list of top 5 extensions that will be discussed in the blog post.

List of Visual Studio 2019 Extensions for Database projects

Sql Visual Studio

  • SQL Search by Redgate
  • Entity Framework Visual Editor
  • SQLite/SQL Server Compact Toolbox
  • LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler
  • LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler
Sql

A brief discussion of these extensions

SQL Search by Redgate: The extension help you quickly search and navigate across multiple SQL Server database objects. The features provided by the extensions are, quickly find fragments in SQL tables, views, stored procedures, functions, views, scheduled jobs. The user can search using wildcards and booleans and can find references to an object. The same extension can also be used in SQL Server Management Studio as well. The extension has been downloaded more than 135K.

Entity Framework Visual Editor: The is one of my favorites extension, it allows to see the visual design of the entities (persistent classes) along with the fast and easy way to add new model files. The entities hierarchy and cardinalities like Inheritence, one to many, many to many are cleanly depicted in the visual editor. A few of the other good features of this extension are the abilities to import entities from existing C# source, compiled DbContext from EF6 and EFCore assemblies, generate output from T4 templates. Classes and enumeration are displayed in different color schemes to visually group the model and many others. The extension also has a great step by step documentation to get the most from the editor.

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SQLite/SQL Server Compact Toolbox: If you use embedded databases like SQLite or SQL Server compact edition for development purposes then this extension will really stand out for you. The extension provides a very convenient to script tables and data, helps in migrating from SQLite or SQL Server Compact to SQL Server (LocalDB/Express) or SQL Server or SQL Azure via script. The extension can be used to explore all the database objects, SQL queries can be executed from within the editor, it supports syntax coloring and has built-in support for displaying query estimates and actual plans. The extension can also be used to generate LINQ to SQL classes and much more.

EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator: This is another great extension that has been downloaded and installed more than 424K times. The extension allows a developer to reverse engineer an existing database and generate POCO (Plain Old C# Class) classes, configuration mappings, and the DBContext class. At the time of writing SQL Server, SQL Server Compact 3.5 and 4.0 are supported.

LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler: The extension provides very useful features for LINQ and ORM development. It provides design-time LINQ query execution and supports preview of generated SQL statements. It can help in profiling data access events for ORMs like Entity Framework, NHibernate, LinqConnect and LINQ to SQL mappings. Few of the benefits provided by the extension are, it fully integrates with Visual Studio and you can view SQL to LINQ queries with leaving the IDE, you can perform Query Analysis, it detects changes in the database context and queries and even provides variable value replacement and the best of all you can preview generated SQL at design time.

This concludes the post about my list of top must-have Visual Studio 2019 extensions for database projects, I hope you found this post helpful, thanks for visiting, Cheers!!!

Visual

By Hannes Du Preez

SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.4 & 4.5 – Visual Guide of new features After more than 470.000 downloads, version 4.5 of my SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2010 and later is now available for download and available via Tools/Extensions and Updates in Visual Studio. Visual Studio IDE Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code To continue downloading, click here SQL Server Data Tools Visual Studio 2020-08-28T11:50:50-07:00. ExportSqlCE.zip - SQL Compact 3.5 command line utility to generate a script with schema and data ExportSqlCE31.zip- SQL Compact 3.1 command line utility to generate a script with schema and data SqlCeScripting.zip- SqlCeScripting.NET library (for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and 4.0), for easy inclusion of scripting in your own application. SQL Compact Toolbox is a third-party tool. The Lansweeper support team cannot troubleshoot potential issues with this tool. Run the Toolbox executable as an administrator on your Lansweeper server. Right-click No SQL Server Compact Data Connections found and choose Add SQL Server Compact 4.0 Connection. Apr 29, 2020 Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 is a free, embedded database that software developers can use for building ASP.NET websites and Windows desktop applications. SQL Server Compact 4.0 has a small footprint and supports private deployment of its binaries within the application folder, easy application development in Visual Studio and WebMatrix, and seamless migration of schema and data to SQL Server.

Visual Studio 2019 is a massive step forward in the developer spectrum. Not only has it shifted a lot of boundaries, but it has also made it easier to extend its interface. In this article you will see tools – rather, extensions or add-ons - that can be added to the Visual Studio 2019 IDE to improve your database experience irrespective of what database it is. You should find these quite tools useful.

MySQL Editor for Visual Studio

Being a part time programming teacher, I always try to have good samples for students. Unfortunately, I am quite forgetful, so there are many times when I quickly need to edit a MySQL query. This is where the My SQL Editor for Visual Studio is a handy little extension. As its name implies, it is a MySQL editor, complete with the necessary coloring of keywords. This editor is not stand-alone; it is part of Visual Studio (as it is an extension).

You can run and edit queries to selected databases. This is quite handy if you do not have MySQL installed somewhere, but still need to work. You can download the MySQL Editor for Visual Studio here. After it has been downloaded, you can double click the VSIX file to install the extension.

After the installation is completed, you can ensure that it is installed by clicking Tools, Extensions and Updates. It should resemble Figure 1


Figure 1: MySQL Editor Extension

Visual Studio For Mac Sql Compact Toolbox Windows 10

In order to make use of this extension, you obviously need MySQL code. If you do not have MySQL code already, then you can navigate to this sample website and download the sample database

Save this file with a .mysql extension.

In your Solution Explorer, Right click and add the MySQL file. Once opened, the screen would resemble Figure 2


Figure 2: MySQL Editor in action

Database .NET

Database .NET is very powerful multiple database management tool. It includes support for the following databases or database objects:

  • Access
  • Excel
  • DBase
  • FoxPro
  • Access
  • Excel
  • DBase
  • FoxPro
  • FireBird
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • SQL Azure
  • SQLCE
  • SQLite
  • PostGreSQL
  • Oracle
  • OLE DB
  • ODBC
  • OData
  • DB2
  • Informix
  • Sybase ASE
  • NuoDB
  • Teradata
  • Vertica
  • Text

Database .NET is an external tool, so it doesn't run in the Visual Studio IDE. With it you can design tables, run queries, edit rows and generate scripts. You can download it here.

It is a stand-alone exe, so after you have unzipped the file, you can directly run the program. It resembles Figure 3 underneath.


Figure 3: Database .NET

SQLite for Windows Runtime

SQLite implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, T-SQL database engine. It also can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Once downloaded, run the VSIX file. This will resemble Figure 4


Figure 4: SQLite for Windows Runtime Installation

Conclusion

These are just some of the wonderful database tools available to you for use with Visual Studio 2019. There are many more that might be presented in a future DatabaseJournal article.




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Latest Forum Threads
MS SQL Forum
TopicByRepliesUpdated
SQL 2005: SSIS: Error using SQL Server credentialspoverty3August 17th, 07:43 AM
Need help changing table contentsnkawtg1August 17th, 03:02 AM
SQL Server Memory confifurationbhosalenarayan2August 14th, 05:33 AM
SQL Server – Primary Key and a Unique Keykatty.jonh2July 25th, 10:36 AM

In this blog post, we will look into a useful must-have Visual Studio 2019 extensions for database projects that help you in building database related queries and ORM related development with great ease.

Visual Studio is one of the best developer friendly Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE has tons of features that help to ease the development process. These features can be further customized or new features can be added using Visual Studio Extensions. These extensions are available at Visual Studio Marketplace. Here is the list of top 5 extensions that will be discussed in the blog post.

List of Visual Studio 2019 Extensions for Database projects

Sql Visual Studio

  • SQL Search by Redgate
  • Entity Framework Visual Editor
  • SQLite/SQL Server Compact Toolbox
  • LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler
  • LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler

A brief discussion of these extensions

SQL Search by Redgate: The extension help you quickly search and navigate across multiple SQL Server database objects. The features provided by the extensions are, quickly find fragments in SQL tables, views, stored procedures, functions, views, scheduled jobs. The user can search using wildcards and booleans and can find references to an object. The same extension can also be used in SQL Server Management Studio as well. The extension has been downloaded more than 135K.

Entity Framework Visual Editor: The is one of my favorites extension, it allows to see the visual design of the entities (persistent classes) along with the fast and easy way to add new model files. The entities hierarchy and cardinalities like Inheritence, one to many, many to many are cleanly depicted in the visual editor. A few of the other good features of this extension are the abilities to import entities from existing C# source, compiled DbContext from EF6 and EFCore assemblies, generate output from T4 templates. Classes and enumeration are displayed in different color schemes to visually group the model and many others. The extension also has a great step by step documentation to get the most from the editor.

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SQLite/SQL Server Compact Toolbox: If you use embedded databases like SQLite or SQL Server compact edition for development purposes then this extension will really stand out for you. The extension provides a very convenient to script tables and data, helps in migrating from SQLite or SQL Server Compact to SQL Server (LocalDB/Express) or SQL Server or SQL Azure via script. The extension can be used to explore all the database objects, SQL queries can be executed from within the editor, it supports syntax coloring and has built-in support for displaying query estimates and actual plans. The extension can also be used to generate LINQ to SQL classes and much more.

EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator: This is another great extension that has been downloaded and installed more than 424K times. The extension allows a developer to reverse engineer an existing database and generate POCO (Plain Old C# Class) classes, configuration mappings, and the DBContext class. At the time of writing SQL Server, SQL Server Compact 3.5 and 4.0 are supported.

LINQ Insight Express ORM Profiler: The extension provides very useful features for LINQ and ORM development. It provides design-time LINQ query execution and supports preview of generated SQL statements. It can help in profiling data access events for ORMs like Entity Framework, NHibernate, LinqConnect and LINQ to SQL mappings. Few of the benefits provided by the extension are, it fully integrates with Visual Studio and you can view SQL to LINQ queries with leaving the IDE, you can perform Query Analysis, it detects changes in the database context and queries and even provides variable value replacement and the best of all you can preview generated SQL at design time.

This concludes the post about my list of top must-have Visual Studio 2019 extensions for database projects, I hope you found this post helpful, thanks for visiting, Cheers!!!

If you want to explore all the available Visual Studio 2019 extensions for databases, you can visit the Visual Studio Marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/

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