Prior to this, the BI templates were available only in Visual Studio 2010, SSDT 2010 or SQL Server 2012. The new release will be installed through the SQL Server 2012 setup tool as a shared service ...

Get Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012, then download it. The installer should start and any updates should be included.

Microsoft recently updated SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with support for Visual Studio 2012, improved LocalDB functionality and new SSDT Power Tools. SSDT, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a ...

Spatial queries performance improvements. SQL Server 2012 SP4 can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center and will be arriving soon for Visual Studio subscribers. With this final official ...

A near-final test build of a previously unexpected Update 4 for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 is available for download.

The final versions of Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Visual Studio 2013 will be out by the end of calendar 2013, officials confirmed earlier this month.

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.