I.2.4. Application Development
SQL Server 2008, as was the case with several earlier incarnations, is tightly coupled with Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio development product. Although programmers are free to use any modern development technology, they likely find that the combination of Visual Studio and SQL Server is hard to beat from a productivity and functionality perspective. This interdependency goes far beyond traditional application programming paradigms, however, because Visual Studio is at the heart of many other types of SQL Server-related projects. For example, Figure 2-2 shows the Visual Studio user interface for creating a collection of different types of solutions.
Figure I.2-2. Creating a new project in Visual Studio.
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