Chapter IV.4. Working with Visual Studio
We admit it. We think databases are cool. Call us nerdy if you like, but we love working with databases and helping to make them sing. However, we're aware that not everyone is like that and not everyone has SQL Server installed on his desktop.
You might be a developer using Visual Studio (or even one of the Visual Express editions of your favorite programming language) but without an SQL Server installed on your system. You might still need to access the databases. Thankfully, you can do so with Visual Studio.
In this chapter, you get a mini-introduction to Visual Studio and you find out how to connect to a SQL Server database. You also discover how to browse the database objects, view the data, and debug stored procedures.
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