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SQL Database Project Power Pack - Visual Studio Marketplace

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 6h

Level up your SQL Database project experience with the "SQL Database Project Power Pack" - with cross platform & NuGet support, live code analysis & formatting with .editorconfg settings
#visualstudio #sqlserver #dotnet

Extension for Visual Studio - An extension pack that contains 'SQL Database Project Power Tools', 'T-SQL Analyzer' and 'SQL Formatter' to improve the SQL Database Project developer experience.

Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22h

Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver

if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks - new post with link up now

Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22h

Just blogged: Reduce SQL Database Project deployment time from minutes to single digit seconds with DacDeploySkip
#dotnet #sqlserver #deployment #devops
erikej.github.io/dacfx/perfor...

Using SQL Database Projects for deployment of schema changes with a .dacpac file to SQL Server and Azure SQL Database is a great, free solution, supported by many tools, like SQL Server Data Tools (SS...

Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 2d

Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
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tl;dr - Enable a new feature in the latest .NET SqlClient driver with a couple of switches to get a 180% increase in speed when reading large binary and text data using async methods.

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 5d

If you suffer under slow blob reads with SqlClient, try out 7.0 preview 2!
#dotnet #sqlserver

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 7d

.NET and .NET Framework October 2025 servicing releases updates

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for October 2025.

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 - .NET Blog

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 8d

Announcing .NET 10 Release Candidate 2

.NET 10 Release Candidate 2 focuses on final quality, reliability, and stabilization across the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.

Announcing the .NET Security Group - .NET Blog

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 8d

Announcing the .NET Security Group

Learn how to join the .NET Security Group for early access to CVE information and help deliver security patches to your .NET distribution simultaneously with Microsoft.

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS) - .NET Blog

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 9d

Do you deploy your SQL Database Projects with a CD pipeline, and notice that .dacpac deployments take sooo much time - even when nothing changes? Working on a solution (down to milliseconds) - but I need your help to verify it. Please reply or contact me via GitHub if you are interested.

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.NET @dot.net · 13d

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#dotNETConf

text reads: .NET Conf 2025
Nov. 11-13
Save the date
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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 14d

Preparing for the .NET 10 GC (DATAS)

Learn how DATAS in .NET 10 adapts heap size, what changes to expect versus previous Server Garbage Collection (GC) behavior, and how to decide whether to tune or disable it.

Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET - .NET Blog

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 15d

Developer and AI Code Reviewer: Reviewing AI-Generated Code in .NET

Learn how to effectively review AI-generated .NET code with practical strategies for maintaining quality, enforcing standards, and boosting team productivity through thoughtful code review practices.

SQL Database Project Power Tools - Visual Studio Marketplace

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 18d

New release of "SQL Project Power Tools" - new features:
- import of database settings
- support for Microsoft.Build.Sql projects
#sqlserver #visualstudio
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Extension for Visual Studio - Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience, including Project and Item templates, Import existing databases, create E/R diagrams and much more.

marketplace.visualstudio.com

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 18d

New release of SQLite Toolbox for Visual Studio with support for Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - if you use SQLite in Visual Studio you need this (like 1.5 million current users!!)
#dotnet #sqlite #visualstudio

SQLite and SQL Server Compact Toolbox - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - SQLite / SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio. This extension adds several features to help your embedded database development efforts: Scripting of…

SQLite & SQL Server Compact Toolbox extension for Visual Studio, SSMS (and stand alone) - ErikEJ/SqlCeToolbox

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 20d

Do you use SQLite Toolbox with Visual Studio 2026? - please help me confirm that it no longer crashes when adding a new SQLite connection. Download and try the latest daily build:
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Release notes

github.com

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22d

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022
#dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio
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Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio

In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer - .NET Blog

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 21d

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview) unifies agent creation, orchestration, tooling, hosting, and observability so any .NET developer can ship production AI agents faster.

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ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22d

Not currently, no. Is possible via EF Core Power Tools CLI though. Feel free to create an issue

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio

ErikEJ @erikej.bsky.social · 22d

Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022
#dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio
buff.ly/bqxUxJZ

In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.