In December 2012 SSDT got updated. Here are some details:
If you are planning to use
Visual Studio 2012 you are better off installing the December 2012 update. The
December 2012 update to SSDT relates to what you have on your computer in terms
of Visual Studio version.
1. If you already have
Professional, Ultimate or Premium Edition of Visual Studio 2012 and agreed to
install SSDT during installation then the machine will have an earlier version
of SSDT. This update will replace the version with the latest.
2. If you do not have Visual Studio
Professional or above SSDT will install the Visual Studio 2012 Integrated
Shell. This Shell perform very much like the BIDS in the past and you will
not be able to do programming as it neither include any Visual Studio
programming languages such as VB or C# nor does it support the various types of
projects that you can create with the non-shell, full versions of Visual Studio
Professional and above. This December update updates the functionality of
Express SKUs of Visual Studio 2012. The following are the improvements over the
previous version:
Database Unit Testing
Integration of SSDT Power
Tools
Updated Data-Tier Application
Framework
Bug fixes
If Visual Studio Professional
or above is present, SSDT will be integrated with the existing VS program.
However SP1 must be manually installed before installing the update.
If VS Professional or above
SSDT is not present SSDT installs only the Visual Studio 2010 Integrated Shell.
SP1 must first be installed before
installing the SSDT (However when the blogger used the web installer the SP1 was already in place). The shell as the name suggests contains only SSDT related
items and does not include programming languages such as VB and C#.
Program installed in July 2012 using web installer
The following are the
improvements over the previous version:
Database Unit Testing
Integration of SSDT Power
Tools
Updated Data-Tier Application Framework
Bug fixes
The platforms that support the
updated SSDT are:
Windows Vista SP2 or above
Windows 7 SP1 or above
Windows 8 RTM
Windows Server 2008 SP2 or
above
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or
above
You can download SQL Server
data tools for Visual Studio 2012 from this link:
Additionally you can get an
ISO image or download SSDTSetup.exe to create an administrative install point
if there is no internet access. For details visit the previous link.
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