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Deploying Database Changes with PowerShell

Original post blogged on Fri, May 17 2013 at LessThanDot.com

Recently, while working on a personal project, I found myself needing a lightweight way to deploy database changes to multiple environments. In the past I have used a wide range of methods, ranging from applying the changes manually to applying changes via a diff tool (SQL Compare), to automatically applying manually created change scripts, to automatically applying diff scripts that were automatically generated, to working directly in production..er, pretend you didn't see that one.

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Intellisense for custom XML in Visual Studio

Original post blogged on Mon, May 06 2013 at LessThanDot.com

This is one of those things that I only need once every several months and always forget how to do. Working with custom XML in Visual Studio is a whole lot easier with intellisense. Schema errors are highlighted, enumerated values are displayed, and the amount of typing goes from full tag names to just a few characters followed by tab to complete.

There are a few ways to do this, but if you have a schema (XSD) for the file, then here are the steps to make the magic happen.

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