The Visual Studio.NET Server Explorer

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Visual Studio.NET Server Explorer is a very useful tool for working with databases. While not as powerful as the SQL Server Enterprise Manager, it can give you the basic functionality you need when writing or debugging database applications. It will be very useful when we work with the examples in this chapter.

To access the Server Explorer, use the View Server Explorer menu item. The Server Explorer is a dockable window that can be moved around as required. Figure 9-1 illustrates the Server Explorer.

Figure 9-1. Visual Studio.NET Server Explorer window.

You can find information about all the fields in a table, or look at and edit the data in the tables. You can create or edit stored procedures and design tables. We will use the Server Explorer in the first few examples to show a little bit of how it can be used.

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