Visual Schema Compare for SDK Style SQL Database Projects in Visual Studio and SSMS Keeping your SQL database project in sync with a live database is one of the most common — and most tedious — challenges in database development. If you have ever manually compared CREATE TABLE…

I just added a new feature to SQL Database Project Power Tools: Schema Compare 🎉
You can now easily compare your SQL project with a live database directly from SSMS or Visual Studio.

Super useful for catching differences and generating scripts as part of your DevOps workflow.

Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT - .NET Blog The C# Dev Kit team replaced C++ Node.js addons with C# and Native AOT, removing a dependency on Python. This post walks through building a Node.js native addon entirely in C# using N-API, LibraryImport,...

Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT

Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS with SQL Database Project Power Tools, Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:00 PM | Meetup **Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS With SQL Database Project Power Tools** Microsoft recently announced an exciting new feature in SQL Server Management Studio 22.4.1:

🔧 Ready to modernize your SQL Server workflow?
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📆 Wed, Apr 22
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Release Configurable ER diagram options · rr-wfm/MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj This releases adds more flexibility for configuring the Entity Relationship diagrams generation feature introduced in 4.1. We recommend checking out the documentation for more details on this featu...

We have taken our E-R diagram creation during SQL Project build to the next level with more knobs - and given our docs a major overhaul as well. Read more in the release notes here:
github.com/rr-wfm/MSBui...

.NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates - .NET Blog A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for April 2026.

.NET and .NET Framework April 2026 servicing releases updates

.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! - .NET Blog Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 3 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, container images, and more!

.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available!

New Visual Rule Manager: Configure SQL Code Analysis Without Editing XML Configuring SQL static code analysis rules just got easier. The latest release of SQL Database Project Power Tools includes a visual Rule Manager — a settings dialog that lets you enable, disable,…

New blog post ✍️
I’ve built SQL Projects Rule Manager – a simple way to manage SQL code analysis rules for SQL Database Projects directly in Visual Studio and SSMS.
If you use DacFx or SQL projects, this one’s for you 👇
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Publish SQL Database Projects as Container Images with MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj Database deployments have traditionally been one of the trickier parts of a CI/CD pipeline. You need the right tools installed, the right permissions configured, and the right SQL Server instance reachable—all at deploy time. MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj simplifies this by letting you manage your SQL Server schema as code and build a .dacpac file just like any other .NET project. Starting with version 4.0.0, it goes one step further by letting you package the .dacpac and the deployment tool into a self-contained container image that can be run anywhere containers can run.

Database deployments are still one of the trickiest parts of CI/CD. MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj 4.0 lets you publish SQL database projects as self-contained container images—including the .dacpac and SqlPackage.

Same results. Anywhere containers run.

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Your Migration's Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment - .NET Blog Introducing GitHub Copilot Modernization and diving into the assessment report as part of cloud modernization process

Your Migration’s Source of Truth: The Modernization Assessment

ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement - .NET Blog ASP.NET Core 2.3 will reach end of support on April 7, 2027. Learn what this means for your applications and how to upgrade to a modern supported version of .NET.

ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement

SqlProjectPowerTools/docs/getting-started.md at main · ErikEJ/SqlProjectPowerTools Visual Studio and SSMS Tools to enhance the SQL Database Projects developer experience - ErikEJ/SqlProjectPowerTools

If you can extend Visual Studio, you can also extend SSMS! A good example of this is my new "SQL Database Projects Power Tools" - I have just added a new powerful GUI tool for managing static code analysis rules. Read more here:

github.com/ErikEJ/SqlPr...

"EF Core Power Tools- essential for working with EF Core in Visual Studio" ❤️

Release notes Entity Framework Core Power Tools - reverse engineering, migrations and model visualization in Visual Studio & CLI - ErikEJ/EFCorePowerTools

New releases of EF Core Power Tools, my free toolset for any EF Core developer on Visual Studio or via command line. Now with over 600.000 installations!

New: EF Core 11 initial support, Handlebars for EF Core 10 and many other fixes and improvements.

Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS with SQL Database Project Power Tools, Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:00 PM | Meetup **Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS With SQL Database Project Power Tools** Microsoft recently announced an exciting new feature in SQL Server Management Studio 22.4.1:

Join me on April 22 online:

Supercharge Database DevOps in SSMS with SQL Database Project Power Tools
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Explore union types in C# 15 - .NET Blog C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.

Explore union types in C# 15

You can now generate a Mermaid Entity Relationship diagram during build of your SQL Project (.dacpac) with our build SDK MsBuild.Sdk.SqlProj

github.com/rr-wfm/MSBui...

Azure Trusted Signing Revisited with Dotnet Sign In this follow-up post to my previous guide on Azure Trusted Signing, I explore how the new `dotnet sign` tool significantly simplifies the code signing process compared to the traditional…

Azure Trusted Signing Revisited with Dotnet Sign - from Rick Strahl
#dotnet
weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2026/M...

📢 New post: SQL Database Project Power Tools for SSMS!

Enhance the new Database DevOps preview in SSMS 22.4.1 with:
• Database import
• Schema compare
• Static code analysis
• E/R diagram generation
• And more!

Free & open source 🎁

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#SQLServer #SSMS #DevOps

Batteries included: Database DevOps with SQL projects | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Database changes shouldn’t be the last manual step in your release process. As teams adopt DevOps practices to ship application code faster and more reliably, the database has remained a…

Batteries included: Database DevOps with SQL projects - long blog post explaining database DevOps and the latest updates for the SQL Server team
#sqlserver #devops #dacfx #dotnet
blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/b...

Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10 - .NET Blog Announcement of Version 2 of Generative AI for Beginners .NET, a free course rebuilt for .NET 10 with Microsoft.Extensions.AI, updated RAG patterns, and new agent framework content across five structured...

Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10

Ten Months with Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime - .NET Blog After ten months using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (CCA) in dotnet/runtime, the .NET team shares data-driven lessons on cloud-AI-assisted development.

Ten Months with Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime

Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents - .NET Blog Learn how custom-built AI agents are dramatically improving the .NET MAUI contribution workflow, reducing issue resolution time by 50-70% while increasing test coverage and code quality.

Accelerating .NET MAUI Development with AI Agents

MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More - Azure SQL Dev Corner MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.41 adds SQL Notebooks, GitHub Copilot in Schema Designer, and Data API builder. Three features now generally available.

MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More - including SQL Projects static code analysis!

Database DevOps (preview) in SSMS 22.4.1 | Microsoft Community Hub Database DevOps tooling for Microsoft SQL brings the benefits of database-as-code to your development workflow. At its core are SQL database projects, which...

SQL Database Projects (preview) in SSMS 22.4.1

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Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps - .NET Blog .NET MAUI 11 adds pin clustering to the Map control, automatically grouping nearby pins into cluster markers. Learn how to enable clustering, create separate clustering groups, and handle cluster taps...

Pin Clustering in .NET MAUI Maps

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Is Here: A Leaner, More Modular Driver for SQL Server | Microsoft Community Hub Today we're shipping the general availability release of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0, a major milestone for the .NET data provider for SQL Server. This...

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 7.0 Is Here: A Leaner, More Modular Driver for SQL Server
#dotnet #sqlserver

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RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI - .NET Blog Guest blog post on building a real time assistant using OpenAI Realtime API using .NET, F#, Microsoft.Extensions.AI and .NET MAUI.

RT.Assistant: A Multi-Agent Voice Bot Using .NET and OpenAI

Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot - .NET Blog See how the modernize-dotnet agent helps you assess apps, create upgrade plans, and modernize .NET projects from Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and GitHub.

Modernize .NET Anywhere with GitHub Copilot

Fixing SQL Server 2025 LocalDB in Visual Studio 2026: Enabling REGEXP and VECTOR Support If you're a developer using SQL Server LocalDB with Visual Studio 2026 and you've tried to use the exciting new REGEXP_* functions or the VECTOR data type, you may have encountered a frustrating…

Fixing SQL Server 2025 LocalDB in Visual Studio 2026: Enabling REGEXP and VECTOR Support

If you're a developer using LocalDB with Visual Studio 2026 and you've tried to use the exciting features, you may have encountered a crash. Here's what's happening and how to fix it.

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.NET 10.0.5 Out-of-Band Release - macOS Debugger Fix - .NET Blog An out-of-band release of .NET 10.0.5 to fix a critical debugger crash affecting macOS users with Visual Studio Code.

.NET 10.0.5 Out-of-Band Release – macOS Debugger Fix