Where is the "My isolated development environment" setting in VS 11?

Question

I just upgraded our Team Foundation Database Project (.dbproj) that we used with VS 2010 to a .sqlproj with VS 11 Beta.  Each of our developers have their own database that they deploy to for testing their changes.  With the old .dbproj file you could go into the database project properties -> Deploy tab and change the "Configure deployment settings for:" combobox to "My isolated development environment".  This allowed our developers to specify that the database project should deploy to their specific database, without making changes to the .dbproj file (which often would get accidentally checked into source control).

I'm looking through the .sqlproj database project properties in VS 11, but can't seem to find this "My isolated development environment" setting.  I hope that I'm just looking in the wrong place, or has this feature been removed from VS 11 .sqlproj database projects?  Thanks.

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- Dan - "Can't never could do anything"

Answer 1

Hello Deadlydog,

As far as I know that when you are trying to open Database Project (.dbproj ) created in VS2010, you need to first convert it to SSDT project (.sqlproj). For further information about the project artifacts that can or cannot be converted by SSDT, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272689(VS.103).aspx

And I agree with you that, after I convert .dbproj project to .sqlproj project, I can't find the "My isolated development environment" setttings option. I am sorry that I am not SSDT expert, I can't figure out one workaround to deal with your scenario. Please consult SSDT experts on this forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdt/threads 

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Ok, I've created a duplicate post in the SQL Server Data Tools forum for this issue.  Thanks Vicky.

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- Dan - "Can't never could do anything"