There is no guarantee that data tools in Visual Studio 2015 and later will continue to work with SQL Server 2005. For more information, see Compatible database systems for Visual Studio.Įxtended support for SQL Server 2005 ended on April 12, 2016. You can browse these offerings in the Visual Studio Marketplace or by navigating to Extensions > Manage Extensions and then selecting Online in the left pane of the dialog box. Other database products integrate with Visual Studio as an extension. You can explore the offerings on or through the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio ( Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Manage NuGet Packages for Solution). Many database vendors and third parties support Visual Studio integration by NuGet packages. For more information, see Compatible database systems for Visual Studio.
You can browse these offerings in the Visual Studio Marketplace or by navigating to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then selecting Online in the left pane of the dialog box.
NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and mobile apps, and tools in Visual Studio for connecting to Azure Storage. NET applications, Visual Studio provides tools that you can use to explore data sources, create object models to store and manipulate data in memory, and bind data to the user interface. In Visual Studio, you can create applications that connect to data in virtually any database product or service, in any format, anywhere-on a local machine, on a local area network, or in a public, private, or hybrid cloud.įor applications in JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, or C++, you connect to data like you do anything else, by obtaining libraries and writing code.