Updated SQL Server Data Tools and Data-Tier Application Framework for August 2013

The SSDT team is pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools - August 2013 update is now available for download.

Get it here:

SSDT for Visual Studio 2012: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650015
SSDT for Visual Studio 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650014

What’s New?

Updated Data-Tier Application Framework

SSDT - August 2013 includes a new redist of SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (DACFx), which contains several new bug fixes to customer-reported issues:

· Upgrade with dacpac fails when it tries to drop system partitions

· Public Model has no mapping for ScalarFunction and TableValuedFunction "Type" relationship

· Error building Database project with UDF aggregate

The DACFx standalone install is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39976

Bug fixes to customer-reported issues

This release includes many bug fixes for issues reported by customers using SSDT.  Here are some of the most impactful bugs that this release addresses:

· Static Code Analysis Task doesn't honor the CmdLineInMemoryStorage property

· StackOverflowException and crash when programmatically opening a .SQL file

· "Warning as error" setting in code analysis overrides build settings

· Deployment messages not tracked during Publish operation

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