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

<span style="font-size: small;">The SSDT team is pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools - August 2013 update is now available for download.</span><br /> <h2> <strong>Get it here</strong>:</h2> SSDT for Visual Studio 2012: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650015">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650015</a><br /> SSDT for Visual Studio 2010: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650014">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650014</a><br /> <h2> What’s New?</h2> <h3> Updated Data-Tier Application Framework</h3> 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:<br /> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/786711/upgrade-with-dacpac-fails-when-it-tries-to-drop-system-partitions">Upgrade with dacpac fails when it tries to drop system partitions</a></div> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/ad29ddb9-d85a-4e53-8027-d5ef4cf54b09/dac-get-scalar-function-type">Public Model has no mapping for ScalarFunction and TableValuedFunction "Type" relationship</a></div> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/790837/error-building-database-project-with-udf-aggregate">Error building Database project with UDF aggregate</a></div> The DACFx standalone install is available here: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39976">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39976</a><br /> <h3> Bug fixes to customer-reported issues</h3> 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:<br /> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/6f53b5ed-d960-4af2-9997-4e414722feaa/ssdt-june-2013-esentversionstoreoutofmemoryexception">Static Code Analysis Task doesn't honor the CmdLineInMemoryStorage property</a></div> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/790303/stackoverflowexception-in-visual-studio-2012-internal-code">StackOverflowException and crash when programmatically opening a .SQL file</a></div> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/793655/transact-sql-and-code-analysis-warning-as-error-are-not-managed-separately">"Warning as error" setting in code analysis overrides build settings</a></div> <div style="padding-left: 30px;"> · <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/fe8fd6f8-bdeb-4ba6-b1a1-5e262f9e3626/how-do-you-get-publishmessage-to-display-in-output-window-in-a-deploymentplanmodifier-type-class-in">Deployment messages not tracked during Publish operation</a></div> <h2> Contact Us</h2> If you have any questions or feedback, please visit our <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdt/threads">forum</a> or <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback">Microsoft Connect page</a>.  We look forward to hearing from you.

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