A lot of users feel confused about the installation requirements of VSTS for DB Professionals (DB Pro). The readme file says:

“Team Suite or other product must be installed before Db Pro”.

The requirements of VSTS for Database Professionals are:

• Visual Studio Professional Edition, Visual Studio Team Suite, or one of the role-based SKU’s of Visual Studio Team System. The trial version of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals requires Visual Studio Team Suite.
• The Visual Basic or C# language feature must be installed.
• MSXML must be installed.
• Visual Studio Professional Edition is included on the DVD for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.

also posted at: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/maordavid/default.aspx

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