
Hopefully, the SQL CE & Visual Studio teams will do a "refresh" of this additional tooling installation for the final version of VS2010 SP1.Ī recent ScottGu twitter post has stated that: I have, however, used this "tooling installation" myself against the "final" version of SQL Server Compact 4.0, and it continued to work. Note that, at the moment, this tooling seems geared for the BETA version of VS2010 SP1, and the CTP of SQL Server Compact 4.0. In that post he points to an additional file that is required on top of VS2010 SP1 that enables the tooling support. Scott Guthrie did a blog post regarding VS2010 SP1 and SQL CE a little while ago (when VS2010 SP1 was still in beta).


It's not as full featured as the experience of using SQL Server Management Studio against a "full" SQL Server or SQL Express database, but nonetheless when enabled it looks like this: Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 does include a graphical designer, although you need to install additional tools in order to enable this.
