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What Are Designers?

April 26, 2017db2 Designer designers IBM visual studio Wizard

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What Are Designers?

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Designers are a very exciting DB2 integration feature in Visual Studio 2005. Quite simply, designers are schema productivity features that balance the simplification offered by wizards (which are still offered in Visual Studio 2005 for DB2 schema development) and the quick task completion time associated with a notebook-style interface that doesn’t have the ‘Click Next’ methodology applied to it. In Visual Studio 2005, the wizards that you may be familiar with from the DB2 integration with Visual Studio .NET 2003 continue to be available from the Server Explorer. Designers can also be launched from the Server Explorer view to create and alter new database objects. These designers provide an aggregated view of an object and all its related objects and typical associated actions. Each designer has one or more views that expose a part of the functionality available to the designer. Designers are available to build the following DB2 objects: tables, views, scripts, data views, and stored p