Can VS support Ruby on Rails -like database migrations?

[GarethHowell]

(first posted in The Lounge but referred onwards) Hi all Whilst I have done quite a bit of ASP.Net programming in the past, most of my recent development work has been with Ruby on Rails. I'm now starting up a new project that requires ASP.Net and I'm trying to see how to do a couple of the really great features in RoR. The main one is database migrations. In RoR, you have a logical schema for the database tables stored as a series of migrations: each of which contains the changes to up or down the rev level of the database tables. As you develop the models, you add migrations. This makes rapid development involving databases really easy. Does anything similar exists for VS and ASP.Net? I've been through much of the ASP.Net MVC pages but all the references I've seen are too micky mouse to see anything useful (i.e. they all deal with local MDF databases rather than a remote SQL Server database). Regards Gareth

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[i j russell]

There are a couple of open source projects on http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?projectSearchText=migration[^] that may be worth looking at but there is nothing from Microsoft.