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Asked: 2026-05-25T18:00:56+00:00

I have a trigger written in C# that is currently active on a production

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I have a trigger written in C# that is currently active on a production database. In order to test something things out, I want the trigger to be active on a test database as well. How do I make sure the trigger gets deployed to both the production and test databases?

As far as I can tell, the way the trigger gets deployed right now is:

  • In Visual Studio, when I look at the properties of my code solution/project, there’s a place for a database connection string. This string specifies the production database.
  • When I go to Build -> Deploy Solution in Visual Studio, this deploys the trigger to the production database specified in the connection string.

So I guess another way of looking at the question is: is there some way of specifying multiple databases in the connection string?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m assuming you’re using VS2010 database projects. Rather than using Visual Studio to deploy you could use the VSDBCMD utility. You can specify a connection string as a command line argument and then you could run the utility twice with different connection strings.

    Another option would be to set up multiple project configurations in Visual Studio with a different connection string for each.

    The Visual Studio Database Guide written by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers may be a useful resource.

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