Import a deployed data factory or any entity (Pipeline, Linked Service, Datasets) into your project.

Integration with Server explorer for browsing and interaction with already deployed entities: Leverage the Server Explorer to browse already deployed data factories and corresponding entities.These are all in Visual Studio 2015, and some have been there for a few versions now so you’ll find them in previous. I joined the Visual Studio team about a year ago, and here are some of the great things I’ve discovered. Integration with Diagram view for visual interaction while authoring: Visually author pipelines and datasets with aid from the Diagram view. Visual Studio is a powerful IDE with hundreds of productivity features to empower developers to do more, faster.Integration with Solution Explorer for authoring and deploying Data Factory entities: Create & deploy pipelines and related entities as Visual Studio projects.Template based authoring: Select use-cased based templates, data movement templates or data processing templates to deploy an end-to-end data integration solution and get started hands-on quickly with Data Factory.The Azure Data Factory plugin in Visual Studio improves productivity and efficiency for both new and advanced users with tailored experiences and rich tooling. Our goal is to simplify the Azure Data Factory authoring experience and remove on-boarding and deployment challenges. With this release, customers can interactively author and deploy data pipelines using the rich Visual Studio interface. We are glad to announce the Visual Studio plugin for Azure Data Factory.

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