The SQL Server Modeling CTP – Nov 2009 Release 2 has the model schema for following domains: · .NET assemblies · Unified Modeling Language 2 (UML2) · Next generation identity As we finalize the plan for our V1, we are trying to figure out...

There are about ~20 Technical Fellows (all men) and ~48 Distinguished Engineers (all men) at Microsoft. There are a handful of women who are in the executive ranks, including two Senior Vice Presidents. Mary Jo Foley (author of " All About Microsoft ...

The videos from MIX 2010 conference are available online. http://live.visitmix.com/videos There are so many good sessions that I want to watch. I am especially interested in the following to begin with, purely because of personal interest. (Unfortunately...

One of the favorite part of my job as a Program Manager in product engineering groups at Microsoft is seeking customer feedback for products we build. It is really energizing for me to let people take our under-development products for a test run and...

In my previous post “ Assembly, Type and Method References ”, I talked about how AssemblyReferences , TypeReferences and MethodReferences entities can be used to find references across assemblies, types and methods. Context Binding Context is a...

Continuing on my series of “ Exploring relational schema for .NET assemblies in SQL Server Modeling Services ”, in this post I will drill-into entities related to ‘methods’. Type definitions are made up of methods. A method is a subroutine defined...

I have developed a sample Eclipse plug-in that uses one of the utilities in SQL Server Modeling Services (SSMoS). Yes, it is just an experiment and NOT a shipping sample or code as part of SSMoS (not yet anyways – Microsoft has an ongoing initiative to...

SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP R2 is a re-release of the CTP for it to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 RC releases. Download it here .

Types are cornerstone of application programming. A .NET developer works with the CLR type system by programming the managed types. Some of the examples of CLR managed types are: Class, Structure, Enumeration, Delegate and Interface. A namespace is a...

As a continuation of my previous post on exploring relational schema for .NET Assemblies , let me drill-into a few more entities in the System.Runtime data model. .NET applications are made up of multiple assemblies. Assemblies reference assemblies...

As I mentioned in my About SQL Server Modeling Services post, the goal of SQL Server Modeling Services (SSMoS) is to provide a shared application lifecycle metadata platform over which people, tools and runtimes can rendezvous in an application lifecycle...