Visual Studio Data

( Disclaimer: the following is in process and subject to change. The author, nor Microsoft, makes no guarantees nor warrantys on the content of this post ) One of the features we intended to put into VFP 9 was AppState, a _SCREEN property that would...

Paul Vick has a great blog entry about C# being called the “native” .NET language and using functions in the VisualBasic namespace (some of which are faster than doing it the System namespace). A few key quotes: “The bottom line,...

I'm not one to usually post funny things - but having lived in the NYC area for 20 years before moving out here to beautiful Seattle, this thing just struck my funny bone. Raymond Chen points to a guerilla group of performance artists who do live shows...

This is pretty cool. Soma - the VP who runs Devdiv has just started blogging . Hope he gets a chance to post regularly. Welcome!

I've joined the VB team at Tech-Ed this week. Quite fun! The Team features (full development life cycle) in Whidbey were announced this week and there's a ton of excitement around them. Also quite a bit of talk so far about the new Data Sources features...

It began as a total lark. Back in 1998, I was a frequent contributor to the Universal Thread ( www.universalthread.com ) which is a good web-based support forum (pre-blog tech). One day, I noticed the rhyme of what I was about to post followed the metric...

An old friend of mine (hey Fletcher!) asked me about debugging an ASP.NET application in a university setting where the students are not administrators on their machines (a useful thing for anyone). A typical email thread ensued - and Gregg came up with...

Scoble blogs that he and Maryam were at the Mariners game today. I was there too - with Robert Green from the VB team. Beautiful day for a game... Nice to see we're not the only ones not down at Tech Ed... <g>

Back in 1993, Microsoft started the MVP program to recognize contributors to the developer community who help in using and understanding our products. This was started in FoxPro and our Developer Lead, Calvin Hsia, was one of the first MVPs. Since then...

The VFP test team is busting butt to test all of the new features for VFP 9 and to make sure that this version of VFP is the most stable ever. We were very happy with the overall robustness of VFP 8 - one customer who sells a shrink-wrapped app claims...

Euan Garden , the Product Unit Manager for the SQL Tools was interviewed for a bunch of Channel9 videos. This blog entry has the links...

Following in the footsteps of Yag and Mairead, this is my bio: I joined Microsoft 3 years ago as a tester for Visual FoxPro at the end of the VFP7 product cycle. Since then, I have been fully involved in VFP8 and VFP9 as both a tester and manager....

Pathological testing is where you test for conditions and inputs that you know full well are highly unlikely or improbable. Pathological testing is the bastard stepchild of a drunken one night stand between boundary testing and error testing. A simple...

Dirk just posted his provider for NNTP to a GotDotNet Workspace . Who wouldn't want to issue a SELECT against a newsgroup? <g>

One of the things people like about VS2005 is that you can create projects and not save them until you hit, er, File/Save. Keeps you from getting those WindowsApplication1 thru WindowsApplication5999 directories. Anyway, via Rick Strahl's weblog , here...

Thanks to Greg Robinson for pointing it out, here's an interesting article about writing wrapper classes for stored procedures.

Update: The Extended support will go thru April 2008, not 2007 (correcting it inline as well) It'll take a bit of time till it shows up officially on MSDN, but we're extending the support lifecycle of the SOAP toolkit. The new dates are as follows...

Sometime last Thursday night or early Friday morning, my home network stopped working. I discovered this first by trying to access my home network from my office using remote desktop. I kept getting connection errors. When I got home Friday night, my...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/letters/ Get the latest information about the next version of Visual FoxPro and download samples for Visual FoxPro 8.0.

For those of you (like me) who are really into the promise of the Community Tech Previews that we've started, read this post by Mark Cliggett. He explains what is going on behind the scenes. I'm totally with Mark on this one - I think that the CTP's will...

To provide an introduction to myself, first and foremost my name is Mairéad Áine O’ Donovan, if you’re Irish you’ll have no problem pouncing the first part of my name, if you think of parade and place an M in front then that’s...

We are in the process of updating the VS DATA team blog with biographies of the VS DATA team members. To kick start the process here is an introduction to Yag<Yair Alan Griver>. A picture will soon be on it's way to go along with the introduction...

Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produce the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Alan is focusing...