Visual Studio Data

As Paul mentions on his blog and Anders discusses on Channel9, we've begun long lead work on some possible post-Whidbey items, including integration of data and language. I have to admit that it's pretty cool to be working with the top language and data...

Craig Berntson, a Fox MVP who is also working with .NET blogs about how surprised he was to get a response from the setup team - read why ... Way to go, Kevin!

Paschal blogs : My wish is for the Microsoft guys is that you make a separate manager for SQL Express 2005. Euan blogs (separately): One of the tools that was shown in the demo(if it went as planned) at TechEd should have been Express Manager ( XM...

Microsoft Regional Director, author of Database Access with Visual Basic.NET, and all around nice guy, Jackie Goldstein has finally started a blog . Subscribed.

A little late, I know, but SQL Server 2005 hit Beta 2 this week. You can get an overview of its features here .

Julia notes the .NET Browser which allows you to go thru the framework and notes changes between VS2003 and VS2005.

To make sure subscribers of the VS Data team blog don't miss it, I just made a detailed entry in my blog . I copied here here so those who subscribe to this blog don't miss it. The VS Data team in the Visual Studio group sponsors the XML tools being created...

Recently, MS introduced a new feedback method called “Ladybug” that allows customers to post and track feedback on bugs and issues with a product. VFP is not a product supported at this time and this has generated some feedback. I'd like to...

I meant to talk about the Updateable Result Pane soon on My First Post . But get distracted by personal live a bit (my son is very sick for a while. My personal feeling on VS2005 Query Designer Update result pane will be common used for For programmer...

It's been over two weeks now since the VS 2005 Beta 1 was released. Yeehaaaaaaa :-) The VS Data team would love to hear about what your inital impressions are, your thoughts and comments. What features rock, what features could be better, have you...

New to VFP 9 is behavior when a function is used in a SELECT statement that produces a character string. So, for example: SELECT LEFT(name,10) FROM people Prior to VFP 9, this would result in the character field “name“. New to VFP 9...

I'm back from a very long weekend. Our ober-boss, Rob Copeland, gave us an additional day off so for the VS Data Team it was a 4 day weekend. Which was really cool until I made the inadvertent mistake of letting my wife know I might be able to do drywall...

We are slowly starting to write up some of the VS DATA team member's biographies on the Microsoft Community biographies page. As you can imagine everyone was pretty much heads down for the past 6 months on Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual FoxPro 9.0 Beta...