Like Josh, I fall more on the "we should show this to customers” side of things - but I think that Josh does a great job discussing all the issues involved in getting more transparent as a corporation. I highly recommend this series of posts. Have a great...

My condolences to all those affected by the earthquake and tidal wave. I was in Chennai and Pondecherry a few weeks ago - beautiful cities and beaches. My heart goes out to all those there. If AnandM is reading this, please let us know you're safe. yag

I know lots of the folks on the team have already mentioned it - or mentioned that we're really close to shipping. I just wanted to publicly add my congratulations to everyone on the all the teams that helped to ship VFP9, and to our customers who spent...

We are done with the puppy. See Ken or Calvin's blog or the product website ( http://msdn.microsoft.com\vfoxpro ) for more information.

One of the many new features of Windows Xp Sp2 is that Windows Firewall is turned on by default. For those of us who connect to Oracle in Whidbey on a regular basis, this has affected us greatly. All of a sudden, the Oracle listener would start spouting...

One interesting thing about VB2005 is that it ships with a lightweight application framework that provides a number of interesting events. One of those is NetworkAvailabilityChanged. Strangely enough, it fires whenever you go from online to offline and...

I just posted several news items related to Visual FoxPro 9.0 and other Visual FoxPro topics on my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy . Members of the team will still be making VFP related blog entries here, and check out Calvin Hsia's blog at http:...

Ken Levy, our groups Product Manager, was interviewed for a Channel 9 video about the upcoming release of Visual FoxPro 9.0. You can see it here .

ADO.NET 2.0 includes binary serialization of datasets for remoting. Via Beth Massi's new blog , here's a pointer to a gotdotnet user sample that she created in VB.NET that provides the same capability today. yag

Walkthrough: Simple deployment of SQLCLR Visual Basic Stored Procedure The Yukon release of SQL Server allows functions, procedures and triggers to be written in any of the .Net languages. User code can access data from the local or other SQL servers...

Just back from India. What an awesome trip. My thanks to everyone who worked to set up the events and meetings and to everyone who attended. I just wish that we had more time to visit the country. Before I get some sleep, here are some links to articles...

The SQL Server Express Team has released their December Community Tech Preview and it's available for you to download for free off MSDN . Lance (VS DATA Program Manager Lead) will provide some more information from on this over the upcoming days. Stay...

One of the responses that I got back from my posting on what you would like to see on the VS DATA Team blog was from Stuart who requested to receive more data/links on basic SQL functionality. One great place to get some information is from the SQL Server...

With every new version of Visual FoxPro our customers get lots of new functions and commands to study and integrate into their development efforts. Or, in some cases, existing commands and functions are enhanced with new functionality. Visual FoxPro 9...

If would like to get extra information about SQL Server Express 2005, check out the Whitepaper that Rajesh George a Program Manager on the SSE team has up on MSDN