There is quite a bit of ambiguity, both within the software business and outside of it, about what it means to be a software tester. I can’t count how many times I have been at a party and told someone outside of Microsoft what I do only to get a bewildered...

Milind Lele from our team did an interview with Robert Scoble about SQLCLR and Visual Studio integration. He discusses what's so great about it, and shows some demos. Twenty one minutes of video goodness ... <g>

Well, it's been a ride in getting SSE ready for our upcoming beta. Getting a server product to work in local data scenarios has been hard. There are a lot of issues. But, we're getting there. But Wow. It is totally cool. All of the same APIs I use for...

While on our tour of India, Steven Lees and I were interviewed in Bangalore by Channel9. You can see our discussion of the tour, VB 2005, VFP9, the Indian developer community, the weather and snake farms (!) here .

A few days ago, I pointed to a blog entry by Jackie Goldstein in which he discussed his favorite data enabling features in VS2005 and promised that I'd be watching it for comments. Well, Alex Kazovic asked a question : Do you know if the next Beta of...

While on the tour in India, Steven and I discussed an internal application that was deployed to over 1000 people via Click Once. Click Once is a new feature that is coming in VS2005 which allows you to deploy Windows Forms applications with the ease of...

Jackie has a post discussing the move from Access to .NET. As part of it, he focuses on what he thinks are the key features for data-centric developers. Numbers one and two are: (1) The improved experience and productivity of designing/building data-centric...

Duncan has a blog entry reminiscing about FoxPro . I had no idea that he was an old Fox guy also. It constantly amazes me how many of the folks in Microsoft and the VB team have worked with VFP. I spend a lot of my time working with Rob Copeland - the...

One of the things that my team (VS Data) does is serve as a focal point around data thinking in the developer division. In addition to owning several features (database designer, query designer, parts of server explorer) and a product (Visual FoxPro)...

Happy New Year to everyone from the VS DATA team. Roll on 2005 :-)