Visual Studio Data

As a relatively new member to the VS Data team, I was unaware of the complete history behind our toolset until recently when my Dev Lead Casey Quayle, one of the founding members of our database tool suite, gave me a history lesson on the formation of...

I'm a few days late posting this, but I wanted to point y'all to Tom's article on the new set of SKUs for SQL Server - including the new Workgroup Edition which is even available now for SQL Server 2000. Here's a picture of the SQL Server 2005 packaging...

Although it was written as a response to an article by Richard Grimes , I like this blog entry because of how it describes the movement and *feeling* of going from VB6 to VB.NET. Scott captures it really well - probably because he's working in both at...

Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating what others have already written about .Net from the VFP perspective. To those authors who have written extensively on the subject, notably Kevin McNeish, Cathi Gero, and Les Pinter, I apologize for any overlap. Hint...

This is very cool. It's a database of stuff about climbing the Himalayas. http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/hawley02022005.htm Thanks for Steven Black's Wiki for mentioning this.

I've gotten some emails from old friends and VFP developers where the sender is asking me which version is best to upgrade a legacy application. Some folks are worried that the "newness" of VFP9 may make it a less stable upgrade whereas VFP8 has had a...

Jay Roxe posts that he's looking for a library of applications that can be used to test compatibility between VS2003 and VS2005. We don't need the source, just the binaries. If you're interested, check out his post here . Here's hoping that Jay's inbox...

Yeah, let's vote for Mike! From the UniversalThread: -------------------------------------------------------------------- You might know already that Michel Fournier does also some other quite different things besides UT. Last Monday, Michel registered...

Sheesh. Some of the feedback I'm getting on this series makes me feel like a traitor to the Visual FoxPro community. Nothing could be further from the truth; I love the VFP community and I am a staunch supporter of VFP and have been for many years. I...

John Koziol - one of the testers on my team - posted an entry in which he began to discuss some of the things he's learning as he dives in VB.NET. We've gotten a number of responses - which are of two forms: You're just trying to force VB on us Fox folks...

This is the first in a series of posts on VB. Net observations. It's not formal; it's just an online journal of things I found cool and weird coming from a VFP developer with 20 years of database language experience. One of my tasks this past several...

I'm in San Francisco now - ready for a week of VSLive and customer meetings. Should be an interesting week - it's been a really long time since I've come to a conference without a session or keynote to deliver. I'll be hanging out at some of the booths...

Last week, our Test Manager, Cameron, posted an entry about what it means to be a tester. Today, Santosh from the C# team posted an awesome entry about what it *feels* like to be a tester. Thanks, Santosh - it was a great ride...