Visual Studio Data

Some time back, I mentioned the word "paleovulpic" as pertaining to pre-Visual FoxPro. Well, I was thinking about it today and I realized that the Fox programming eras needed to be more succinctly defined. So here goes: Protovulpic Era Desktop database...

I went to the audition in SF last Thursday. I needed to answer 35 or 50 questions correct; I got 32. At least I'm pretty sure of that as they don't tell you the answers nor do they give you your score. The night after the testing, I decided to write...

(UPDATED) ... Whoops, wrong alias name used in the USE IN command. Repaired now <g> So Richard Stanton, part of the VFP Dev team and the author of all the great VFP Report enhancements in VFP 9, and I were going over a very cool algorithm. I...

So today Richard unveiled his version of a number to Roman numerals utility. It involved a bit more processing than mine and used constants instead of a table. I thought that there was no way his was more efficient but when we ran speed tests, he beat...

I announced in a private email to friends a few weeks ago that I was auditioning for the gameshow Jeopardy!. Somehow, I neglected to proffer the date of the audition but it's the 19th of this month. What really amazed me was the fact that at least two...

The VS Data team receives valuable feedback from customers' experiences with the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 and Beta 2 releases. The issues and suggestions received help us make the VS Data tools, and the entire VS 2005 product, more robust. Going forward...

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Last Saturday, I was a regional judge for the national semi-finals for the Imagine Cup. What's that? It's a competition open to students where they are given a theme and technolgies and they come up with a solution, including (usually) design specs...

This whitepaper provides an introduction to Visual Studio Data Designer Extensibility (DDEX). In addition to providing a conceptual overview, it describes how different architectural components of DDEX work together, and shows how to accomplish common...