Visual Studio Data

Well, the hints have been going out for a while now, and finally we can talk about this thing we've been working on for so long. At the PDC opening keynote today, we unveiled a number of things including Project LINQ. The Language Integrated Query framework...

I got an email today that an old friend and a long time VFP MVP, Drew Speedie and his son Brent died on Friday while hiking in Yellowstone Pa rk . Drew and I spent many years speaking at the same conferences all around the world – and he was one of the...

Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman have written a paper titled "XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Return of the Monoids)" for the XML2005 conference . I found it very readable and a really good explanation of the XLinq API. Check it out! As an aside...

An interesting part of Project LINQ is the concept of Query Comprehensions. In essence, they allow you to perform a translation from a more declarative syntax to a more object based one. For instance the following internal LINQ syntax in C#: expr ...

Some say that seeing is believing. There are three videos on Channel 9 that discuss LINQ. Anders Hejlsberg and Dan Fernandez discuss LINQ and C# . Paul Vick and Amanda Silver discuss the future of VB . Paul Vick and Erik Meijer discuss dynamic...

I'm getting ready for PDC - and planning to spend a lot of time in the pavilions and lounges to talk to y'all and see what you are doing with VS as well as your thoughts on our upcoming work. Here's my schedule - stop on by and say hello! Tuesday,...

Here are some links to various reactions and interviews on The Linq Project. Visual Basic 9.0: Looking Forward - This is an interview that a number of us had with Dr. Dobbs Journal while here at PDC. Check out the transcript of the discussion with...

Got to LA and getting ready for PDC. Incredibly excited. Had an amazing dinner tonight with Erik Meijer - spent the whole time talking about the future of programming and data. Always fun to talk to him for an extended length of time. Watch for a video...

A public beta of SP1 for Visual FoxPro 9.0 is now available for free download on msdn.com. This is the first time the VFP team has posted a free public beta of a SP (Service Pack) for Visual FoxPro. The download page has a text file download with the...

Spent yesterday with an old friend and former co-worker, Bill House. He is a principal in a company that writes software for debtor self settlement (it manages payment scheduling for those having a hard time getting out of debt). One of the cool things...

This October (13-16) I will be at the Southwest Fox 2005 Conference . I will be speaking about " Integrating Visual FoxPro data sources with Visual Studio " -- about developing an ADO.NET provider for Visual FoxPro and using DDEX to integrate with VS...