yag: Community and Architecture

We just posted the following to the VFP site. I'll write more later: A Message to the Community We have been asked about our plans for a new version of VFP. We are announcing today that there will be no VFP 10. VFP9 will continue to be supported...

I've been reading the comments here and on some sites about SP2. I wanted to give my point of view about it and ask for a few things from the community. Milind, Calvin, Aiwen and I have been going thru the reports and trying to reproduce them here...

Since we made the announcement, I’ve been reading comments on this blog and others as well as various community sites like the Universal Thread . The comments have ranged from the good to the, er, not so good <g>, to the challenging. I’ve also personally...

As some of you have noticed, we had a bug in our SP2 release. We forgot to update the file with the splash screen in it. Nice getting back online to messages about it. My thanks to those of you who mentioned it nicely. <g> Anyway, Milind and...

So, let’s talk a little more about my new position and what it means for Visual FoxPro and the community. As you know, I spent the last few years as Group Manager for VS Data – that meant that I had two major products that I worried about: Visual Studio...

We've figured out the Vista border issue (we think). We couldn't reproduce it here, but Jim Slater noted that it happens for him when he changes the bordertype in the init. As Calvin mentioned in these blog entries: Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint...

I said earlier that I wasn't really ready to talk about how I feel about the announcement. I did, however, post something on the Universal Thread last week in response to a question that a few folks have told me I should post here. Interestingly enough...

I wrote a little while ago about what we were trying to accomplish with our efforts. Well, the initial beta is out. This will hopefully give you some insight into what we're working on, and a place for you to give us feedback. The overall information...

I was talking to some of the MVPs today about the VFP announcement that we've made and we started talking about some of the things we've shared over the years. I've been involved with Fox since Foxbase days back in 1986 or so. Many of my best friends...

It may take around a 1/2 hour to propogate to all the servers, but it's now online.

As most of you know, I'm a baseball fan. MLB.COM just enabled Silverlight in their video pages. The start of great things to come! <g>

As stated in the latest monthly letter , we just shipped Service Pack 2 (SP2) for VFP 9! You can download it here . We've also made the bug list available . The source code to the VFP and VB.NET components will be made available next week. My thanks...

Here's a great post about blogging and its usefulness in corporations. The quote I wanted to point out: What did Microsoft do? I don't know if they had it before, but it takes certain organizational cultural values. It's not about process, or rules...

When I left the developer division a number of months ago, people were curious as to why. I explained that this new gig was one that kept me awake at night thinking of all the cool things we could be doing. I wrote a little about this when I first joined...

I’ve been spending some time in meetings and doing some thinking about how we can start to combine some of the great resources that we have here at Microsoft. One idea that came up today has to do with machine translation and blogs. We already do...

This is a copy of a post I left on the VS Data blog. Sorry for the dupe - but I want folks who are new to this blog to have context: ---------- As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they...

Jim Wooley just posted a great entry on his ThinqLinq site. It involves using Linq to XML and VB9's XML Literals to query Shakespeare's plays. He first joins all the plays on his drive together into one big XML file and then gets the top 50 characters...

Ken posted a while back about his “monsters of rock” group of folks at Live. Well, I feel the same about the new team that I’m working with. Every one of them is as crazy about community and customers as I am <g>. Here are a few of the folks I’ll...

We've had two things ship recently: CodePlex and the Microsoft Feeds Directory. CodePlex is a community site for developers to innovate and participate in collaborative development projects. CodePlex is currently in beta. For more details, check out...

Well, the news is finally out . SednaX is moving to CodePlex . I'm really excited to have the community helping to not only move VFP forward (as a number of efforts are doing), but also to help us get our new site tested. My thanks to everyone involved...

Calvin has written a blog crawler with both VFP and VB.NET versions that allows you to back up your own blog posts. The post that started it all with the VFP version The post with the VB.NET version One comment on the utility And one more...

Now that SP2 is out, you can go ahead and download the free ActiveX controls being made available by our friends at DBI. The controls include the following: ctTray Offers developers direct access to the standard Windows System...

Lisa posted a video about the new Report Writer enhancements coming in Sedna (and available in the most recent CTP). You can find it in a few places (Lisa gave permission to rehost it to save on bandwidth): http://www.spacefold.com/lisa/SP2Demo/SednaDemo...

I was interviewed by Level Extreme for two of their online magazines: .NET Magazine and Universal Thread Magazine. In the .NET Magazine interview , we talked about my new position here on the Communities Team, .NET in general, Linq and a number of...

I mentioned this in my last blog entry, but thought I should make it more discoverable. We've released the May Community Tech Preview for Linq . Everything I talked about here at Devteach is available for the download. I just spoke to an attendee named...