July 2004 - Posts

Data/Language Integration in .NET (by yag)
29 July 04 01:54 PM

As Paul mentions on his blog and Anders discusses on Channel9, we've begun long lead work on some possible post-Whidbey items, including integration of data and language. I have to admit that it's pretty cool to be working with the top language and data Read More...

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Filed under: VS DATA Future Work

This really rocks! (by yag)
28 July 04 04:59 PM

Craig Berntson, a Fox MVP who is also working with .NET blogs about how surprised he was to get a response from the setup team - read why ... Way to go, Kevin! Read More...

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SQL Express Management Tool (by yag)
28 July 04 01:30 AM

Paschal blogs : My wish is for the Microsoft guys is that you make a separate manager for SQL Express 2005. Euan blogs (separately): One of the tools that was shown in the demo(if it went as planned) at TechEd should have been Express Manager ( XM ). Read More...

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Filed under: VS DATA Whidbey, SQL Server Express

Jackie Goldstein is blogging (by yag)
28 July 04 01:25 AM

Microsoft Regional Director, author of Database Access with Visual Basic.NET, and all around nice guy, Jackie Goldstein has finally started a blog . Subscribed. Read More...

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Congrats to the SQL team! (by yag)
28 July 04 01:23 AM

A little late, I know, but SQL Server 2005 hit Beta 2 this week. You can get an overview of its features here . Read More...

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Filed under: SQL Server Express

New, changed and removed classes in VS2005 (by yag)
28 July 04 01:20 AM

Julia notes the .NET Browser which allows you to go thru the framework and notes changes between VS2003 and VS2005. Read More...

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Filed under: VS DATA Whidbey, Miscellaneous

New XML Tools in Visual Studio 2005 (by Ken Levy)
21 July 04 01:20 PM

To make sure subscribers of the VS Data team blog don't miss it, I just made a detailed entry in my blog . I copied here here so those who subscribe to this blog don't miss it. The VS Data team in the Visual Studio group sponsors the XML tools being created Read More...

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The VFP Feedback Mechanism (by John Koziol)
16 July 04 01:56 AM

Recently, MS introduced a new feedback method called “Ladybug” that allows customers to post and track feedback on bugs and issues with a product. VFP is not a product supported at this time and this has generated some feedback. I'd like to Read More...

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Filed under: Visual FoxPro, Miscellaneous

Updateable Query Result Pane in the VS2005 Part I (by Ming Chen)
15 July 04 06:45 AM

I meant to talk about the Updateable Result Pane soon on My First Post . But get distracted by personal live a bit (my son is very sick for a while. My personal feeling on VS2005 Query Designer Update result pane will be common used for For programmer: Read More...

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Filed under: VS DATA Whidbey

Initial Thoughts/Feedback on VS 2005 Beta 1 (by Mairéad)
14 July 04 11:41 PM

It's been over two weeks now since the VS 2005 Beta 1 was released. Yeehaaaaaaa :-) The VS Data team would love to hear about what your inital impressions are, your thoughts and comments. What features rock, what features could be better, have you suggestions/comments Read More...

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Char or Varchar? - You Decide (by John Koziol)
13 July 04 02:26 AM

New to VFP 9 is behavior when a function is used in a SELECT statement that produces a character string. So, for example: SELECT LEFT(name,10) FROM people Prior to VFP 9, this would result in the character field “name“. New to VFP 9 is storing Read More...

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Filed under: Visual FoxPro, Miscellaneous

Slogging Through (by John Koziol)
07 July 04 11:25 PM

I'm back from a very long weekend. Our ober-boss, Rob Copeland, gave us an additional day off so for the VS Data Team it was a 4 day weekend. Which was really cool until I made the inadvertent mistake of letting my wife know I might be able to do drywall Read More...

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Filed under: VS DATA General, Visual FoxPro, Miscellaneous

VS DATA members Biographies (by Mairead)
01 July 04 07:57 AM

We are slowly starting to write up some of the VS DATA team member's biographies on the Microsoft Community biographies page. As you can imagine everyone was pretty much heads down for the past 6 months on Visual Studio Beta 1 and Visual FoxPro 9.0 Beta Read More...

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