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December 2004 - Posts

Excellent series on Corporate Transparency (by yag)

Like Josh, I fall more on the "we should show this to customers” side of things - but I think that Josh does a great job discussing all the issues involved in getting more transparent as a corporation. I highly recommend this series of posts. Have a great Read More...
Posted Friday, December 31, 2004 3:49 PM by vsdata | 2 Comments

My condolences (by yag)

My condolences to all those affected by the earthquake and tidal wave. I was in Chennai and Pondecherry a few weeks ago - beautiful cities and beaches. My heart goes out to all those there. If AnandM is reading this, please let us know you're safe. ya Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 26, 2004 5:22 PM by vsdata | 2 Comments

VFP9 Ships! (by yag)

I know lots of the folks on the team have already mentioned it - or mentioned that we're really close to shipping. I just wanted to publicly add my congratulations to everyone on the all the teams that helped to ship VFP9, and to our customers who spent Read More...
Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 3:19 PM by vsdata | 6 Comments

VFP 9 SHIPS!!!!! (by John Koziol)

We are done with the puppy. See Ken or Calvin's blog or the product website ( http://msdn.microsoft.com\vfoxpro ) for more information. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 12:59 PM by vsdata | 3 Comments

Problems connecting to Oracle on Windows Xp Sp2? (By Mike Droney)

One of the many new features of Windows Xp Sp2 is that Windows Firewall is turned on by default. For those of us who connect to Oracle in Whidbey on a regular basis, this has affected us greatly. All of a sudden, the Oracle listener would start spouting Read More...
Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 12:04 PM by vsdata | 2 Comments
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Application events in VB2005 (by yag)

One interesting thing about VB2005 is that it ships with a lightweight application framework that provides a number of interesting events. One of those is NetworkAvailabilityChanged. Strangely enough, it fires whenever you go from online to offline and Read More...
Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 7:34 AM by vsdata | 2 Comments

Visual FoxPro 9.0 news (by Ken Levy)

I just posted several news items related to Visual FoxPro 9.0 and other Visual FoxPro topics on my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/klevy . Members of the team will still be making VFP related blog entries here, and check out Calvin Hsia's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:41 PM by vsdata | 0 Comments
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Channel9 video on Visual FoxPro 9 (by yag)

Ken Levy, our groups Product Manager, was interviewed for a Channel 9 video about the upcoming release of Visual FoxPro 9.0. You can see it here . Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:17 PM by vsdata | 3 Comments

Binary serialization of datasets (by yag)

ADO.NET 2.0 includes binary serialization of datasets for remoting. Via Beth Massi's new blog , here's a pointer to a gotdotnet user sample that she created in VB.NET that provides the same capability today. yag Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:59 AM by vsdata | 0 Comments

A Simple Walkthrough for deploying a SQLCLR Stored Procedure (by Brad)

Walkthrough: Simple deployment of SQLCLR Visual Basic Stored Procedure The Yukon release of SQL Server allows functions, procedures and triggers to be written in any of the .Net languages. User code can access data from the local or other SQL servers Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:20 AM by vsdata | 9 Comments
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Back from India! (by yag)

Just back from India. What an awesome trip. My thanks to everyone who worked to set up the events and meetings and to everyone who attended. I just wish that we had more time to visit the country. Before I get some sleep, here are some links to articles Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 12, 2004 6:47 PM by vsdata | 1 Comments

SQL Server Express 2005 December Community Tech Preview (by Mairead)

The SQL Server Express Team has released their December Community Tech Preview and it's available for you to download for free off MSDN . Lance (VS DATA Program Manager Lead) will provide some more information from on this over the upcoming days. Stay Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:32 PM by vsdata | 2 Comments

Providing more information on Basic SQL Functionality (by Mairead)

One of the responses that I got back from my posting on what you would like to see on the VS DATA Team blog was from Stuart who requested to receive more data/links on basic SQL functionality. One great place to get some information is from the SQL Server Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:24 PM by vsdata | 0 Comments

The Limits of Architecture vs. The Architecture of Limits (by John Koziol)

With every new version of Visual FoxPro our customers get lots of new functions and commands to study and integrate into their development efforts. Or, in some cases, existing commands and functions are enhanced with new functionality. Visual FoxPro 9 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:58 PM by vsdata | 1 Comments

Learning more about SQL Server Express 2005 (by Mairead)

If would like to get extra information about SQL Server Express 2005, check out the Whitepaper that Rajesh George a Program Manager on the SSE team has up on MSDN Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:29 AM by vsdata | 1 Comments
 
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