May 2005 - Posts

Introduction to Visual Studio Data Designer Extensibility (by Milind Lele)
31 May 05 03:30 PM

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 Read More...

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Product Feedback on Visual Studio 2005 (by Brad VanBeek)
31 May 05 06:32 PM

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, Read More...

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Imagine Cup 2005
27 May 05 03:19 AM

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. Yes, Read More...

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Changes Coming Soon (by John Koziol)
24 May 05 02:03 AM

Our blog will soon undergo a bit of an edit to make sure we have fresh content and can give you folks as much information as possible. Stay tuned. Read More...

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So Much for Jeopardy! ... For Now
22 May 05 06:01 AM

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 down Read More...

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The Ages of Fox (by John Koziol)
15 May 05 03:50 AM

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 Read More...

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Cool Code Revisited (by John Koziol)
12 May 05 01:20 AM

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 Read More...

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Cool Code Using VFP 9 (by John Koziol)
11 May 05 12:51 AM

(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 can't Read More...

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Filed under: Visual FoxPro, Miscellaneous

Incredible! (by John Koziol)
10 May 05 03:01 AM

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 Read More...

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