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Paul Flessner announced the new addition to the SQL Server family. This will provide a lightweight storage on all clients and will include support for seamlessly synchronizing with other SQL Server editions. Milind Lele Read More...
Jim Gray was interviewed for Behind The Code back in early March. Jim's a Technical Fellow here at Microsoft and manages our Bay Area Research Center. For data folks like me, he is one of the people that came up with the theories that underly transaction Read More...
Had to borrow the title from Andrew . Ken Levy, our VFP Product Manager is moving on to a Product Planning position in Windows Live . It's been awesome working with him these past few years. For those who don't know, Ken used to work with me at my own Read More...
Juval Lowy (who I'll be seeing tomorrow at the launch - did I mention we're launching Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006) tomorrow? <g>) has a four part, 107 page paper on generics in C#, VB and MC++ that has been published Read More...
For all you developers who love the command line, or want an easy way to perform simple administration functions on SQL Server 2005, you can now download the SQL Server Express Utility . Among its capabilities, you can: Connect to the main instance or Read More...
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 Read More...
It's been way too long since I've blogged. I was off on a family trip in Europe for 3 weeks, and wrapped that with customer meetings the week before and after. It's taken a while to get back into the swing of things - but here I am. I thought I'd start Read More...
(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...
The C# team has a number of great blogs , and I've been after the VB team to be blogging more. So, I think I should point out a few of the new blogs starting up. Paul Yuknewicz , VB PM, has a blog where he's discussing the release of VB 2005 Beta 2 , Read More...
For a while there, the bog wasn't accepting anonymous comments, that is, you had to register as a user at blogs.msdn.com. This has been changed and you can comment with or without an account. Read More...
One of the cool things about Visual FoxPro is its community. I just wanted to congratulate two community sites for hitting great milestones: PortalFox just hit its 20,000th user The Universal Thread hit its one millionth message It's great to see our Read More...
Those of you reading this blog for a while know that I'm very committed to improving our feedback loop here at Microsoft. In that spirit, I just wanted to give a congrats to the team that has just launched our new MSDN forums . Currently in use for VS2005, Read More...
One of the things I showed when I was in India was various ways of ink-enabling your applications using VB.NET 2003. Now there's a new site, www.vbink.com , that focuses on just that. Pretty cool. (via Julia ) Read More...
One of the teams we work really closely with is Dataworks - they're the ones behind ADO.NET. They just started a team blog . First post is by their PUM, Alyssa. Welcome! Read More...
One of my favorite features coming in VS2005 is debugger visualizers . They allow you to easily add a type-specific form based visualization while debugging. Beth points to the XML Visualizer on GotDotNet. It lets you look at your dataset in a number Read More...
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