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Sorry it's been a while since I posted. The launch in Israel (and the user group meeting) went great. Lots of folks, lots of good conversations with people there. I just wanted to point out a few interesting things that went online in the last day or Read More...
Now that we've shipped Visual Studio 2005, we've put updated versions of the LINQ downloads that work with the RTM bits. Enjoy! LINQ tech preview update for .net 2.0 rtm VB LINQ tech preview update for .net 2.0 rtm C# Read More...
An interesting part of Project LINQ is the concept of Query Comprehensions. In essence, they allow you to perform a translation from a more declarative syntax to a more object based one. For instance the following internal LINQ syntax in C#: expr = names.Where(s Read More...
Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman have written a paper titled "XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Return of the Monoids)" for the XML2005 conference . I found it very readable and a really good explanation of the XLinq API. Check it out! As an aside - Read More...
Well, the hints have been going out for a while now, and finally we can talk about this thing we've been working on for so long. At the PDC opening keynote today, we unveiled a number of things including Project LINQ. The Language Integrated Query framework Read More...
I've mentioned before that one of the reasons I enjoy my job so much is that I get to work with folks like Anders, Paul , Erik and Calvin on future technology. Basically, my goal is to make working with data in real applications (not just demos) something Read More...
As a relatively new member to the VS Data team, I was unaware of the complete history behind our toolset until recently when my Dev Lead Casey Quayle, one of the founding members of our database tool suite, gave me a history lesson on the formation of Read More...
We're rerunning our database modeling survey in Kano format. If you're interested in the future of data modeling in VS and the SQL Server tools, then we'd appreciate your help in defining what we build. Please fill out the survey posted at: http://whdc.microsoft.com/vsdata/databasediagramming.aspx Read More...
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...
The VS Data team is working with other teams across the company for defining the future of the Query Designer. Do you write data access code? Do you write/build queries, reports, stored procedures, views, etc? Help us improve the user experience by taking Read More...
The VS Data team is working with other teams across the company for defining the future of the Query Designer. Do you write data access code? Do you write/build queries, reports, stored procedures, views, etc? Help us improve the user experience by taking Read More...
Michael Raheem (from the SQL Server Group) and I just posted a survey in regards to data modeling to public newsgroups. If you're interested in the future of data modeling in VS and the SQL Server tools, please read on... Are you using a Data Modeling Read More...
... and, I come crashing into the present with my first Blog. I'm Lance Delano a program manager for VS Data. We're actively engaged in looking at future work these days for the Server Explorer, Database Designer (and associated table designer) and query Read More...
 
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