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Yag moves on and stays at the same time (by yag)
04 May 06 10:38 PM
As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they’d like to work on next. After working on two releases of Visual Studio and a similar number of releases of Visual FoxPro, I’ve accepted a position in Read More...
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Anonymous Comments Accepted Again (by John Koziol)
18 April 05 05:20 PM
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...
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Rob Copeland is blogging! (by yag)
11 March 05 06:07 PM
Rob Copeland, Product Unit Manager for RAD Tools (that's VB, .NET Client aka Winforms and VS Data) has joined the blogosphere . In his first post, he discusses the VB6 support policy and where he'd like to go with his blog. Please go and make him feel Read More...
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Exploring VB .Net from a VFP Perspective (Part III) (by John Koziol)
22 February 05 11:17 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating what others have already written about .Net from the VFP perspective. To those authors who have written extensively on the subject, notably Kevin McNeish, Cathi Gero, and Les Pinter, I apologize for any overlap. Hint Read More...
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A Very Cool Use for Visual FoxPro (by John Koziol)
18 February 05 01:30 PM
This is very cool. It's a database of stuff about climbing the Himalayas. http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/hawley02022005.htm Thanks for Steven Black's Wiki for mentioning this. Read More...
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Stability: VFP8 versus VFP9 (by John Koziol)
18 February 05 01:53 AM
I've gotten some emails from old friends and VFP developers where the sender is asking me which version is best to upgrade a legacy application. Some folks are worried that the "newness" of VFP9 may make it a less stable upgrade whereas VFP8 has had a Read More...
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Michel Fournier, VFP MVP, has entered an interesting contest....
16 February 05 04:22 PM
Yeah, let's vote for Mike! From the UniversalThread: -------------------------------------------------------------------- You might know already that Michel Fournier does also some other quite different things besides UT. Last Monday, Michel registered Read More...
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Exploring VB .Net from a VFP Perspective (Part I) (by John Koziol)
10 February 05 03:25 PM
This is the first in a series of posts on VB. Net observations. It's not formal; it's just an online journal of things I found cool and weird coming from a VFP developer with 20 years of database language experience. One of my tasks this past several Read More...
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What does it mean to be a tester? (by Cameron Slade)
28 January 05 04:20 PM
There is quite a bit of ambiguity, both within the software business and outside of it, about what it means to be a software tester. I can’t count how many times I have been at a party and told someone outside of Microsoft what I do only to get a bewildered Read More...
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Channel9 India video (by yag)
21 January 05 12:18 PM
While on our tour of India, Steven Lees and I were interviewed in Bangalore by Channel9. You can see our discussion of the tour, VB 2005, VFP9, the Indian developer community, the weather and snake farms (!) here . Read More...
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Duncan Mackenzie on FoxPro and an anniversary (by yag)
14 January 05 12:36 PM
Duncan has a blog entry reminiscing about FoxPro . I had no idea that he was an old Fox guy also. It constantly amazes me how many of the folks in Microsoft and the VB team have worked with VFP. I spend a lot of my time working with Rob Copeland - the Read More...
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Help Builder - pretty cool (by yag)
20 August 04 06:09 PM
West Wind HTML Help Builder is a pretty useful tool. I used to use the Visual FoxPro version of this product. It really makes writing developer help a lot easier. Now Rick's got it working with C# and VB code as well. Pretty awesome. Check out his blog Read More...
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VFP and XP SP2 (by John Koziol)
18 August 04 12:10 AM
Some of y'all may recall I posted here months ago regarding the upcoming Windows XP SP2 and VFP. After extensive testing, we found only one small issue and that only pertained to 64-bit machines and an NX switch (dig around here - you'll see the post). Read More...
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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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SSE and Visual Studio ** Xcopy Mindshift **
29 June 04 05:17 PM
Adding databases with SSE (SQL Server Express) to Visual Studio At the announcment for Visual Studio and SSE, they talked about the Xcopy functionality. I should explain a bit about what this means in practical terms for Visual Studio. Most everyone is Read More...
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