Tragic News (by yag)- September 18, 2005 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 Park. Drew and I spent many years speaking at the same conferences all around the world and he was one of the speakers that could invariably find something new and interesting to discuss in his sessions. His son, Brent, came to many of the conferences, and I remember him proofreading conferences reports written at European conferences for the Universal...http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2005/09/18/Drew-and-Brent-Speedie.aspx Project LINQ - Language INtegrated Query (by yag)- September 13, 2005 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 (the LINQ Project) is a set of language extensions to C and VB and a unified programming model that extends the .NET Framework to offer integrated querying for objects, databases and XML. Basically, instead of writing your queries in...http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2005/09/12/Announcing-Linq.aspx |