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We have published the 3.4 Source Edition today as a ZIP inside the Account Manager download section. Visual Studio 2008 This release uses Visual Studio 2008 to build the engine, both the 2.0 and CF engines are included of course. VistaDB 3.4 Build 74 - Source Edition You will have to scroll down a bit...

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I saw this documents over on Clint Edmonson's blog ( NotSoTrivial ). He has put together a set of sample docs for creating a coding standards within your company. I have to agree with his statement: "It doesn't matter what the standards are, as long as you have them and everyone agrees to adhere...

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There is a good article entitle Revving your Business for the Data Explosion in Issue Number Sixteen of Intel Software Insight. Storing binary data Of particular interest to me was the comments about FILESTREAM and the services approach Microsoft is taking to storing much more binary data within the...

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VDB4 Filesystem Changes VistaDB 4 has been a major undertaking for us over the past year. We have had some long and heated discussions internally about architecture changes and directions. One of the largest sticking points for us internally was the file format. The current VDB3 file format is mostly...

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Customer Sneak Preview We will start publishing information about our EF provider very soon. I want to urge some caution that as you are learning, so are we. The EF provider is Alpha stage right now. Subscribers will be able to download the sneak peak preview soon, but we are requesting it not be put...

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Got an itch? Do you have something you would like to get off your chest? Somethat that bothers you about us and would like a few minutes to vent with me on the line? Drop me an email or open a ticket. Does not have to be anything specific. Want to know we will add more samples around something you found...

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Mount Dora, FL ( PRWEB ) Dec 18, 2008 VistaDB Software announces an early preview of VistaDB 4 Entity Framework, announcing today delivery on its promise to support ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities for .NET developers. VistaDB enables .NET application developers through an XCopy deployable...

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This is my final post about the MSDN DevCon here in Orlando last week. See the previous post for some more reading. I really enjoyed the show and learned a lot. One thing that we are developers are always struggling with is just keeping up to date with all the technologies coming out of Microsoft. You...

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Continuing on my previous post about the MSDN DevCon Orlando, there were several other sessions I attended. C# 4 Optional and named parameters are finally going to arrive in C#. I have to say this is one area where I still try to create optional params all the time in C# and am constantly shocked when...

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I was going to write a single blog about my day at MSDN Dev Con, but it was so awesome I am going to split it up. I have pages of notes. I highly recommend if you have a chance to make it to one of these events to go and listen. Visit a track outside your specialty and just open your mind a bit about...

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