The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus

By tim, on May 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It is not unexpected, but still sad to see loss-making Borland acquired by Micro Focus for a knock-down price of $75m. Borland’s release says little beyond the financial details. Micro Focus, which is also acquiring Compuware’s ASQ (Automated Software Quality) tools (such as QADirector, DevPartner and Optimal Trace, I presume) says:

Acquiring Borland and

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A Silverlight database application with image upload

By tim, on April 26th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been amusing myself creating a simple online database application using Silverlight. I had this mostly working a while back, but needed to finish off some pieces in order to get it fully functional.

This is created using Silverlight 2.0 and demonstrates the following:

A bound DataGrid (as you can see, work is

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SQLite developer argues for quick bug disclosure and fixes, despite egg on face

By tim, on January 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

SQLite developer D Richard Hipp has posted to his mailing list to announce a third release in the space of a few days, to fix bugs discovered in version 3.6.10:

Some concern has been expressed that we are releasing too frequently. (Three releases in one week is a lot!) The concern is that this

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SQL Server 2008 is done

By tim, on August 7th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2008 is released to manufacturing – ie. the bits are done, even if you can’t buy it yet. MSDN subscribers can download it now.

This is the product that was “launched” back in February; it’s been a long delay but I get the impression that the

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Where is your SQL Server CE Database?

By tim, on June 20th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Maybe not where you think. Now, I admit I am three years late with this bug strange feature of Visual Studio but it wasted some of my time today so it is still worth reporting.

I’ve been writing about creating database applications in Visual Studio. Specifically, I was looking at what happens if you

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Bet on Entity Framework, not LINQ to SQL

By tim, on June 10th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

So says Roger Jennings in his post Is the ADO.NET team abandoning LINQ to SQL? His main points in favour of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) Entity Framework:

It is the focus of more energetic development It already has richer features It supports multiple database engines, not just SQL Server

As Andres Aguiar, software

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WinFS reborn: SQL Server as a file system

By tim, on May 16th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Fascinating interview with Quentin Clark, who led the cancelled WinFS project at Microsoft. Jon Udell is the interviewer.

Clark talks about how technology from WinFS is now emerging as the Entity Framework in ADO.NET (part of .NET 3.5 SP1) and the FileStream column type in SQL Server 2008 – a connection I’d already made

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