Michael Koby

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and version 3.5 of the .Net Framework is ready for release and as such as announced the final (non-beta) versions of the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions (click link for downloads).

The Express Editions of Visual Studio is something that Microsoft did right.  By releasing a fully functional development environment for free and that allows people to release their products commercially is a great way to get people utilizing your products.  I think they partially did this to compete with SharpDevelop, a free open source DotNet IDE.  However, the fact that I can legally download a version of Visual Studio to my home PC to develop with is absolutely awesome, this way I do not need to find a version a P2P site to install and use.

I am now the proud owner of a BlackBerry Curve cellular smartphone. Purchased off eBay last week, this little darling is going to replace my Pearl which I have just fallen in love with but was really just a BlackBerry test run. After going about a month and a half of getting to know BlackBerrys and really coming to like them, I decided that I wanted to get the phone that I had originally planned to get myself. Now I have done that, and the Pearl has already been promised/sold to someone so my out of pocket expense is rather low. I’m happy.

If you are like me and do a lot of SQL programming and database work in Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine, then you know that one of the most annoying things missing from SQL Server Management Studio is code completion for SQL statements.  This is something that is in just about every other query analyzer like product including Aqua Data Studio.

Well, someone from the Microsoft camp has posted a screenshot of intellisense inside SSMS  for SQL Server 2008.  All I can say is, “About freakin’ time, guys” nice to see they are finally catching up.

If you are like me and do a lot of SQL programming and database work in Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine, then you know that one of the most annoying things missing from SQL Server Management Studio is code completion for SQL statements.  This is something that is in just about every other query analyzer like product including Aqua Data Studio.

Well, someone from the Microsoft camp has posted a screenshot of intellisense inside SSMS  for SQL Server 2008.  All I can say is, “About freakin’ time, guys” nice to see they are finally catching up.