Well, not exactly, but some Googling led me to these posts, which show how to put it together yourself using the Visual Studio Shell.

Which reminds me, Craig Boyd and Bo Durban are still working on VFPStudio. Wish I could get to SWFox for the presentation Craig is giving…

I just tried out Microsoft’s new Live Search Cashback: a search for “TabletPC” brought back 8 hits, all RAM cards. I had to search for “Tablet PC” to find what I wanted.

I heard about this a while back, but it didn’t really sink in. It’s nice to know that Microsoft may finally realize that lock-in is not the way to keep your customers happy…

Microsoft is committed to establishing and maintaining open connections between its high-volume products and non-Microsoft products….

Microsoft commits to supporting relevant standards in its high-volume products and doing so in a way that promotes interoperability….

Once customers use one software product to store their data, they should be able to subsequently access that data in a form that permits its use in other software products. Microsoft commits to designing its high-volume products and providing documentation to enable such data portability….

Microsoft recognizes that no single company can address interoperability challenges on its own and that collaboration with customers, partners and other vendors is of critical importance. This collaboration includes open communication on the interoperability challenges that customers are experiencing and the ways in which those challenges can be addressed. In addition to our engagement under these principles with the Interoperability Executive Customer Council, Microsoft will increase our communications with the customer, information technology, and open source communities.

Craig Bertnson points at the MSDN Code Gallery, which allows people to upload code samples for general consumption. I just put up my GDIPlusX/ReportListener sample to see how it works. Pretty neat.

Aaron Margosis recently raved about Windows PowerShell being the coolest technology Microsoft has shipped in a while. So, I decided to download it and give it a spin. I’ll keep you posted…

I finally got Office 2007 installed, so I figured I’d take a swing at posting from Word. Let’s see how it comes out…

Ooh, my first visit from Dr. Watson! Neat. At least it properly saved my work before exiting…

Ok, it pulled down my list of categories, but it showed it in the order I entered them, rather than alphabetical. Also, it won’t let me choose multiple categories.

That’s long enough for now: let’s see if it posts.

Edited:

yup, that was pretty painless. The tags it generated are XHTML-compliant, which I consider a big plus. Oh! It un-smart-quoted what I typed. I don’t know if that was WP’s decision or MS’s, but it’s good either way.

Does this say that if I give a presentation about Subversion, I can’t host the video at Silverlight?

In developing, distributing or hosting Authorized Applications, and in using the service, you may not:…

• use the service in a way that harms us or our affiliates, resellers, distributors, and/or vendors (collectively, the “Microsoft parties”), or any customer of a Microsoft party;…

In honor of the MVP Summit currently being held in Redmond, Computerworld ran an article about the history of the program, which pretty much started in the Fox community, thanks to Calvin.

eWeek tells us that YAG announced today that VFP 9.0 is the last version of Fox, and the team is being broken up. Future development will continue only through VFPX on Codeplex.

I’m in shock. It’s not like it’s a surprise, but to have it finally be official…

Update: YAG has a couple of posts on the subject on his own blog.

Josh Ledgard, Microsoft blogger, has spun off a personal blog. I’m looking forward to reading this one, too.