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Revisiting Visual Studio 2008's integration with System i Access 6.1

Dave — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:21:00 GMT

I was reading the latest issue of System iNews earlier this week, and I stumbled upon a reference to an article about adding System i Data Sources to Visual Studio 2008. Since I had written about this very subject I was curious to see how my own solution matched up with the solution provided by IBM...

Resolved: 'Our applications don't support 64-bit operating systems'

Dave — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Why is it that some programmers are so quick to abandon their users with a remark like 'we don't support x64'? This is a quick story about making a developer's app work in x64, even though the developer did not seem to have any interest in making it happen...

Visual Studio 2008 and System i Database Access

Dave — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:18:00 GMT

If you are upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and want to use the System i Access for Windows .Net data sources for access to your i, then you have undoubtedly noticed that is does not appear to be an available option...