Hello from Milind Lele...
A few weeks ago I had published a survey (https://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2004/06/03/147838.aspx) for the future of the query designer. Many thanks to all those who responded.
I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. I am a Program Manager with Visual Studio Data, working on data tools for VS 2005 data. I've been with this group for a little over three years now. That was when I started at Microsoft, after about eleven years, first as a developer, later as an architect.
As the developer division starts to wrap up VS 2005 beta, the team are starting to plan for the future of the data tools. One of my areas of focus is the query designer.
So drop me a note here if you have thoughts, ideas... or just to say, "Hello!"
Cheers!
Milind Lele
PM, VS Data