Emacs.NET (2010)
At the end of 2007, we started hiring for a project that we referred to internally as “Emacs.Net”.
I often get asked about this project and it is a recurring search leading to this blog, so I thought I would give an update on what happened since we staffed up that team.
The short story is that we gave this project an official unofficial name: “Intellipad”. This tool was included in the first “Oslo” CTP and continues to ship in the latest SQL Server Modeling CTP.
We designed “Intellipad” to work standalone as a lightweight companion to “Quadrant” and VS. In addition, a core scenario was in situ use within “Quadrant” itself.
You can see three “Intellipad” views in “Quadrant” below (from the current CTP). One shows “M”. Another shows the T-SQL generated from the “M”. The last shows “Intellipad” as the query editor in the table view.
The ‘Quadrant” integration is something we debuted at PDC this year, but the fact that we were going there shouldn’t have been a surprise. First, I told anyone that asked and second the name is the best clue. “Intellipad” is short for “Intellisense Workpad”. A workpad is the name that we give for a view inside of “Quadrant”.
BTW: One of the main developers of “Intellipad” and “Quadrant” has an impressive side-project that you may want to check out: SmallBasic.
[Update: If you want to see what you can do with “Intellipad”, check out how we extend it for MUrl.]
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