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Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
Oh man... I guess this isn't new, but I'm impressed...
I installed MCE onto my main home computer recently, which happens to have a modem that supports...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/25/2004
New Community Page for your viewing pleasure...
For various reasons, I'm just buried under work these days... but I still managed to revamp the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/25/2004
A sneak preview of Visual Basic 2005 (article) is up on MSDN...
This new article from Ken Getz provides an overview of many of the new features in Visual Basic...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/22/2004
Just saw a concert... already have the live CD...
It is like bootleg concert recordings but the quality is better and I had to pay for it :)Tonight my...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/21/2004
Today's Team Chat (Thursday 6/24 at 1pm Pacific Time) has been cancelled
Update: This chat has been cancelled, sorry folks!! Click here for details on the chat and check out...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/19/2004
Andy Pennell and Scott Nonnenberg are looking for your opinion...
Debugger Window Menu Items: Where should they be?The VS debugger since 7.0 has put most debugger...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/17/2004
Replaced the Poll Component with my 'new and improved' one...
Well, maybe not improved, but certainly more complicated... I setup my new data model, built a new...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/17/2004
Ended the "Most anticipated release" poll...
And (hopefully the formatting will work out ok in the blog) here are the results :) What release are...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/16/2004
Mark Davis discusses a C# feature....
and it isn't about Whidbey, oh my... :)Visual C# 2003 "Implement Interface" featureJust discovered a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/16/2004
Visual Basic Power Pack Article Up on MSDN
If you follow other people's blogs, then you've probably heard about the Power Pack by now, but I'm...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/16/2004
My MSDN Magazine article is up online...
It is my first "Advanced Basics" column, describing how to create a databound radio button list... I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/16/2004
C# TechEd Page started...
I've put a few of the sessions up here... more to follow!
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/16/2004
Ach... my reading list is growing too fast...
Just today, I've added the new "Smart Client Offline Application Block" (from PAG), FotoVision,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/15/2004
TechEd Slides working their way online...
I'm slowly getting the TechEd slides up and onto MSDN... the first few for VB are up here, SQL's are...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/15/2004
I just like to make things complicated...
When I started out to build a voting control, I drew up a set of requirements that led to a 5+ table...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/15/2004
'Using' statement added to VB in Whidbey release...
Scott Watermasysk blogs about the new 'Using' statement in VB.NET 2005... Using in VB.NETI have not...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/12/2004
If you write RFPs to get work...
Then, first let me say you have my pity, and then let me direct you to this nice piece by my old...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/12/2004
More playing with ASP.NET
As with my earlier messing around with a poll, I took a concept from the www.asp.net site today and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/12/2004
Updated the 'blogs' page on msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic
I haven't taken into account the comments to Paul Vick's request for VB bloggers, but the page has...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/11/2004
Very Very Cool... 3D Pie Chart in C#
In yet another great article from CodeProject, Julijan Sribar describes the details of drawing out a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/11/2004
A love little samples like this...
From Justin RogersA conversion from integer to long form english... I could write that ;-)...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/10/2004
Celebrities in the locker room... career opportunity or creepy awkwardness?
As other people have probably mentioned here and there, there is a very nice health club near...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/09/2004
I added the "no vote, just show me the results" feature to that polling component...
It appears to work fine... assuming you haven't voted from the machine you are currently on, you...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/08/2004
Draft posts... what should they display for 'date posted'?
I've been using unpublished posts as a way to create planned blog posts for later... then, when I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/07/2004
I'm playing around a bit...
I've added some functionality to my personal site because I now have SQL Server available on the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/07/2004
Outlook programming article now available...
It has been up for a few days now, but in case you haven't found it yet... Andrew Troelsen has...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/07/2004
Greggm describes how to debug ASP.NET as a non-admin...
For most folks working with ASP.NET, this should be taken as essential information... Don't let the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/05/2004
Whidbey docs up on MSDN's lab servers...
Check out this link to go right to the VB section... lots of great info in there... or check out the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/05/2004
Paul Vick discusses Nullable Types in the Whidbey release of Visual Basic
You may have been hearing a bit about nullable types in Whidbey (a feature in both VB and C#) but...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/05/2004
Early & Adopter fill you in on "Application Level Events"
The 3 Leaf guys, (well probably just one of them... but who knows which one), talk about...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/05/2004
Paul is looking for a list of the 'best' VB Bloggers...
Who are the best VB bloggers? A while ago Eric asked “Who are the best C# bloggers external to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 06/03/2004
Paul Vick discusses the question that just won't go away... VB or C#?
I get this question a lot, and I explain many of the same things that Paul goes through in this...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/31/2004
Visual Basic at the Movies now available for download...
Interested in VB at the Movies, but wanted to pull the video files local? Now you can... Click here...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/28/2004
Cyrus ruminates on the revelations of TechEd 2004...
Cyrus, recent addition to the C# bloggers list and poster of many posts, has been blogging...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/27/2004
The 'Chalk Talk' went well....
You can expect to see a MSDN TV version of this session at some point soon... should be pretty good...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/27/2004
Anders Chalk Talk today at 2pm to 3:15pm (at TechEd 2004)
Swing by Cabana 5 today (May 26) at 2pm if you want to chat with Anders.... Erica Weichers is here...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/26/2004
Contents of a programmer's backpack
Returning to the room tonight I was greeted by an amazing spread of technology across the bed in my...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/26/2004
Paul Vick is in the house....
Paul Vick, language guy for Visual Basic and unofficial spokesman for Krispy Kreme (look at the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/25/2004
New IIS site...
I wouldn't have known about this site, if the site's owner wasn't sitting behind me on the plane to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/23/2004
At TechEd and waiting for your questions!
Headed over to registration today, very very busy... then to the Cabana with Erik Porter... very...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/23/2004
TechEd and Rio... IV?
Like Eric, Brad, and Paul I will be at TechEd and am participating in the Rio tool for meetings....
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/20/2004
The mind boggles...
And it doesn't even have to be implanted into the hand - clubbers can have the chip injected into...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/20/2004
Coming to TechEd? Play Halo for the PC? Have a fast laptop?
In an earlier post, I mentioned I was going to TechEd... and I said I would post my schedule when I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/18/2004
101 VB.NET 2003 Videos Released onto MSDN
Recently we launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/17/2004
Visual Basic Team Blog has launched...
Look for lots of posts from the upcoming TechEd conference as well as material around all things...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/17/2004
So many posts in so little time...
Cyrus (a developer with the C# IDE team) has obviously needed to blog for awhile, and when he...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/16/2004
SteveJS discusses unmanaged/managed and mixed debugging in VS
Steve Steiner, a developer on the VS debugger team, fills us in on some of the differences between...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/15/2004
Eric posts the C# Team's schedule for TechEd 2004
Check out the full post for info on Eric's talk in particular...TechEd and the C# team ... Here's...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/14/2004