Code/Tea/Etc...
Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
Going way back here... but I don't think I mentioned this before.... Gus Perez posts a Snippet Editor...
Snippets are a pretty cool feature of VS 2005.... aka Intellitasks to some... and Gus has created a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/14/2004
Enabling/Disabling AutoRun from your .NET application...
I answer quite a few questions on the forums on GotDotNet, and sometimes those answers are...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/13/2004
Duncan's VS.NET 2003 wouldn't run... and why that is good for you :)
Something must have changed, but I had no idea what it was... but suddenly, existing applications...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/13/2004
Eric Gunnerson discusses Enums, Validation and Versioning...
Giving us an early peek at his TechEd 2004 talk, Eric discusses how to handle enums in your code,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/11/2004
Profiling is fun...
Back in highschool, I cut lawns for a lot of people.... so many that it was really a summer job and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/08/2004
Grant discusses Iterators...
I've often had email exchanges and thought about posting them as blog entries... and now I've seen...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/07/2004
New 'Diary of a .NET Newbie' column up at vbCity.com
Part of vbCity's newsletter, the 'diary' column always has some great content focused on how-to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/07/2004
If video is your thing...
Watch Mike Schinkel interview Joe Binder (PM of VB's My feature) about VB 2005's "My" Classes. Not...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/07/2004
Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...
I heard this was coming in a few weeks, but it is here now.... This is a free download, but note...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/07/2004
PInvokes available as a VS.NET Add-In...
Amazing stuff... Adam Nathan creates pinvoke.net, to general acclaim, and then follows only a few...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/07/2004
Some FAQs are more FA than others....
Joe Mayo posted a great 'frequently asked question' along with a very clear answer, to the C# FAQ...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/06/2004
Eric is asking questions again...
This time, he wants to know what you think about C#'s community:C# Community Review... If a friend...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/04/2004
New VS2005 focused MSDN TV episodes available...
From Dan's blog:Lots of good quality MSDN shows for your viewing pleasure:Scott Guthrie on Data with...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/04/2004
RSS Aggregator add-in for Visual Studio .NET
Very cool article from Code Project; this is something I have wanted for awhile..... from the moment...
Author: Duncanma Date: 05/01/2004
Eric Gunnerson on Channel 9...
Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today:What has the biggest change at...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/30/2004
Jay discusses the use of partial classes in Windows Forms 2.0
This new feature, which isn't limited to Windows Forms, allows a single class to extend across...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/30/2004
I know that movies based on books are often a disappointment...
In many ways, I'm ok with that; it isn't like they took away the book when they made the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/29/2004
Visual Basic At The Movies now available...
We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, check them...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/28/2004
Presentation from Francesco Balena on Data Structures for VB Programmers
From Paschal's blog...Data Structures for VB programmers Interesting PDF file to understand .NET...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/27/2004
Ok, if you are programming against AD... this is so very cool...
This very recent article from CodeProject.com shows a Windows Forms control (C#) that allows you to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/26/2004
Eric is looking for your opinion on C# related blogs...
If you have any opinions on this topic, make sure you click on the link below and comment through...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/25/2004
Gregg Miskelly covers some more debugging options...
Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging...Attaching to a process...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/25/2004
My MSDN Magazine article is up on the MSDN site...
It is all about "My", a feature of Visual Basic 2005... and I think it is fairly interesting stuff...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/21/2004
Matt Warren discusses ObjectSpaces and ORM in general
Check out this post from 'The Wayward WebLog'... it is a good discussion starter for anyone who...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/21/2004
Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET
I had read this in the 'offline' version of MSDN magazine (you know, that one that uses paper and is...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/20/2004
Somewhere inside me... an audiophile just died.
I am a closet audiophile, with all the usual history.... did the 'music man' thing for plays, moved...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/19/2004
pinvoke.net ... a place to post and find all the Win32 API signatures you need ...
Adam Nathan has created a home for a ton of PInvoke signatures, organized by Module/DLL and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/19/2004
Upcoming Visual Basic .NET Chats
Check out msdn.microsoft.com/chats for a full listing of upcoming chats, but here are a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/19/2004
Scott Nonnenberg on Debugger Visualizers in VS 2005
With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey (VS 2005), Scott...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/17/2004
ASP.NET (with C#) article by Dino Esposito...
via Kent Sharkey's BlogFive ASP.NET Controls You Might Be Craving"In this article, we'll tackle five...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/17/2004
I've started up a Blog for Frequently Asked Questions about VB.NET
Visual Basic 2003 or 2005 (Whidbey) questions are welcome... just come on over and post your...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/16/2004
Hey Scott Seely is blogging!!
Scott, one of my colleagues from my first year at MSDN, has a blog now and he just posted a cool...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/14/2004
C# Featurette #3 from Eric Gunnerson
Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/14/2004
Grant points out a very unknown configuration option for version numbers...
In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/14/2004
Upcoming Dates/Locations on the Visual Basic World Tour
Waltham 4/14 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver) New York 4/15 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver)...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/13/2004
Eric covers another new C# Whidbey (VS 2005) feature
Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonethelessC# Featurette #2 - Inline...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/13/2004
VS 2005 has a blog?
If you are using the CTP (Community Technical Preview) or you are just interested in Whidbey/VS2005,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/11/2004
Developing a Windows Forms Wizard...
I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/11/2004
Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents
This is so very cool... a great idea, good explanations, tons of useful bits of code and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/09/2004
Are you a student looking for VS.NET?
Make sure you check out your University/College bookstore! "vbjay" mentioned today (on GotDotNet)...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/09/2004
Jay Bazuzi discusses the 'Rename' Refactoring in some detail...
If you haven't read much about Refactoring before, I'd suggest you check out Jay's earlier post on...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/09/2004
Part 6 of Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures is now live...
Check it out here Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets Scott Mitchell Summary: Scott Mitchell...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/07/2004
MVP Blogs
I didn't know this existed... so I'm going to assume that a few of you don't know about it either......
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/07/2004
Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML...
Bah... I've been digging around the web for a couple of days now, and I'm getting frustrated, so I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/07/2004
Great VB6 content at DevX
I was browsing DevX's Visual Basic Zone (www.devx.com/vb) and I found so much great stuff I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/06/2004
Upcoming webcast on Test Driven Development (TDD)
Test Driven Development as a Practice – Level 400 Thursday, April 15, 2004, 9:00-10:30 A.M....
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/05/2004
Visual Studio Service Pack 6 Released
This came out a few days ago, but in case you missed it... Service Pack 6 Microsoft Service Pack 6...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/04/2004
Back from Disneyland...
Very little to say... I had a great time (and maybe I'll talk about that later, but it is pretty far...
Author: Duncanma Date: 04/04/2004