Just a note that I am back from vacation (have been for a few days now) and have finally dug out from under email, etc. I plan to get back to the business of posting what I hope you will all find helpful, interesting and/or useful in the next day or so...

It's mid-September again, which means that I'm on vacation (my wedding anniversary -- 12 years!). I'm planning on spending the next week and a half (starting today) spending lots of time with the family, playing some music (saxophone, flute), drinking...

Today's topic involves WebExceptions and their proper handling. Along the way, we'll talk a little about HttpWebResponse, ServicePoint and connection limits. Whenever you write an application that communicates on the web, you inevitably run into connection...

Last week, I got my hands on a copy of Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS Locator . This weekend, I bought the cable assembly to connect it to my Pocket PC and got it hooked up in my car. This is my first GPS device (odd, I realize, for a Microsoft geek...

A couple of weeks ago, I promised to post the VB.NET equivalent to my C# command line example . Today, I'm going to show you how to do the same thing with the VB.NET command line compiler. In the C# post, I suggested adding the following environment variable...