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Sara Williams, overlord manager of MSDN, has started her own blog . I'm sure this will be a great place for discussion around MSDN futures and features. I know that many people who read my blog use MSDN every day, so I expect to see lots of comments!

I’m writing this from Las Vegas now, actually I’m on a plane heading to Las Vegas… but this post won’t show up until I’ve landed and found some form of connection, for a few days of the N+I conference (Networld + Interop...

I wrote an article back in August 2002 on some of the API calls that were documented as part of the Microsoft settlement agreement... but in the end, I never published it... so here it is for your viewing pleasure; http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/writing...

After many, many weeks of work by many, many people... the new developer centers are up on MSDN! Feel free to check out mine http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx (mine being a vague word that suggests I had a lot to do with and will have...

Check it out! http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/thayer/

The Coding4Fun column has had some interesting side effects. I get to use the code I write, something that isn't very common when you are paid to write samples. I wanted to pull down the new Matrix Trailer , but it is around 60mb and I often switch...

I didn't write it (Peter Hallam did), but I was just using it and thought "wow, this is cool, it needs to be found by more people!" If you build console apps that take multiple arguments (generate.exe /vroot:vbasic /target:c:\files\ ... etc.) then...

Wow, people pick this stuff up quick... that was just an updated version of my BITS wrapper that I posted TODAY... Appreciate the link from ScottW and Chris Kinsman , but I'd rather people read the associated article (at http://msdn.microsoft.com...

The full source for the MusicXP application, without the database (which is up in the GDN Workspace as a release) is now available as a User Sample on GDN ... Enjoy

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My name is Julie and I am not certified. I stress out about it because I feel that it might garner me some peer recognition that I do not have after almost 20 years of programming. I don't need it for my clients or my business. [ Julie Lerman...

Darren's comments on my previous post: I certainly don't want to get into a debate over this but, shouldn't the question be: "what is it best to use?". I'm probably biased because I never really programmed in any typed languages before .NET, but,...

Brad Abrams posted about the use BCL types vs. language specific type names (in sample code) today , which just happens to be a topic I've had to think about myself when writing sample code for my own articles, so I thought I would make a comment...

As per my previous post , I'm slowly uploading bits and pieces of " MusicXP " to a GotDotNet Workspace . The Music Scanner utility went up today, a messy sprawl of console application code that scans your system for .wma and .mp3 files and sends them...

There have been a few VB vs C# debates flying around... I'll refrain from linking to them all, as they aren’t really saying anything new. One comment in particular caught my eye though, and I have to respond. Jesse Ezell's post includes a quote...