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Luke, a PM on the C# IDE team has started a blog... should be a good source of info, especially around the new Express Edition. Intro + C# Express ... The project that I’ve been working on for most of my time at Microsoft is the Visual C#...

How Long Now? Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes how to calculate the difference between two dates in Visual Basic .NET, and builds an application that counts down to the release of Halo 2.

What's New in Help for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 1 Find out about the newest Help features in Visual Basic 2005 Beta 1, including distinguishing Visual Basic from other languages, more task-oriented topics, and an emphasis on code examples.

Matthew Gertz, Dev Lead for the VB Compiler, Editor & Debugger team has written an article on operator overloading in Visual Basic 2005... Operator Overloading In Visual Basic 2005 Operator Overloading, new to Visual Basic 2005, simplifies the use...

I had been planning to go to Spiderman 2 last night at 12:01 am... but I decided to skip it instead... so I went out during the day and spent my Father's Day gift (a gift certificate for Best Buy... my wife made a great choice) on a wireless xbox controller...

Ah, launch day... what else would have most of my colleagues sitting in their offices at 12:30 am in the morning on a Monday... and there isn't a single Halo game running!! So, if you haven't heard... the official site for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 is...

As a big fan of components, my applications are often composed of many different assemblies... essentially I break out anything that seems 'ready to reuse'... but perhaps I should reconsider? Grouping classes in an assembly This useful bit of information...

I installed MCE onto my main home computer recently, which happens to have a modem that supports caller id.... and I was just sitting in front of it tonight watching a recorded episode of “ The Dead Zone ” when someone called... a nice transparent...

For various reasons, I'm just buried under work these days... but I still managed to revamp the /vbasic/community area of the VB developer center ... check it out and let me know what you think... Oh... you have no idea what it used to look like, so it...

This new article from Ken Getz provides an overview of many of the new features in Visual Basic 2005, including "My", "Edit and Continue", "AutoCorrect", "Just My Code" and more... Check it out here

It is like bootleg concert recordings but the quality is better and I had to pay for it :) Tonight my wife and I went out to a Jewel Concert , which was great... although our position on the grass gave us a better view of one of the main support poles...

Update: This chat has been cancelled, sorry folks!! Click here for details on the chat and check out Scott's post on the subject (shown below) ... C# Team Chat: What we did at TechEd (Thurs 6/24, 1pm PST) A few C# Program Managers (including...

Debugger Window Menu Items: Where should they be? The VS debugger since 7.0 has put most debugger windows on the Debug menu, under the Windows sub-menu. I say 'most' because the Output window lives on the View menu, under Other Windows sub-menu. Where...

Well, maybe not improved, but certainly more complicated... I setup my new data model , built a new voting component in Visual Basic, and put it up at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/ Eventually, once I've run it for awhile and worked out any kinks, this...

And (hopefully the formatting will work out ok in the blog) here are the results :) What release are you most excited about? Halo 2: (20.7...

and it isn't about Whidbey, oh my... :) Visual C# 2003 "Implement Interface" feature Just discovered a great tip for Visual C# 2003. If you implement an interface (or event/delegate) on your class and don't want to type all the methods, just type the...

If you follow other people's blogs, then you've probably heard about the Power Pack by now, but I'm happy to annouce that the overview article (complete with pictures!!) is available on MSDN! Check it out by clicking here!

It is my first "Advanced Basics" column, describing how to create a databound radio button list... I hope you like it! Click here to view the article.

I've put a few of the sessions up here ... more to follow!

Just today, I've added the new "Smart Client Offline Application Block" (from PAG), FotoVision , these articles by Cliff Atkinson about PowerPoint ... and I brought home Murach's "ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET" to start reading in my spare time...

I'm slowly getting the TechEd slides up and onto MSDN... the first few for VB are up here , SQL's are here ... and more are coming very soon now for C#, C++, ASP.NET and others... ( Listening To : The Darkest One [ The Tragically Hip / In Violet...

When I started out to build a voting control, I drew up a set of requirements that led to a 5+ table system... some form of UI for creating/editing polls... plus the control itself. Then, when I had SQL running behind my web site, I wanted something up...

Scott Watermasysk blogs about the new 'Using' statement in VB.NET 2005... Using in VB.NET I have not touched VB.NET since early in .NET Beta 1, so I am a bit rusty. One thing I was happy to find is support for using statements in VB.NET 2005. It took...

Then, first let me say you have my pity, and then let me direct you to this nice piece by my old business partner (we started our first consulting business together out of our house)... Responding to RFP's Many of you who are also consultants know that...

As with my earlier messing around with a poll, I took a concept from the www.asp.net site today and made my own "CheckDotNet.aspx" page. The one on www.asp.net only checks for the .NET Framework 1.0 or better, so I modified the logic to detect 1.1 and...