The Code Project is hosting a competition (and offering cool prizes) for the best Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets. Find out more . Pretty cool that you get to play with new technology and maybe earn some swag at the same time, huh?

Oops. I guess I forgot to publish this post after my webcast yesterday. Sorry about that. Thanks to everyone who attended the session today, err...yesterday, as we talked about classes and objects in Visual Basic. Here are some more resources related...

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Tonight after the "Best of Vista Launch" user group event in Little Rock (btw, what a great crowd; thanks to everyone who attended!), I was telling someone about the brand-new Beginner Developer Learning Center . This is a great resource for anyone new...

Like many of you, I read Scott's blog . He's just released a cool Halo video , in which he explains some of the benefits of ASP.NET AJAX . So if you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

If you use Windows Live Messenger, you can contribute to a charity of your choice, just by chatting! Learn more , and get involved !

Read some of these tips and tricks for the Visual Studio 2005 IDE , and boost your productivity.

I've never been a big fan of cats. Sure, I had one as a kid (until it got out of the house one day and never returned). I also had a pure black cat (named Midnight, of course) when I was 19. But with Midnight, I discovered that I'm just not fond of the...

Thanks to everyone who attended today's webcast. Here are some resources for this session: View the on-demand video of this webcast (available 24 - 48 hours after the conclusion of the webcast) Download the slides Download the code View upcoming sessions...

It's time for another session in my webcast series . This time it's we're talking about the fundamentals of the Visual Basic language, so we'll cover variables, constants, and statements. Here's the link to register . Hope to see you there!

Check it out, web developers, this is a handy tool for exploring / understanding / debugging web pages in IE, with features that enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. Locate and select specific elements on a...