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Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
November 2003 - Posts
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Like a lot of other people, I've recently found Tim Dawson's Windows Forms controls along with a great set of useful articles... I'm particularly impressed with the design-time support he has built into these controls. Check them out if you are into Windows Read More...
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Written with the wonderful assistance of Erik Porter , Joel Semeniuk and Andy Baron , this book is focused on the move from VB6 to VB.NET... check it out at Amazon.com Read More...
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I'm getting a little tired of playing with people I don't know... so if anyone is into playing Halo feel free to try to track me down or if someone felt like it, we could even set up our own game(s)... my Halo name is, boringly enough, "Duncanma" so you Read More...
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A pretty cool library for drawing 2D graphs, with a demo project and an associated article, appeared on Code Project last week... you might want to check it out. A flexible line graph class library in C# (Code Project) by JChampion Read More...
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If you think we are talking about Whidbey too much... don't read this post :) The powerpoints and demos are both online for Anders Hejlsberg's talk on the changes to C# for the Whidbey release: In "Whidbey", the Visual C# language will be extended with Read More...
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Exploring the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit by Joel Semeniuk Read More...
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from Gus Perez (via Dan Fernandez ); Gus wrote Space Invaders in C# ( source ). Sweet! Read More...
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I use this program all the time, but I paved my machine recently and didn't have it installed... It took me awhile to figure out the web site for the tool, so I thought I would post it for everyone's enjoyment! For those that haven't had the pleasure Read More...
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This isn't new, but it is new to me... http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/prodtechinfo/devtools/netcf/faq/default.aspx Read More...
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From CodeProject.com (via James Avery's Blog ); A Pretty Good Splash Screen in C# - Tutorial on how to build a full featured splash page (includes fading, progress bar, etc) Read More...
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I've received a few emails and blog comments wondering how to submit comments on the MSDN C# Developer Center , suggestions for new comments, etc. so I thought I would quickly mention that anyone who has any comment at all about the site should feel free Read More...
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If you were a big fan of programmable calculators in University (or highschool, I guess it depends on how much $$ you were willing to spend on a calculator back then) then you should like this; C# Programmable Calculator is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) Read More...
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Read it in his blog , it has some neat stuff around GDI+ that I might end up using in my music app ... Read More...
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Only a few bloggers listed so far, but more will be coming in the near future: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/community/blogs/default.aspx Read More...
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We've been playing with some new developer center home page designs, and we decided to update the C# site first. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/ and let me know what you think... Of special interest to the blogging folks, notice that Read More...
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Puppy Luppy just commented: Downloaded the SQL Server/Yukon Hands On Labs...can't find anything in the c:\Labs directory...as in: C:\Labs\DTS Lab\SourceQuery.sql C:\Labs\DTS Lab\DTSLabDimProduct.dtsx but didn't give an email address... so everyone gets Read More...
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For the next 6 months, many of the PDC Sessions will available at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm as streaming audio with synchronized PPT and demos. Check it out!! Read More...
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This document provides an overview of the new features available for C# developers in Visual Studio "Whidbey". Download the Word document from here Read More...
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I recently acquired a digital camera so I started thinking about a photo blog... something my family out in Winnipeg could subscribe to. A colleague, who has a camera phone, suggested textamerica, which seemed quite happy to accept my registration but Read More...
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I just read the description of this game on xbox.com , which I've done before ... then I read "Nov 2003" for a ship date. I swear I actually shivered... oooh. Turns out, according to EBGames.com at least, that it is 12/15/2003... which is the day before Read More...
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Earlier today I posted some background pics... including some from www.dolomitesworld.com ... Frank Redmond (Content Strategist for .NET Framework) just bust out laughing in my office because he thought I was posting backgrounds based on one of the many Read More...
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As a follow up my last post ... I also found this fairly clear and simple explanation of using just SHAutoComplete (which is much easier than implementing IAutoComplete2) in your applications Read More...
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I was playing with the SHAutoComplete API call and the IAutoComplete (2) interface last night (adding auto-complete to an application of mine) and I found a neat article and related component on CodeProject... C# does Shell, Part 4 by Arik Poznanski This Read More...
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I'm always looking for nice desktop backgrounds that are tasteful enough to display at work and searching on google (on this particular topic) just doesn't find that many high-quality sites, so I thought I'd post a few of my recent finds; http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/Backgrounds/backgrounds.html Read More...
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Ages ago, Scott Mitchell wrote the 1st of 6 articles on Data Structures in C#... and now it is finally up (through no fault of Scott's) Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide.asp Read More...
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There was a little issue with our criteria for the VB feed , which has now been resolved... so you should notice that feed will have a fair bit more content going forward... all of it hopefully relevant to VB types (like me!) Read More...
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Sam "blogger guy" Gentile has a new article up on MSDN: Beyond (COM) Add Reference: Has Anyone Seen the Bridge? Summary Sam Gentile explains the need for bridges between COM Interop and the Microsoft .NET Framework, and how bridges are implemented in Read More...
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Anson Horton gave me this cool .NET component and source code last night so I've uploaded it to microsoft.com for your burning fun The XPBurnComponent allows your .NET applications to burn files to CDR/W discs on a Window XP® or Windows 2003 Server Read More...
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Labs, Labs, get your labs here... 64 Bit BizTalk Compact Framework Next Gen Security (HOL 502) Office (Visio) Servers/Misc (CMS, RTC, WMI, MOM) SQL Server/Yukon Terrarium Lab Tools and Languages (Whidbey, etc...) Windows Forms The Longhorn and Indigo Read More...
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Nothing amazingly difficult about this task, but it was an interesting GotDotNet question posted today so I thought I would answer it here; Glenn Holden asks how to turn this file based function into one for images stored at http addresses... Protected Read More...
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I was just browsing the chats page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats (boy, if ever a page was in need of an RSS feed, this would be it) and I noticed some really cool upcoming chats; Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) on January 14, 2004 Read More...
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If you haven't checked it out yet , you should.. people are starting to post questions, file bugs and even get answers Read More...
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Jan Gray talks about the update to the CLR Profiler We've just updated the CLRProfiler distribution . Once again, we're shipping both the source and the prebuilt binaries, and this time we're delighted to include a terrific ~100 page tutorial and reference Read More...
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It seems to me that you just have to be in technology to fully understand this comic; But if you are, it is such a reality of your day to day life that I want to blow it up 3 or 4x and post it on my wall. Read More...
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My music system is finally hooked back up in my new house (after months of sitting unplugged) but I didn't have a network connection available for it. Well, the recent release of some new networking standards have made 802.11b adapters rather cheap so Read More...
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The Longhorn preview distributed at the PDC is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads for active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers as well as for Certified Partner and Breadth ISV/Empower members. Read More...
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I updated a ton of sessions on the PDC site today, many (yep, I'm being vague... I don't have the details with me at the moment) sessions that didn't have slides do now. You may also notice that the location of the PPT files has changed... I moved them Read More...
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Julia appears to have lost something I downloaded and installed the VB Language Enhancements for Whidbey White Paper & code from an MSI and cannot freakin' find it anywhere! :-) I had to stop looking after 20 minutes. So hopefully, I'll update this post Read More...
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Cory Smith posted about an upcoming session at the Fort Worth .NET Users Group , G. Andrew Duthie talking about ASP.NET (November 18th) ... this sounds to me like a PDC-quality session, for free and with a lot more time for audience interaction. If you Read More...
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Ron Krauter posted this comment to one of my earlier posts ; re: Reading Blogs... 11/2/2003 9:59 AM Ron Krauter Hi, I read your excellent article about ClickOnce on msdn. One of the problems we are having is deploying applications to users machine that Read More...
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Logging Application Block http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/Logging.asp "This block is a reusable code component that uses the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) and the Microsoft .NET Read More...
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Erica doesn't have a blog, so I'm just trying to be helpful... http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20031107WINFXBA/manifest.xml What is WinFX -The New Programming Interface Introduced in Windows "Longhorn" Learn the object-oriented, Read More...
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/csharp_generics.asp Summary: This article discusses the problem space generics address, how they are implemented, the benefits of the programming model, and unique innovations, Read More...
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Brad Abrams already mentioned these, but we are going to be linking to them from MSDN soon so I thought I would give out the microsoft.com URLs for these 2 images (one in jpg and PDF format); http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/f/a2fc47d2-8bdf-4977-8364-1f38b893dba5/LHArch_PDC2003.png Read More...
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I had some drinks with Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn at the PDC and discovered that we are all audio freaks... and while our conversation was focused mostly on mixing boards and real-time noise filtering... we did talk a bit about their .NET "radio" show Read More...
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It seems like I just got back from the PDC... I opened my laptop for the first time today, which isn't to say I wasn't working... I have email and access to update the various sites I'm working on from other machines... but I certainly wasn't coding. Read More...
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