December 2003 - Posts

• Bandwidth Drought

  I'm off in Winnipeg, visiting relatives for Christmas, and I've been experiencing severe bandwidth issues. I brought my laptop along to do some work on my next book, check email and to play movies for my son, but I've barely even had it on. Dial-up isn't Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:44 PM by Duncanma | 5 Comments Filed under: Personal Musings

• New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN

  The latest 'issue' of my Coding 4 Fun column has been published to MSDN; Duncan Mackenzie describes how to control a serial-port–connected LCD panel using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET. It is probably worth mentioning Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:53 PM by Duncanma | 3 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Digital Music and Media, Visual C#

• SharpToolbox

  Fabrice just sent me a note about http://SharpToolbox.com a huge directory of .NET tools and resources ... pretty cool site that I hadn't noticed before. Great... now I have to dig through it all... I hate the thought that I've missed out on something Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:32 AM by Duncanma | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Visual C#

• Playing around

  I've been playing with some serial port code lately, working out the details of controlling an LCD Panel... I forsee an update to my music system very soon. Read More... Posted Sunday, December 07, 2003 2:45 AM by Duncanma | 4 Comments Filed under: Personal Musings

• New MSDN TV 'episode' on FxCop

  I'm a big FxCop fan, so I'm pretty happy to see this episode.... Code Correctness with FxCop Michael Murray and Jeffrey Van Gogh from the CLR Team describe FxCop, the freely-available code analysis tool from Microsoft. Read More... Posted Friday, December 05, 2003 3:43 PM by Duncanma | 2 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Visual C#

• Comp Sci is cool

  A neat little discussion about Random Number generators (or pseudo-random that is) has been happening on GDN for the last day or so, http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=169292&Page=1#169538 neat stuff.... Read More... Posted Friday, December 05, 2003 10:01 AM by Duncanma | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal Musings

• Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads

  Localized versions of the Visual Studio Bootstrapper are now available on the bootstrapper workspace including French, Spanish, German, Korean, Italian, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and English. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:38 PM by Duncanma | 7 Comments Filed under: Visual C#

• C# Books Page Up

  Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/using/books/default.aspx for a small selection of books that I've found useful... and I'm always looking for suggestions! Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2003 11:43 PM by Duncanma | 6 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Visual C#

• Windows Forms Reference Application

  It happens to be an advertisment for Infragistics, but it looks pretty cool and shows off a bunch of the Application Blocks , so I'll be spending some time reading through it! Check it out [from Code Project ] Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2003 12:06 PM by Duncanma | 4 Comments Filed under: Visual C#