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Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
April 2004 - Posts
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Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: What has the biggest change at Microsoft since you've been here? How do you design new features for C#? Read More...
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This new feature, which isn't limited to Windows Forms, allows a single class to extend across multiple files, isn't limited to Windows Forms but the designer-generated code is just screaming out for a solution like this. Jay writes: Winforms designed Read More...
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In many ways, I'm ok with that; it isn't like they took away the book when they made the movie... LOTR is one of the few exceptions in recent times, although I also enjoyed Timeline (forgive me)... Bourne Identity might have been a good movie, I can't Read More...
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We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center , check them out! Just a little note: If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the WMP9 codecs (or WMP9 itself , although that Read More...
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From Paschal's blog... Data Structures for VB programmers Interesting PDF file to understand .NET stuff like basic types, arrays, collections and regular expressions. Download here Source: Only4gurus Good presentation... from a great author . It appears Read More...
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This very recent article from CodeProject.com shows a Windows Forms control (C#) that allows you to browse AD objects... I have some issues with the implemenation (mainly: why use a User Control... why not just inherit from TreeView?), but the idea is Read More...
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If you have any opinions on this topic, make sure you click on the link below and comment through Eric's blog... Who are the best C# bloggers? I'd like to create a list of the best C# bloggers, primarily those outside of Microsoft. Please comment with Read More...
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Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging... Attaching to a process without a dialog In [a recent post] , Shaykat gave one alternative to the ntsd '-pn' option. I figured I would give two more. Read More...
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It is all about "My", a feature of Visual Basic 2005... and I think it is fairly interesting stuff :) Check it out here... Read More...
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Check out this post from 'The Wayward WebLog' ... it is a good discussion starter for anyone who wants to chat about ORM (object-relational mapping) ... ObjectSpaces: The Devil is in the Demand I’ve coined the phrase ‘object span’ to describe the ability Read More...
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I had read this in the 'offline' version of MSDN magazine (you know, that one that uses paper and is hard to copy and paste from?), but I hadn't noticed it was available online until now: Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET MSDN Read More...
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I am a closet audiophile, with all the usual history.... did the 'music man' thing for plays, moved up to music guy for bar bands, blah, blah, blah... spent way too much time worried about the alignment of my high-end tape deck, etc... but at some point Read More...
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Adam Nathan has created a home for a ton of PInvoke signatures , organized by Module/DLL and pre-populated ( by the man himself ) with a ton of the most common signatures... I'll let the site describe itself with this text from the "What is this site?" Read More...
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Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats for a full listing of upcoming chats, but here are a couple of VB ones that you might be interested in... Debugging Visual Basic .NET Applications On Tuesday April 20 at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time , join members of Read More...
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With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey (VS 2005), Scott explains how to create your first debugger visualizer: Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 Community Tech Preview ... Visualizers allow for advanced, customized Read More...
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via Kent Sharkey's Blog Five ASP.NET Controls You Might Be Craving "In this article, we'll tackle five ASP.NET features that require wicked and creative code." ... if you're looking for a [out of the box] data-bound bulleted or numbered list of strings, Read More...
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If you haven't been reading his blog , then just let me point out that this post is completely consistent with all of his others... I'll let you decide if this is a good or bad thing :) ... .... I suspect that a whole hoard of you banded together to try Read More...
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Visual Basic 2003 or 2005 (Whidbey) questions are welcome... just come on over and post your thoughts: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbfaq/ Read More...
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Scott , one of my colleagues from my first year at MSDN, has a blog now and he just posted a cool entry illustrating the new configuration system in VS 2005... Configuration is a breeze. In the current Visual Studio .NET 2005, you’re going to find Read More...
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Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment : C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases Read More...
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In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'. So everybody hopefully knows you can put a star "*" for either of the last 2 version numbers of the AssemblyVersion attribute. Read More...
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Waltham 4/14 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver) New York 4/15 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver) Louisville 4/20 (Jay Schmelzer and Paul Vick) Chicago 4/21 (Jay Schmelzer and Paul Vick) Philadelphia 4/21 (Sean Draine and Joe Binder) Denver 4/26 (Robert Green Read More...
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Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonetheless C# Featurette #2 - Inline Warning Control Another feature that we added for Whidbey is the ability to selectively disable warnings within your code. For example: #pragma warning disable Read More...
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If you are using the CTP (Community Technical Preview) or you are just interested in Whidbey/VS2005, then you'll definitely want to check out the new blog created to allow various team members to post info on VS2005. Check it out here . You might also Read More...
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I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking panels on top of each other, naming them step1...stepN and then showing and hiding them as necessary. Not exactly an easy-to-reuse approach, but it works. Read More...
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This is so very cool... a great idea, good explanations, tons of useful bits of code and information, and even a very graphically pleasing set of diagrams in the article!! Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents By Jonathan Hodgson This article presents Read More...
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Make sure you check out your University/College bookstore! "vbjay" mentioned today (on GotDotNet) that he bought the Academic version of VS.NET 2003 from his college bookstore for just a bit over $100.00. I did some googling around and found several University Read More...
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If you haven't read much about Refactoring before, I'd suggest you check out Jay's earlier post on the subject , but he is now going into quite a bit more detail. Whidbey Refactorings: Rename Let's start by talking about Rename. I view Rename as being Read More...
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Check it out here Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets Scott Mitchell Summary: Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets. A set is an unordered collection of unique items that can be enumerated and compared to Read More...
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I didn't know this existed... so I'm going to assume that a few of you don't know about it either... there is a Blog site for MVPs at http://www.msmvps.com/ , with some blogs hosted on that site (using .Text) and links to MVP blogs on other sites. Read More...
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Bah... I've been digging around the web for a couple of days now, and I'm getting frustrated, so I thought I would share my pain with you Here's the scenario (and see if you can spot my key mistake here, it will be pretty obvious to most developers who Read More...
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I was browsing DevX's Visual Basic Zone ( http://www.devx.com/vb ) and I found so much great stuff I just thought I'd better point out a couple of useful items; Printing Info for VB6 in two parts ( part 1 and part 2 ) and I also found http://www.freevbcode.com/ Read More...
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Test Driven Development as a Practice – Level 400 Thursday, April 15, 2004, 9:00-10:30 A.M. Pacific Time Microsoft® Press author Ron Jeffries, author of the recently released “Extreme Programming Adventures in C#” will discuss the Read More...
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This came out a few days ago, but in case you missed it... Service Pack 6 Microsoft Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 with Visual SourceSafe 6.0d addresses known issues with Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Source Safe 6.0.... Read More...
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Very little to say... I had a great time (and maybe I'll talk about that later, but it is pretty far off-topic from my normal 'content'), but now I have hundreds of emails to dig through... most of them have resolved themselves (they emailed me... Exchange Read More...
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