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Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
June 2004 - Posts
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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# Express Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 myself) presented Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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%) Visual Studio .NET 2005: (46.6%) SQL Server 2005: (8.6%) Longhorn: (15.5%) None of the above: (8.6%) Total votes: Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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! Read More...
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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. Read More...
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I've put a few of the sessions up here ... more to follow! Read More...
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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... Read More...
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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 Light] Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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I haven't taken into account the comments to Paul Vick's request for VB bloggers , but the page has been updated a bit based on my own list of folks that blog about VB. Check it out here . Read More...
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In yet another great article from CodeProject, Julijan Sribar describes the details of drawing out a 3D Pie Chart , and not only does it work, but his explanation is exteremely clear, detailed and includes lots of diagrams that really add to the explanation Read More...
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From Justin Rogers A conversion from integer to long form english... I could write that ;-) [Editorial note: A more complete sample is available through article: http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/articles/151757.aspx ] I find little conversion functions Read More...
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As other people have probably mentioned here and there, there is a very nice health club near Microsoft and a membership to that club is one of the options in our benefits plan. Therefore, it isn't all that surprising that most of the folks in the gym Read More...
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It appears to work fine... assuming you haven't voted from the machine you are currently on, you should be able to see the new button (and try it out) at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net Currently, Halo 2 appears to be behind VS 2005... which was not what Read More...
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I've been using unpublished posts as a way to create planned blog posts for later... then, when I have a chance I go back and finish them up and mark them as 'Published'... but I just noticed that when I do that, the published date is the date on which Read More...
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I've added some functionality to my personal site because I now have SQL Server available on the back end... so, as a test, I've put a voting component onto the home page at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net ... I plan to add some features to it (like 'just Read More...
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It has been up for a few days now, but in case you haven't found it yet... Andrew Troelsen has written a good article on programming Outlook with C#, covering using the object model and building Add-ins... An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using Read More...
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For most folks working with ASP.NET, this should be taken as essential information ... Don't let the Whidbey reference in the first paragraph fool you, by the way, this post describes how to accomplish debugging as a non-admin in Visual Studio .NET 2003 Read More...
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Check out this link to go right to the VB section... lots of great info in there... or check out the C# section here . (found via the VSTO2 blog... ) Note that this is not a prototype of the next version of MSDN... it is intended to be consumed by the Read More...
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You may have been hearing a bit about nullable types in Whidbey (a feature in both VB and C#) but you should read this post by Paul to get an explanation of what they are, how they work and why they are useful... all from a VB point of view! The Truth Read More...
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The 3 Leaf guys, (well probably just one of them... but who knows which one), talk about "Application Level Events" in Whidbey Here's a code snippet to illustrate what they are talking about... something that I like to think of as "Global.asa" (I haven't Read More...
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Who are the best VB bloggers? A while ago Eric asked “ Who are the best C# bloggers external to MS? ” which sparked a similar question in my own mind: Who are the best VB bloggers external to MS? I have my own opinions, but I'm interested Read More...
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