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• This blog has moved... notice #2...

  For various reasons, the biggest being my desire to play around with .Text, I've moved my blog to my own server at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma following the 3 leaf model when they moved, I thought I should post this notice a couple of times.. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:17 PM by Duncanma | 2 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Personal Musings, Digital Music and Media, Visual C#, TechEd, CSharp Featured Team Posts

• This blog has moved...

  For various reasons, the biggest being my desire to play around with .Text, I've moved my blog to my own server at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net The first post over there shows the app that I wrote last night and then used to copy all of my posts and Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:11 AM by Duncanma | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Personal Musings, Digital Music and Media, Visual C#, TechEd

• Ended the "Most anticipated release" poll...

  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... Posted Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:43 PM by Duncanma | 6 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Personal Musings

• More playing with ASP.NET

  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... Posted Saturday, June 12, 2004 12:58 AM by Duncanma | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Personal Musings

• Duncan's VS.NET 2003 wouldn't run... and why that is good for you :)

  Something must have changed, but I had no idea what it was... but suddenly, existing applications (the same version of which run fine on other machines) were crashing with IO errors, specifically "System.IO.IOException: The device is not ready.". At the Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:46 AM by Duncanma | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Personal Musings

• Profiling is fun...

  Back in highschool, I cut lawns for a lot of people.... so many that it was really a summer job and kept me quite busy, and then in University I took a job laying sod for a landscape company.... kinda went from the amateur level to the professional there. Read More... Posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 12:50 AM by Duncanma | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET General, Personal Musings

• My MSDN Magazine article is up on the MSDN site...

  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... Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:39 PM by Duncanma | 12 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Personal Musings

• Digital Media and Media Center Topics

  I'm getting back into my column writing, and I'm looking for topic suggestions... I actually have a long list of ideas already, but I'm always interested in hearing what you folks want to read about! So... suggest away! Feel free to include topics related Read More... Posted Friday, January 02, 2004 8:55 PM by Duncanma | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic, .NET General, Personal Musings, Digital Music and Media, Visual C#