Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
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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...
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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...
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Every day I get from 1 to 10 emails asking me various VB questions... some I answer by pointing to a link, some by providing code, and sometimes I just point people to the newsgroups or forums that exist for this type of question... but this time I thought Read More...
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As I discussed in an earlier post , I wanted to know if people found preview articles useful... and at least a few people said they did, so here is another one.... Rotating Is Fun Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes the creation of a simple ‘content Read More...
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Serge Baranovsky, the man behind vbCity , just mentioned to me that they have started hosting blogs... just their staff at the moment, but they have plans to grow... Since vbCity is already one of the best sites for VB developers, this is good news! http://blogs.vbcity.com Read More...
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One of the nice things about the Updater Application Block is that it was written to be quite extensible... I saw a post today where SamSantiago mentioned he had created a custom class to delete all those old versions on your machine whenever you do an Read More...
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Soma (whose name you may or may not recognize) is in a position to know a lot about the future of Visual Basic (in his own words, from his intro post... "My name is Somasegar and I run the Developer Division at Microsoft." ), so when he decides to post Read More...
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I'm sure I'll be one of many commenting on this, but the recent updates to .Text on this site are a wonderful improvement. For the past while I had been unable to really sift out the good comments from the bad, so real (non-spam) comments to the VB or Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted my "Quick Poll" Coding 4 Fun column in its unedited form... was that useful? If it was, I can continue to do that with my articles ... basically posting my version of them up in advance onto www.duncanmackenzie.net and then Read More...
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Blurb copied using the cool "Blog This" link on the ondotnet pages :) Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 by Jesse Liberty -- For a couple of years now, Jesse Liberty been touting the Microsoft endorsed-sentiment that it really doesn't matter Read More...
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/community I added a little blurb at the top asking folks to send in any ideas they have for this page, please use it... I try to scan the community sites regularly but I'm certainly missing a lot of stuff. If you see something Read More...
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Add a Quick Poll to Your Web Site Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a "Quick Poll" using Visual Basic and ASP.NET. Recent discussions have motivated me to add some 'anti-repeat-voting' code to this sample... I've finished up most Read More...
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I was just talking with J.D. Meier ( from PAG ) about the Improving Application Security book and he pointed out a great page to me... the " Solutions At A Glance " list... this page lists a ton of very frequently asked questions around .NET security Read More...
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I noticed yesterday that my poll wasn't showing the question on the top of the list of choices, or the list of results. Viewing the source made it pretty obvious the <asp:label> was rendering, but that it was empty. Checking my code everything seemed Read More...
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I blame google. ( 250 + comments so far, not counting the ones I've had to remove ) Read More...
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