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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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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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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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 blame google. ( 250 + comments so far, not counting the ones I've had to remove ) Read More...
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I've put the draft of my next Coding 4 Fun column ('Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a "Quick Poll" using Visual Basic and ASP.NET.') up onto my personal site, click here to check it out. Read More...
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I've been thinking about books and the MSDN developer centers for some time... I've been wondering what we should do in terms of highlighting books on the MSDN site. Do you want reviews ? Top x Books by topic area (Beginning VB.NET, Data Access, Windows Read More...
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I'm running a poll on http://www.duncanmackenzie.net to see what topics I should write about next in my Coding 4 Fun column ... There are 7 choices in total, but 3 are getting the lion's share of the votes... Game Dev (a 'battleship' networked game, etc..) Read More...
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a Code Project link, via Darth Pedro's blog ... .NET: Printer Margin Bounds in .NET There's a very good Code Project article by Philippe Leybaert on getting the appropriate printer margin bounds so that what you print from you WinForms application will Read More...
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VB Power Pack Update It’s been a little over a month since we shipped the Power Pack. As of this morning, the controls have been downloaded 17,401 times!! And there are more than 100 members of the Power Pack Workspace ( link ). Nathan Blecharczyk, Read More...
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In an earlier post , I mentioned that I use a trigger to update a "DateCreated" field in one of my tables... and various people commented on this... asking "why not pass in a value in your Insert?" or "why not use a default value?" Since I feel that replying Read More...
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One of the big reasons I redesigned the poll component , was so that I could track votes over time... I did this by adding a 'dateVoted' column to my vote table, and then using an “On Insert” trigger to set that column to the current date/time.... Read More...
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Building Tools Using the Visual Studio Automation Model In this episode, Craig Skibo uses the Visual Studio .NET 2003 automation model to build a tool window hosted within Visual Studio that allows you to read blog postings. Read More...
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