robgruen's WebLog

The Charlotte , NC Microsoft site was closed on both Thursday and Friday due to overwhelming amounts snowfall (12.6 inches were recorded at the CLT airport, 3 rd highest recorded snowfall in a 24 hour period for CLT). I built a 6ft tall snowman with the Read More...

The Code Advisor is an add-in for the VB6 IDE that analyzes VB6 source and identifies code areas where changes are necessary for migrating to VB.NET. The utility is extremely handy and works very well in conjunction with the Upgrade Wizard that ships Read More...

Have you ever used the Win+D (Show/Hide Desktop) or Win+M (Minimize All) shortcut keys? Have you ever tried to recreate the shortcuts on your quicklaunch bar? Not the easiest thing in the world to find information on. There's one knowledge base article Read More...

I was working with a customer the other day and came accross an interesting issue: Controls on a form within the Windows Form Designer appeared locked and could not be moved or edited within the form designer. However, we were still able to modify properties Read More...