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April 2006 - Posts

Friday, April 28, 2006 2:17 PM

What's wrong with MSDN documentation? (and what's right?)

A large part of my job at Microsoft is to provide developers with the knowledge they need to make use of the IIS 7.0 SDK. While the information about IIS 7.0 is not out yet for review, there are plenty of docs provided in other areas, such as the .NET
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:40 PM

Threading issue with VB.NET Default Instances

Here is an issue that showed up for one of our customers in the Microsoft forums for Visual Basic .NET. It is NOT the typical ”cross-threaded UI update” issue that you might think. No, this one, IMO, is slightly harder to catch since no exception is thrown
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:25 AM

Free Microsoft Press Book: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Microsoft has a free book available for download for anyone who wants it. Download the whole book, or download it chapter-by-chapter (8 in all). Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/learning/introtovb2005/
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:25 AM

Debugging Resources

It is my opinion that the difference between good developers and outstanding ones are the way that they debug applications. As such, I wanted to point you to some great debugging resources to get you well on your way to standing with the outstanding developers.
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Monday, April 03, 2006 4:33 PM

202 VB.NET Samples

I just wanted to bring some attention to a resource that I think is extremely valuable for VB developers (and really, any .NET developer using any other language for that matter). MSDN has a website with 101 Code Samples for VB.NET 2005 . There is also
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Sunday, April 02, 2006 1:04 PM

XBOX 360

On my way home from work Friday, I stopped by a local game store had a few 360 consoles in stock. This just a short time after it was announced that shipments would be stepping up for the console. So, I bought myself a premium console and headed over
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