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Getting Loopy (Matt Gertz)
07 October 09 02:50 PM

In my last post, I talked about the hidden costs that can occur whenever you call out to methods, particularly in loops. In looking at my examples, reader KG2V commented that another thing that folks need to be aware of is avoiding the assumption that Read More...

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Hidden Costs (Matt Gertz)
06 October 09 12:54 PM

(Note: there was a grievous error in this post based on a bad assumption on my art regarding VB. Not feeling the need to hide my ignorance :-), I have instead made a number of edits in this post to bring it back to some semblance of reality.) One thing Read More...

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It’s a Small World, After All, part 2 – VB, C#, and GPS (Matt Gertz)
05 August 09 12:30 PM

In my previous post, we fixed up a C# GPS library to provide more support, and wrote all of the UI for a VB GPS application, all based on (but modified from) a Mobile GPS sample in the Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK. In this post, we’ll finish up the app by enabling Read More...

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It’s a Small World, After All, part 1 – VB, C#, and GPS (Matt Gertz)
04 August 09 02:34 PM

The title of this blog post has sort of a triple meaning for me. First of all, I just got back from a long (and wonderful!) cruise in the Caribbean, followed by a stop at Disney World. And of course, if you go to Disney World with kids, it’s the law that Read More...

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Phoning Home, revisited (Matt Gertz)
21 May 09 10:43 AM

In my post “ M. G. Phone Home ,” I discussed how to write a simple phone application for Windows Mobile, using Visual Basic, which accesses the Bluetooth service. What I didn’t discuss was how to deploy it to the phone via CAB. Since I purchased a new Read More...

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Keep the Customer Satisfied (Matt Gertz)
13 April 09 08:21 PM

As I’ve written elsewhere, the toughest critics for any work you do can always be found in your own family. Pleased at the immense work that I’d done in scanning in and tagging all of my photos and media (as noted in this post ) , and with my ego sufficiently Read More...

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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
01 March 09 10:00 AM

In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files. In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat : As I mentioned in the first post, I’m Read More...

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Veni, MIDI, Vici: Generating a simple MIDI file using VB, part 1 (Matt Gertz)
27 February 09 10:01 AM

As I’ve alluded to in previous blogs, music has always been a big part of my life, particularly performance music. I’ve been a clarinet and saxophone player for many years, am an avid singer, and (with the help of friends) I’ve done my best to teach myself Read More...

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An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)
23 January 09 06:30 PM

I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)! I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the Read More...

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Shell Games (Matt Gertz)
31 October 08 02:22 PM

I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship. I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have Read More...

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Building a Zune Playlist (Matt Gertz)
19 September 08 11:11 PM

Well, that was… intense. You may have noticed the lack of articles coming from my direction. I have been so buried in work, and so far behind, that when I look forwards all I see is backwards. I work, I drive home, I work some more, and it all seems to Read More...

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Attachment(s):VBJukebox.zip

Euchre Revisited: Fixing bugs and service releases (Matt Gertz)
11 December 07 04:42 PM

It’s really embarrassing when a bug gets out the door in a product. In particular, it’s hard for me to just sit and take it (however well deserved the criticism is) when a Microsoft product gets nailed in the press for a bad error. It’s much worse when Read More...

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One is the Loneliest Number (Matt Gertz)
13 November 07 10:09 AM

(This post assumes that you’ve read my previous post on Windows Media at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/10/30/let-the-music-play-matt-gertz.aspx – I will be modifying that code in this post.) After posting my media player blog sample a couple Read More...

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Let the Music Play! (Matt Gertz)
30 October 07 12:05 PM

Oh, boy. Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately, but I’ve transitioned to a new job within Visual Studio and have been getting my sea legs there. One of the job tasks is getting Visual Studio 2008 out to you folks, and while I’ve always been involved Read More...

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Using the PrintForm component in Visual Basic (Matt Gertz)
12 July 07 01:41 PM

(This is the fourth and final part of the Paint-by-Numbers series) Late last year, some clever guys on our Visual Basic team released the PrintForm component on the web. The idea behind the PrintForm component was to make printing and previewing your Read More...

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