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There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Euchre! (Matt Gertz)
18 December 09 06:26 AM
“Oh, no!” I hear you cry, “not another blog about Euchre!” Well, I do like the game, to be sure. But, more importantly, the Euchre scenario enables me to try out any new technologies on a reasonably complex problem (using Visual Basic, of course). It’s Read More...
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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 2 (Matt Gertz)
07 November 09 08:00 AM
In this post, I’ll continue on with coding the new playlist shuffler. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, I highly recommend it so that this post will make more sense. J Code for the controls (continued) The Title TextBox When the title changes, we’ll want Read More...
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Linking Zune media items with LinQ, Part 1 (Matt Gertz)
06 November 09 02:17 PM
Way back in October 2007, I wrote up a few posts ( here and here ) on my experiments with the Windows Media Player object model. The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to “shuffle,” WMP would break up songs that should always Read More...
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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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Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)
27 December 08 07:00 AM
Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa. She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her. However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me. (For those Read More...
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M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)
09 December 08 01:26 PM
M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz) I have a slight problem with my cell phone. It’s a smartphone; I love it, I use it all the time, and I don’t what I’d do without it, but I’ve been pretty aggravated with its support of Bluetooth. It will fail to pair with 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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