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We Need to Talk (Matt Gertz)
25 June 09 11:41 AM
By now, many of you will have downloaded the recent beta that we posted to the net, and (hopefully) are getting excited about the features that we’ve been developing. Recently, Beth Massi interviewed me about some of the work that I’ve been doing as a Read More...
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How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line (Beth Massi, Matt Gertz)
22 May 09 12:51 PM
Ever wonder how we build Visual Studio and the .NET Framework? I mean literally. You know, the build process that spits out a product at the other end?  Well I sure did and it's not just hitting F5 people ;-). In this interview I sit down with Matt 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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How Do We Learn to Be Good Programmers? (Matt Gertz)
05 May 09 04:20 PM
I’ve always enjoyed writing. Putting pen to paper (or, these days, fingers to keyboard) is something that brings a lot of joy into my life, even more than music or any other hobby that I have. I’ve been writing stories since earlier than I can remember, 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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Community Interview with Matt Gertz (Beth Massi)
17 October 08 09:00 AM
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole , this time with Matt Gertz. Matt still posts frequently on the VB Team blog even though he's changed roles (look at how big his name still is in our tag cloud on 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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Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)
17 June 08 07:30 AM
In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA. In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels. (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be Read More...
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Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)
16 June 08 10:21 PM
As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State? On the one hand, biology was something I’d Read More...
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