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  • Laziness .NET -- the Professional Edition

    Friday, August 29, 2003
    Back in June I published a column showing you how to make a simple Pocket PC remote for Windows Media player. I didn't know it at the time, but some of my readers have sent in links to a professional version of the same idea. Built using the .NET Framework 1.1 and C#, Zerama looks amazing... everything I wanted in mine, but built and supported by someone else (I love to code, but I'm happy to have someone else do it for me too!). Check it out, pull down the demo from here and then you can buy the full [read more...]
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  • New "Coding 4 Fun" article is up...

    Wednesday, August 20, 2003
    Should be up and live already so here is the URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun08222003.asp If you diff this article with the pieces from my blog... you will see the work of Henry Borys, the excellent editor of these columns (and a ton of other MSDN material)... the changes are generally small, but critical. One example.... he didn't like my name (Keeping Work Fun) so we now have Developing Priorities: Fun First [read more...]
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  • Updating the Updater

    Tuesday, August 12, 2003
    I've been using the Application Updater Block, as you may have gathered from some of my previous posts, and I like it a lot... but I've been wanting to add a few features to it. Well, I have it all planned out in my head, but I haven't gotten around to it, so I thought I would at least throw out my feature ideas and see what people say about them... I would like to add: The ability to include a mandatory flag when creating the manifest file for a new version/update. Client applications could see that flag and adjust [read more...]
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  • And now for the last...

    Tuesday, August 12, 2003
    With this final bit of text, this is the whole article... before any of your comments... and before my wonderful editor (Henry Borys) has attacked it. If you were to take the content from these blog entries and diff it with the published article... you'll see the amazing impact that a good editor can have on your writing. Storing and Retrieving the Feed ListsOnce I had the RSS feeds displaying, and I had tested the system with enough sample data (translation: it worked against my blog's feed) to ensure it was working correctly, it was time to move onto creating [read more...]
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  • Finally got back to the article

    Monday, August 11, 2003
    Thanks to everyone who emailed me and offered to help... but the problem was time, not technical... despite my joke about working on the cool stuff first, a ton of high-priority stuff has made me weeks late on my article! Although I did hit some snags with odd unsorted feeds (MSDN's!), I managed to get everything working the way I wanted. I'm still a little unhappy with the system because I don't strip out potentially bad tags from any HTML content included in the RSS (as per http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/06/12/how_to_consume_rss_safely) , but it has certainly progressed far enough in code for me [read more...]
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