Comments - Duncan Mackenzie .NET

RE: First post on the new site...

Scott Galloway — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:33:00 GMT

Welcome to the world of self hosting! I've been doing this for quite a while now, .TEXT really is fun to mess around with.

RE: Ran into my first blog hosting bug... that was fast...

Scott Allen — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:21:00 GMT

When I found this bug I wondered how in the world it was happening to my site, which gets 3 or 4 orders of magnitude less traffic then blogs.msdn.com.

Then it finally hit me.

On the main page of the site I pull the RSS feed of my ".net news" blog and display the items in a table. The RSS feed includes the aggbug image link to track aggregator hits. When http://asp.net would link to an article on OdeToCode, quite a number of people rush in and hit the main page, and each page hit triggers 5 aggbug entries. This is where the bug lived - in counting up the aggregator hits from the aggbug image. I have since stripped the aggbug image tag from the feed before displaying it on the main page and can now enable queued stats again.

RE: The email I get...

Ernesto — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:21:00 GMT

Hi.

How do i make a form sizable for any monitor resolution (dpi) because i develop in a monitor whith 1280 x 1024 pixels but in other lower resolution my forms don't fit.
could you help me?

RE: The email I get...

Essential — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:30:00 GMT

This is a pretty cool little code snippet, but is it possible that this would be slow during data entry? It seemed to be very fast when I tested it, but going out to the _TextChanged event every time a key is pressed just seems to me kind of redundant. Anyways, just wondering if I should be worried about the speed at all.

Thanks!

Essential

RE: Ran into my first blog hosting bug... that was fast...

Elaine — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:06:00 GMT

Hi i was wondering if you could help me.. I am setting up a Vb 6.0 front end to a MS Access Database - I know its something to do with odbc and ole's but my time frame is limited and i need to connect it asap so i can get on with manipulating the database from the front end. I dont suppose any of you know off hand how to do this?

RE: The email I get...

Harsh Kumar Garg — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:56:00 GMT

How can i change the background and Fore color of Status bar in VB 6.0

RE: The email I get...

gerald — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:15:00 GMT

hi...........
u'r really smart...
can u give a code that function as changing image everytime i click a command button....

thanksssssss.....

RE: First post on the new site...

Omer van Kloeten — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:12:00 GMT

Congratulations on the move.

Would you care to share some of the source code for that application?

RE: First post on the new site...

Dave Burke — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:51:00 GMT

Duncan, Congrats on the move. Looks good! I'd love to follow your lead and having the source for the blog contents copy app would be sweeeeeeet! Thanks!

RE: The email I get...

Hilda J. Espinoza — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:03:00 GMT

I have a simple question. Is there a known problem with the DataReport1.PrintReport? It seems to hang my computer everytime I run it. I have place my application on other systems and on some of them it seems to work just fine, but when I check the task manager, even when I exit the application my program is still listed there. I have close and set to nothing all the objects that I use and unload all forms. Any ideas???

RE: The email I get...

Prashant Thorat — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:33:00 GMT

Hi Techies,

Have an Query.

Please let me know If any one have a solution for this.
I have a Project which consists of 10 forms and 3 data reports and Access Database.
I created an exe and tried to run it on a WIN XP system. It executes fine but when I try to access the Data Report. It gives me an error and the Program terminate. That might be because the required ocx & dll files may be missing.
One of the solution is to create an setup of the project. But I want to use just the exe.
Please could any body suggest how should I proceed with this. What are the required file, and where should they be stored. Just wanted to run the exe and also the data reports within it.
Some please tell me how can it be done.

Thanks and Regards
Prashant

RE: The email I get...

susan — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:24:00 GMT

How can I write vb.net code to insert data into an access db table if the data
is new, and yet just ignore it if it already exists in the table?
Do I use a Try,Catch,Finally block? What would I check to catch the duplicates
and ignore them?
Any help would be appreciated.

RE: The email I get...

gerald Stun — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:02:00 GMT

Low.... peps.......

i need help.........
someone please tell on how to code a image that when i click a command button the will automatically change....... the name of the command button is NEXT......
tnxs.........

RE: C# 2005 and C# Express Content Up...

Hussein Bagherzadegan — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:34:00 GMT

Plz Send Some Article Free Article For Me

with Best Regard Hussein Bagherzadegan

RE: Ok... so suddenly Avalon seems relevant to me :)

Jimbo — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:31:00 GMT

Anything that gives us better technology sooner is good news. However, we developers are struggling every day with today's technology. Something even one year away seems like a long time.

The more help we can get today, the better.

Thanks for getting us that help.

RE: Ok... so suddenly Avalon seems relevant to me :)

Judah Gabriel — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:05:00 GMT

Woooo this is great news! I was thinking before that using these technologies wouldn't be feasible until Longhorn was widely adopted years after its release (something like 2009-10) but now that they'll be available for existing XP users, this will definitely influence my decision to start using these technologies when they become available.

RE: Ok... this is very cool, hosting your own instance of VS's code editor?

MartinJ — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:53:00 GMT

Wow, it would've been nice if the SQL Reporting team had used this idea. All those calculated fields that you get to enter using the simple textbox, not knowing about syntax errors until you decide to preview, no Intellisense or code completion, would've been a breeze to help our people that don't write code too often (usually just SQL queries).

Ah well, live and learn.

-Martin

RE: Seems installing the new Community Server :: Forums isn't as 'isolated' as its documentation claims...

Jason Alexander — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:20:00 GMT

Ouch! Apologies Duncan!

We'll be sure this issue is addressed in our next release. Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for the clobbered table.

Take care,
-Jason

RE: Seems installing the new Community Server :: Forums isn't as 'isolated' as its documentation claims...

Rob Howard — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:25:00 GMT

Oh man, sorry about that. The Vote table is a hold-over from the Vote Control that we use that was originally released as a stand alone -- we'll get this fixed.

RE: Seems installing the new Community Server :: Forums isn't as 'isolated' as its documentation claims...

Matt Hawley — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 05:02:00 GMT

There are also some other objects without the forums prefix ... I found this out while moving my webhosts earlier this week. Im actually really talking about the function HasReadPost.

RE: I'm a little behind on my reading...

Charl — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 01:24:00 GMT

You don't say! :-)

RE: The Updater Application Block... various additions...

Viet Duong — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:31:00 GMT

Hi Duncan,

Have you manage to post the code? If so where can I download from?

Best Regards,

Viet

RE: Upcoming C# Chat... September 23, 2004

Apolon — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 23:38:00 GMT

1PM PST is 4am in the morning for me.
Any chance of two sessions? One late in your work day, one early in your work day to get more of a timezone spread?

RE: is it just me, or does "View Source" sometimes seem wrong?

Shane Kretky — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:34:00 GMT

formatting is a bit of an ass on a small screen

RE: First post on the new site...

Sonu Kapoor — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:37:00 GMT

Will you provide the tools for others too, so that they can do the same?

RE: 14 part "Soup-to-Nuts" webcasts on Windows Forms...

ali roumie — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:44:00 GMT

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Wayne Taylor — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:58:00 GMT

Hi

Great article. Really informative and simply.... What about having a table of available command line arguments with descriptions and examples when and why you would use each og them, or are there too many?

Cheers.

RE: My experience with GameFly...

john — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:04:00 GMT

Netflix came in really ahndy this week while I am under water here in Alabama.
Instead of rushing back my movies, they will sit in my living room untill I am ready to mail them back. I would recommend Netflix to anyone who has not tried it.

RE: My experience with GameFly...

john — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:05:00 GMT

Netflix came in really handy this week while I am under water here in Alabama.
Instead of rushing back my movies, they will sit in my living room untill I am ready to mail them back. I would recommend Netflix to anyone who has not tried it.

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Shannon J Hager — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:34:00 GMT

Funny, yesterday I did a little work on an Access 2002 project I haven't seen in over a year. "Rusty" is right, I don't do much VB.NET at all, I'm 90% C# so VBA is a major change.

I love the ease with which you can create a project and then add all the functionality in VBA and take a fraction of the time it would have taken writing it "from scratch". Those Access apps definitely great when you need something small and fast. I'm not sure how much of those features would be good enough for "real world" VB.NET/C# work (i.e. places where you don't use wsiwyg features like dragging a table onto a form).

I do wish the Access reporting features were available by default in VS.NET, I straight up refuse to use Crystal unless the client demands it.

RE: My experience with GameFly...

Michael Giagnocavo — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 03:04:00 GMT

You aren't using the service correctly :). Why would you keep the DVDs until you watch them, lowering your DVDs-per-month? Just rip (and burn if you like) 'em all as they come in. Then watch them at your convenience, without feeling like you're not getting enough value...

RE: Amazon Web Services 4.0 ... what are you using them for?

Scott — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:08:00 GMT

I still need to clean it up some more, but have some code which takes your recently played list from ITunes, runs it against the Amazon web services, then displays the list of albums with their "buy" link.

-Scott

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Markus Jerneborg — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:59:00 GMT

Reporting is an area where i have found the built-in support in VS inferior to Access (a ten-year-old or so end user MS Office application!). I find this remarkable, as I think most developers working with VS professionally need a good reporting tool.

So, in short, I agree with the previous post.

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Josh — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:36:00 GMT

I'll echo the overall coolness of reporting in Access. It is so well integrated that it almost makes it too easy. There are some products that get you nearly to that point in VS.Net, but none have quite made it.

RE: Amazon Web Services 4.0 ... what are you using them for?

Jeff Lewis — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT

One of my clients is an author - http://ownerbuilderbook.com/ - don't look at the website, I just do backend work... I use AWS to help him keep track of the sales rank of competitors.

He didn't like junglescan.com...

RE: Good Guys and Bad Guys

mikeb — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:32:00 GMT

"Ben's Game"

I haven't actually seen the game in action - I just heard about it in news stories:

http://www.makewish.org/site/pp.asp?c=bdJLITMAE&b=81924

RE: Good Guys and Bad Guys

Rickard — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:59:00 GMT

In the 80's there was a French cartoon series shown on Swedish television that depicted this pretty well.

I can only find it on the French Amazon site though, - http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059R7P/ref=pd_qpt_d_2/171-8491856-1039434 -.

Episode 3 is the one you want for your son.

Some images from this series can be found here, - http://pagesperso.laposte.net/ieuf/galevie/index.php3?debut=0 -

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Shane Kretky — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:06:00 GMT

reporting and subforms in access kick butt

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Ray — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:55:00 GMT

Reporting...Reporting...Reporting...
We just dumped Crystal.NET because it should have been called Crystal.Suck
We'r using the SQL reporting services....but I miss Access...it's been 5 years now....

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Ben — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:31:00 GMT

Can we plez have a image of a chief with out armor

RE: Like Code? Like FxCop? Then you should read David Kean's blog...

David M. Kean — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:18:00 GMT

Duncan,

Thanks for the plug, I have decided to move my blog to my own hosted domain. The new link for my site is:

http://davidkean.net

RE: Visual Basic Resource Kit

jaiminrathod — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:54:00 GMT

i am software developer

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Mike — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:12:00 GMT

I agree with Byrd. There should be some sort of add-in that allows you to create databases in vb with almost the same ease as Access. I use Access exclusively because I do not have the time to create databases from scratch in vb and have not used vb6 enough to be comfortable with it. Most enterprise solutions involve some form of database programming. It would be very cool if this was made as easy as Access. I know I would use VB6 all the time if this was the case

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

JAckie Goldstein — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:55:00 GMT

I too am in the midst of building a "quick & Dirty" system for a local community fund-raising event. For soemthing like that, especially where reports are key, Access is the best choice. At least I get to use Access 2003 :-)

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Tilman — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:00:00 GMT

Access is the best example when it comes to data centric RAD. In no other environment you can setup a prototype of a data application as fast with the possibility to enhance it afterwards.
Building forms, reports and queries with the wizards are great.
So as often as I have to deal with data, Access is the first joice.

But: I miss the excellent Intellisense from VS.NET, the help system is a pain in the neck and the object model is weired.

RE: Amazon Web Services 4.0 ... what are you using them for?

Dave Burke — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:11:00 GMT

Jeff, you warned us not to look at the ownerbuilderbook.com site. Geez, what a butt-ugly site.

As for AWS, I love hearing what you guys are doing with it. Maybe someday a lightbulb will go off in my own mind on applications for it.

RE: Coffee with Serge

Maxim V. Karpov — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:42:00 GMT

Good that you pointed out, Now I am subscribed to him

Thanks, Maxim
[www.ipattern.com do you?]

RE: Updated C# Sneak Preview is (mostly) online...

Josh — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:48:00 GMT

I like what I see so far! I am looking forward to the class designer... that should be pretty sweet.

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Elijah — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:48:00 GMT

Reporting.... I hope someone working on VB reads this.... we all seem to want better reporting. Take the reporting engine from access and drop it into vb please (yea, its harder than that, but you guys pulled off creating microsoft.net from scratch so come on ;) )

Crystal.Net was a good idea. Put in a huge reporting engine so you can reference it in a .net project. What they screwed up was deployment (asp.net is the worst for this). Its easy to get something working on a test box... as soon as it isn't local anymore there are file reference problems, version conflicts, blah blah blah. Passing a dataset to a report... why should this be so hard?

In short I wish you could take crystal and put it in an activex control instead of this goofy merge module spagetti file reference clown act that it uses now. Speaking of activex... why god why did they take it away... one .ocx file and your dreams come true. Why should my reporting engine be literally 30 times the size (for winforms) of the application using it? Bloat.

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Victor Campos — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:30:00 GMT

Visual FoxPro

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

codenut@winextra.com — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:12:00 GMT

VistaDB .NET - http://www.vistadb.com

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Anthony Carrabino — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:38:00 GMT

Hi, we make VistaDB for .NET -- just released 2.0 today.

Hopefully we'll get some of the Jet/Access users to take a close look:
http://www.vistadb.net

And let me add to the VBCITY license plate with ours:
http://www.vistadb.net/images/vistadb_plate_lg.jpg

Anthony Carrabino

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Juan José Rodríguez — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:37:00 GMT

Informix from IBM

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Alex Kazovic — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:52:00 GMT

Along with everyone else, reporting is so much easier in Access.

But besides that, I miss connected data/datasets. The norm now with ADO.Net is the disconnected mode. I know that I can achieve the same effect myself by writing code, but there are times when I need an app that only services a few users (so scalability is irrelevant) and I don’t want to spend the time writing the extra code.

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

daniel — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 04:42:00 GMT

i spent the day creating a dbase inaccess onlythat when i called it from vb 6.0 it give me an error of " un unrecognizable db format " any help man?
my
\\ email is

gillkenya @yahoo.com

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Gary Andrews — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:17:00 GMT

VistaDB

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Jeevan James — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:27:00 GMT

Firebird

http://www.firebirdsql.org/

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Jim Brown — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 17:07:00 GMT

Pervasive.SQL

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Dave F. — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:24:00 GMT

Reporting is great in Access but one of the little things I miss is a multi column ComboBox. I've always had to purchase a 3rd party tool to get this in VB. Access just hands it to you. I was suprised when I started using VB that you could only get one column in the standard ComboBox. I had hoped that a multi column CB would have been added to .net. Oh well! :-|

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Ali — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 05:54:00 GMT

My webhost has only mySQL :(

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

dc — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:12:00 GMT

I'm using PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/

RE: I've been working on a new RSS generation system for MSDN for the past little while

Luc Cluitmans — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:37:00 GMT

One quick note: the stylesheet seems to be working correctly in IE only. FireFox recognizes the stylesheet, but the result doesn't seem to be HTML at all, but one large line of text. I am not into stylesheeting enough to figure out what is going wrong, but it looks like some mime-type or namespace issue to me. If I download the feed and the stylesheet separately, and apply the stylesheet manually, the resulting html file displays just fine, so it seems to be an issue with applying the stylesheet.

RE: I've been working on a new RSS generation system for MSDN for the past little while

Luc Cluitmans — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:01:00 GMT

Update: Yep, it works fine now in FireFox, thanks!

I wish more RSS feeds would attach a stylesheet... Thanks for setting a good example.

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Brandon M. Stone — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:48:00 GMT

iAnywhere's Adaptive Server Anywhere. iAnyWhere is owned by Sybase.

RE: I've been working on a new RSS generation system for MSDN for the past little while

Kent Tegels — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT

An OPML rolling all of these up would just rule...

RE: I've been working on a new RSS generation system for MSDN for the past little while

andrew brodie — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:11:00 GMT

why can't you make halo2 no ps2 the reasonis i go over to my frends place so i can play halo1 so can you ask sony to put out halo2 out please thank you.

RE: Getting the .NET Framework Installed as part of your application's setup

Jimbo — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:59:00 GMT

Duncan,

This is good information. Program deployment seems to be a big black hole to me, and, I am sure, other programmers. There is written documentation on it, but it can be difficult to follow without pictures of the screens. "VB at the movies" had some good examples of deployment, but it would be good to have more examples.

For example:
- How to run a program after it is installed?
- The User Interface has dialog boxes, like Checkboxes. How does one get the input from these forms?

Keep up the good work.

Thanks

RE: Getting the .NET Framework Installed as part of your application's setup

Stephen Toub — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:56:00 GMT

Sean Draine has a good article on the 2005 bootstrapper in his recent MSDN Magazine article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/Bootstrapper/default.aspx

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Goggi — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:48:00 GMT

Informix from IBM

RE: MVPs... we love 'em!

sree — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:21:00 GMT

Hi ! I want to know how to edit a video file in VB.NET that parses stored video files between a timeline. ie.,a
video file may play upto 10 min..and it should be able to extract the last 5 min of the stored video.and also should also be able to compress the video into divx format and the resolution should also be customizable.If ur Free or willing to suggest .,plz Give Some ur valuable suggetions and Information..on this task or if u dont have time Give Related Urls.Plz.or tell any third party component sdk evaluation version..Plz..

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Vinay Bhushan — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:53:00 GMT

Many
SQL-Server
iAnywhere
Oracle

RE: Running a new poll on databases...

Jimbo — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:28:00 GMT

U2 from IBM (Unidata and Universe)

RE: I've been working on a new RSS generation system for MSDN for the past little while

Rob Sutherland — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:54:00 GMT

News feed doesn't display correctly in Thunderbird. Thunderbird reads the post fine, and displays the basic information (subject, author, date) but when selected doesn't display the summary/description and link information - just a blank window. Visual C# seems to be the only MS feet that does this (of the one i look at regurlarly: MSDN: ASP.NET, MSDN: Visual C#, MSDN Just posted, ...)

RE: DateTimePicker and DBNull

Baraholka — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:26:00 GMT

I amended your source to remove the necessity to use the "Checked" property of the 'Picker.
This means that you are not compelled to use the checkbox in the 'Picker if you don't want to.
Also a Null Date now displays blank text in the picker instead of a greyed out date.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,

Baraholka

'Original Author: Duncan MacKenzie
'Original Source: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/a.aspx?u=http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2003/02/28/3242.aspx
'Modifications
'Date Who Description
'--------------------------------
'01-OCT-2004 CKS Modified original source
' 1. No longer uses Checked property. This means ShowCheckBox property does not have to be set for successful use
' 2. Null date shows blank text instead of greyed out date. This utilises the technique shown by
' Pham Minh Tri http://www.thecodeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/Nullable_DateTimePicker.asp
Option Explicit On

Imports System
Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class DBDateTimePicker
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePicker

'Flag: tells us if Picker currently showing null value or not
Private bIsNull As Boolean = False
'Flag: Show null date in Picker
Private bReturnNull As Boolean = False
'Allows swapping between Custom format and original format of Picker
Private oldFormat As DateTimePickerFormat

#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()

'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

End Sub

'UserControl overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub

'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
components = New System.ComponentModel.Container
End Sub

#End Region

Private Sub SetDBValue(ByVal Value As Object)
If IsDBNull(Value) Then
Me.bReturnNull = True
'Show null date as space.
'Check if Picker currently showing a Null Date
If bIsNull = False Then
Me.oldFormat = Me.Format
Me.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom
Me.CustomFormat = " "
bIsNull = True
End If
Else
Me.bReturnNull = False
MyBase.Value = Convert.ToDateTime(Value)
'Date is not null. Restore original date Format
If bIsNull Then
Me.Format = Me.oldFormat
Me.CustomFormat = Nothing
bIsNull = False
End If
End If
End Sub

<Bindable(True), Browsable(True)> _
Public Shadows Property DBValue() As Object
Get
If bReturnNull Then
Return DBNull.Value
Else
Return MyBase.Value
End If
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As Object)
Me.SetDBValue(Value)
End Set
End Property

Private Sub DBDateTimePicker_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.ValueChanged
'Immediately permit display of changed date
Me.SetDBValue(Value)
End Sub
End Class

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Brian — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:23:00 GMT

Good quick lesson: Connecting to a database. Article with simple connection and retrieval from an access database maybe with some extra information about SQL, Oracle possibilities as well.

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Garry Bargsley — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:05:00 GMT

I aggree. Something that will connect to a database. Maybe do some update and/or delete queries and read and write to a database.

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Vic Berggren — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:19:00 GMT

how about... "Expert String Parsing with Regular Expressions".

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Jimbo — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:34:00 GMT

Super idea - here is a suggestion:

Do a screen capture and save it as a bmp or jpeg file. (In the past this could only be done with the use of API calls)

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Ivandro (Guaíba) — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:18:00 GMT

Do many articles to display how to developer 3-tiers, using patterns, displaing case with "one-to-many" , with transactions

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Bob — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 08:11:00 GMT

I need some Visual Basic code to add a good RSS feed reader to a mini-browser I had written in VB. Can you tell me where I might find it?

Bob Hirst
bobhirst at ucqwik.com

RE: MVPs... we love 'em!

Andrew Sutton aka Shandy — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:17:00 GMT

Duncan,
great idea. It would be cool to see my picture on he MS VB Home Page or maybe not looking at the picture ;-) Anyway it reminded me to upload my picture and update my MVP profile. The VB home page is also coming along nicely. There is enough items of interest on it now to ensure I makea daily visit.

Shandy, Microsoft VB MVP, vbCity Leader

RE: Fable is addicting...

Sean Chase — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:35:00 GMT

I just bought an XBOX last night and my wife bought Fable. She's playing all last night and has been on it all day this morning. Guess it's payback for the many hours I wasted playing Quake II deathmatches online. :-)

RE: Home Storage options

Josh — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:29:00 GMT

I'm in the same boat, though not quite to the degree that Charlie is. I have my Media Center and it has a 200 GB hard drive in it now. It has a good amount of digital photos and MP3s, probably about 140 GB total there. The most important stuff, namely the pictures, are backed up. Still, it would take forever to rip all of my CDs again... and that is not a job I would want to do over anyway. I have a raid 1 setup in my desktop with 2 200 GB drives, but that goes surprisingly fast. I suppose I will have to look at some sort of a NAS solution one of these days... or maybe just build another desktop with a raid 5 setup and a ton of drives.

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Wayne Taylor — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:14:00 GMT

How about an article regarding calling Windows API's, for example, I would like to write some sleep friendly code, let me explain.

I tend to leave my system at home on, my study is next to our bedroom, when I'm finished coding (well, I try) for the evening I tend to forget to mute the sound or turn the speakers off. Every now and then someone from the states sends me a message via Messenger or I get an e-mail, thus thoose nice little notifcation sounds wake me and my partner up in the middle of the night.

I have tried (well a little) witting this code but it would be great to have article regarding calling Win API's.....

RE: Looking for ideas for articles on "Getting Stuff Done"

Jimbo — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:57:00 GMT

How about creating a program to maintain "code snippets"? I did not see one built in to VS 2005.

Thanks

RE: Home Storage options

Maxim V. Karpov — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:20:00 GMT

That is always an issue. How do you store your digital data. Recently, I lost two harddrives, I did backup most of my stuff, but I did not do it on regular basis. I know most home users have no clue about backup strategies. If somebody will come up with a good software package that does solid backup of the application data, he will make $$$. I am not talking about the entire drive backup, but rather just data for the applications.

my two cents, Maxim

[www.ipattern.com do you?]

RE: Fable is addicting...

Tim S. — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:27:00 GMT

The Dirty Disk Error is something that occurs on early version of Xbox. The best way I found to resolve it is to buy a new Xbox, which I did. You could replace the drive, but why bother?

RE: Getting the .NET Framework Installed as part of your application's setup

Greg Robinson — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:42:00 GMT

Been using it for 1+ years. Works like a charm.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Ben — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:09:00 GMT

where can we buy the armor now. Nightmarearmor.com is having problems anjd i can't buy any halo armor.

RE: New MSDN RSS feeds are live...

Roger Bonine — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:34:00 GMT

I think that the MSDN feeds are great, but they have one major drawback: there is a lot of unnecessary duplication. For example, I went out and added the Visual Studio 2005 feed and got articles about ADO.NET 2.0 query notifications and ASP.NET 2.0 profiles. Both nice things to know, but not related to Visual Studio. If I want to also subscribe to the ASP.NET feed, I'll get the same ASP.NET article in both of those places (and probably in others as well, such as the SQL feed).

Also, the "Visual Studio" feed also includes articles about VS 2005, so if I subscribe to both, I get those items twice. This sort of thing makes the targeted feeds less useful.

RE: Fable is addicting...

Glenn Dewar — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:57:00 GMT

(Raises Eyebrow)

Some people would say that if there is a flaw in the machine it is -Microsoft- that bears the responsibility to replace it.

I have been tricked into playing Fable. Due to a complicated set of circumstances, I have lost cable for a week. Then a "friend" showed me this wickedly addicting hazardous thing, and now I am hooked.

Ack!

RE: An interesting response to my database usage poll...

Victor Ramathall — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:34:00 GMT

what or which refrence do i need to check mark in VB 6 for connecting a data base in sql server 2000 when creating an instalation package

RE: More on that Halo Armor

arafin — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:02:00 GMT

the website is nightmarearmorstudios.com

RE: UI Patterns and Techniques

Maxim V. Karpov — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:07:00 GMT

Awesome site! Great job on pointing to this site. You also recommend Rockford Lhotka book on Business Object which contain .NET implementations of some of this UI DP such as Business objects with Undo Functionlity.

Maxim
[www.ipattern.com do you?]

RE: Displaying RSS on my own site

Gobbles — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:39:00 GMT

Come people, someone help this guy figure out how to put RSS on his site!

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

evildick — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:56:00 GMT

I used Storm and used her whirlwind attack which forced the latches to close. Took me a while to figure that out too.

I think after I did that I either used Storm's lightning ability to weld them, or it might have been Cyclops' laser blast. It was one of the two, but can't remember which one now.

Just use the whirlwind attack first.

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Duncan Mackenzie — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 23:43:00 GMT

Wonderful advice! And it worked perfectly, thanks!!

RE: Amazon Web Services 4.0 ... what are you using them for?

Allen Harkkleroad — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:02:00 GMT

Hi,
I was googling around in regards to Amazon Web Services 4 (ECS 4). And found your article. I think you may be interested in a product that we are developing. It is called GMP Instant Associate Store (for Amazon Associates). It is written in vb.net and runs on asp.net 1.1, it utilizes AWS 4 and have many cool features. If you are curious please take a look at http://www.gmpias.com. If you do happen to mention our product in an article or news item please do let us know.

Best Regards,
Allen Harkleroad
GMP Services, Inc.

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Stunt — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:21:00 GMT

I didnt have storms ability at the time, but Jean's psychic abilities work in its place

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

Jeff — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:09:00 GMT

I've been wasting three weeks trying to make a VB6 project with Report Designer do what could have been done in two days with Access. The Visual Report Designer just craps out on anything beyond a simple parent child data set (and getting grouping with that is hugely awkward).

What is the $#%$^^ problem with Microsoft? Why can't we have a decent reporting tool in VB? From the posts above it sounds like the previous rumours I heard of Crystal.NOT.YET are true.

RE: You just have to 'love' wikis...

Sean Gephardt — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:52:00 GMT

It's a bummer, but that is the problem with "trust" based web apps, someone always abuses them...

RE: New MSDN RSS feeds are live...

Sean Gephardt — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:54:00 GMT

Hey, You added attributes to the RSS feeds so that people might be able to sift through them programatically.I was going to advocate that....

RE: Justin Rogers with another great blog post series...

Justin Rogers — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:52:00 GMT

Have very little influence into the Terrarium right now as we await for the public source release. As the community waits for this gem of source, it continuously loses it's luster. Some of my Terrarium posts are mainly meant to demonstrate some of the time sensitive features, that given light now will have some small impact on the community, whereas in 6 months or so, nobody will really care.

There is quite a bit of potential in games that people code against to play. I'll be releasing six new web service based games up until the end of November, and I'm help another individual release 4 fully automated games as well. Expect these ten games to provide tons of development time for the savvy AI programmer or hobbyist ;-)

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Sam Gentile — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:58:00 GMT

Congrats!

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Geoff Appleby — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:59:00 GMT

W00t! Congrats!

Is this your first?

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Serge Baranovsky — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:29:00 GMT

Congratulations Duncan - a cute one!

I am sure you will many great moments with your little baby - please post progress reports over the coming months

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Nick Parker — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:29:00 GMT

Congrats Duncan!

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Bill Burrows (MVP) — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:04:00 GMT

What a beautiful baby ... congratulations.

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

David — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:21:00 GMT

Congrats, Duncan! God Bless!

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Bob McKenzie — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:22:00 GMT

Congradulations Mr. MacKenzie, on the beautiful baby girl!!!

God Bless you and your family!!!

And thank you for your contributions as a trusted resource.

Regards,

Bob

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Julie Lerman — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:19:00 GMT

Oh a girl! I know you already find it way too hard to say no to your son, but this is going to be even harder!! Congratulations!!!

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

Anthony Nystrom — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:16:00 GMT

Where do I download this...?

Thanks

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Wayne Taylor — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:36:00 GMT

Congratulations to you and your wife!!!!!

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Tom Mertens — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:32:00 GMT

Congratulations Duncan!

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

Anders Sundberg — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:26:00 GMT

Have a look at http://www.mod2software.com/

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Steve Butler — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:21:00 GMT

Woohoo! Grats!

RE: I'm leaving the MSDN Content Team...

Sriram — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT

I'll miss your articles - they were always chock-full of technical content - but usually done with an amazingly fun app that made you smack your head and go "Why didnt I think of that?".

RE: I'm leaving the MSDN Content Team...

Duncan Mackenzie — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:33:00 GMT

Thanks Sriram, I'll probably still write, that wasn't really part of the Content Strategist job... it is more something that I do on my personal time... but without a doubt there will be a reduced # of articles coming out of me :)

RE: Supporting LiveBookmarks in FireFox 1.0

Dare Obasanjo — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:38:00 GMT

>Auto-discovery in RSS Bandit and a few other programs should have ceased to work against these pages

RSS Bandit uses a number of heuristics for locating the RSS feed for a page. Using the auto discovery link is merely step 1 of a four step process. So it is unlikely that change alone would have broken that feature in RSS Bandit.

RE: Visual C# 2005 will have Edit and Continue

WillemM — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:27:00 GMT

YEAH !!

RE: I'm leaving the MSDN Content Team...

Sean Gephardt — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:13:00 GMT

Welcome to the Team, Duncan! Now you'll be allowed to sit with us at lunch! ;)

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

[ Willy Marroquin ] — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:37:00 GMT

Is Your Best Compilation Duckan . Congratulations from Colombia !!

Willy

http://www.WillyDev.NET

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Sean Gahan — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:37:00 GMT

Congratulations on the new addition, and you will be missed as the Content Strategist. I hope that you will continue blogging and authoring great articles.

Best wishes,
Sean Gahan

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

JJ — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:29:00 GMT

No source code? We gotta pay for it? What a jip!

RE: Visual C# 2005 will have Edit and Continue

kids — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:10:00 GMT

Ms. bless C# developer

RE: Outlook programming article now available...

Anan — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:45:00 GMT

Hello

I am looking for solution that i could retrieve contacts info from Database and import in Contacts.

RE: Managed code samples from the Exchange SDK

Shrinivas — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:05:00 GMT

Can we use web dav for copying files using Windows C#?

RE: Interesting discussion on GotDotNet around the use of VSS...

John Borders — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:20:00 GMT

The Thread for the Best Practices of VSS with .Net was good, very good, but it didn't even touch a very important topic - Do you check in Solution Files.....or Not? There are lots of issues concerning this choice and even if you do make the choice to check them in, then you need to deal with the stupid VS choices for directory structure and project layout under Solutions.

But I did enjoy the thread and want to reiterate the best part of it - DATABASE PROJECTS!!! Some of the coolest VS/VSS/SQL technology to come along in a long time!

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Phil — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:25:00 GMT

good luck

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:36:00 GMT

Great picture!
Now the fun really begins. I wish you all the luck in the world.

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

Phil Weber — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:37:00 GMT

Duncan: Question #4 ('Why do you use mixed-language solutions?') complains that I must "select" at least one answer, even after I have typed a response into the textbox.

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

Duncan Mackenzie — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:01:00 GMT

I think I've fixed that problem with question #4... if I haven't, just let me know :)

RE: .NET Framework Code Coverage Edition

abhijeet — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:49:00 GMT

good

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Michael King — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:21:00 GMT

Congratulations and best of luck to you and the family.

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

SM Palacios — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:15:00 GMT

Thanks guys...I used Storm, she used her whirlwind, and Cyclops took care of the rest...

thanks for the info..I was really stuck,

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

fooled customer — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:29:00 GMT

So I subscribed to Verizon Wireless. For 4 months, Verizon had been sending my billing statement to the store where I bought my cellphone. Duh, no wonder I never received the billing statements. Stupid morons! Next thing I knew, my credit report was tainted, because of non-payment. What a bunch of dipsticks! Never again, Verizon! You are a bunch of fools!

RE: MSDN Team Bios up :)

John Morales — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:35:00 GMT

They might be posted, but if the links don't work, can you really say that they are "up"? ;o)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/team/bios/DUNCANMA/

returns 404.

RE: MSDN Team Bios up :)

John Morales — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:37:00 GMT

ah, clicking the name link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/team/DUNCANMA/

works, while clicking the "more..." link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/team/bios/DUNCANMA/

does not.

RE: MSDN Team Bios up :)

Duncan Mackenzie — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:48:00 GMT

Thanks John, I'm told this problem is being fixed :)

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Geoff Appleby — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:56:00 GMT

You almost had it, but not quite :)

First, you don't put the 'float:left' on #navbar. This confuses IE. Only have the have the 'float:right' on #content.

Second, When exploiting 'float:right', IE renders things in a strange order, and the thing floating right must come first - so if you change your html to have you #content div just before your #navbar div, then it all works according to plan :)

Does this help?

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

murphy — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 05:46:00 GMT

Shes got her big brother wrapped around her finger all ready......the second ones are more fun.. the parents have a little more experience :~)

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Pete — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 06:28:00 GMT

Hi Duncan,

CSS can be a real bugger. You can get away with making the following minor css changes to get it to work:

1. remove "margin: 0 79% 0 0;" from the id navbar
2. remove "display:inline;" from the id content.

Note, you have really bashed that dreamweaver template way out of shape. The approach they use in the dw halo example is designed to give you one fixed pane and one scalable pane (which you aren't doing). I strongly recommend to people playing with css for the first time to look at other peoples css but write their own by hand and keep it as simple as possible, it takes a little longer but it tends to "click" faster.

-pte

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Kent Sharkey — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:12:00 GMT

You're starting to sound like one of your (ex)co-workers. Must be the sleep deprivation.

Two tools that may help with this, and future CSS headaches (courtesy of Lowell). Firefox and the Web Developer Extension. You can use it to highlight block-level items on a page, then view (and edit) the CSS, or click an area to see what CSS applies.

Oh, and great samples of what you're trying to do on http://www.alistapart.com

TTFN - Kent

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Kent Sharkey — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:16:00 GMT

Oh, and Pete was right.

If you change navBar to:
#navBar{
margin: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 0px;
}

It clears up the problem. I had a similar CSS overlap (box model issues) on my weblogs stylesheet.

TTFN - Kent

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Denise Wynn — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:21:00 GMT

I was going to post to just get rid of the 79% in the margin but everyone beat me to it. Setting it to 0 makes it work as you were probably expecting in IE and Firefox.

I would also suggest that you put a fixed width on the leftnav (as opposed to the percentage you have) if it's just going to be displaying ads so it doesn't change widths at different resolutions.

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

ERIK — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:09:00 GMT

When might a programmer use Visual Basic

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

slingmoon — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:56:00 GMT

I'm very glad to hear this .

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

HOQUANGNHATANH — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:33:00 GMT

i want one book write full about visualbasic.net
where will i buy it ?
help me

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Isaiah — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:11:00 GMT

Good luck to you!

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

Schneider — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:09:00 GMT

What about the results???

RE: Less frustrated...

Geoff — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:59:00 GMT

Duncan:

Check out Eric Meyer's stuff. He has two books out that have helped me immensely with CSS.

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/

Project Seven has some good tutorials that help with broken browsers

http://www.projectseven.com/

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

alan — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:02:00 GMT

its like the same as pc

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

erwinLeyes — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:59:00 GMT

To sum it all... business is business, that's MS. I'm more concentrated on ms access because most of my work are datacentric in nature.Ease of use and Highly customized reports is what the client's want's/needs. No REPORT - No PAY!. I don't know, maybe bill gates has an idol (somebody) there in seagate co.(crystal report)-Patronize and maximize your on product pls!. (mr gates). Hoping that there will be an immediate improvement esp. on dynamic crosstab report generation and an optimized compiler for ms access like RBASE/FOX that could pack finish application into a single setup/exe.That's all and ms access will become the super very best desktop dbase and client/server front end dev't tool.
If MS will not move somebody (like what happened in autocad/Autolisp-A 3rd party come up with visualLisp/OBJECT DCL/GWSharpLISP is what the public's waiting for.) a 3rd party will definitely address the demand!

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

erwinLeyes — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:55:00 GMT

.NET is the FUTURE - this is the phrase i've always seen and read in the WEB. What about the other dev't tools? are they all moving/upgrading and converting to the .net world? No comment on the new programming languages introduced, anybody could learn.I've tried the 1st version of VS.net specifically vb.net and I find it not super RAD tools esp for data centric application.ADO.Net is what i'm waiting for-DISCONNECTED RS. Report writer is crystal report.. AGAIN? which is no match of a 12 year old access report writer.Why MS did not incorporate access form/report designer or a much improve reporting tools to VS.net? Imagine a winforms + ms access like forms? WOW! its the end maybe? AGAIN Business is Business in Redmond! is the new sql server 2005 reporting tools/Engine (much improve than the ms access)and the answer of MS? ROCK's what about RUNTIME REVOLUTION dev't. Tool from scothland? what can you say? to be burried by MS- illegal Operation scheme?

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

Ravi — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:41:00 GMT

I want vb code for which application is running & how how maney time it is in sleep mode. if this application is sleep mode for particuler time then lock perticuler application and when user want unlock application ask password.

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

Ravi — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:42:00 GMT

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

Andrew — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:12:00 GMT

Oops. Can't get to the survey as the entire duncanmackenzie.net site is down... I'll check back later. Ta. (thanks for the tip about nsurvey though)

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

Duncan Mackenzie — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:17:00 GMT

Ouch, yep... the site was down for a day... something wrong within my forums code. The site is back up now, except for the forums that is :)

RE: Halo 2 Stats via RSS... an interesting idea that I think could be improved

Jason Bock — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:58:00 GMT

I completely agree. That way I could do some processing on it for my own site and do all sorts of stuff. It would also be nice if it told you whether or not you won, lost, or tied, like:

<bungie:gameResult>Won</bungie:gameResult> 

I'd submit this to Bungie. There'd be a whole new level of extensibility to their information if they did this :).

Regards,

Jason

P.S. Gamertag: ViktorJB

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Praveen — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:09:00 GMT

Nice picture, Have a great time....You must be back pretty soon to work...

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

Kevin — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:32:00 GMT

JJ - Are you really complaining about $15 (assuming the tool is worthwhile)? If you bill $60/hour and the tool saves you 15 minutes one time, then you've broken even. Come on, here... I can understand concerns about $1000 toolsets, but this is a bit ridiculous.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

timothy — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:04:00 GMT

i tryed that, it still don't work

RE: A flexible line graph class library in C#

soohong — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:49:00 GMT

i hope look your graph class C#

RE: Frustrated with my own incompetence...

Martin Naughton — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:28:00 GMT

Looks like it is hard to get a 3-column layout working with only CSS, such that the columns don't wrap when the browser is resized to be narrow?

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

John — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:50:00 GMT

Good luck to you and your family.

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Medusa — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:25:00 GMT

Congratulations and the best regards for you and your family as a new-born healthy baby come to a new world ;much more happiness follows.Beyound doubt ,the come of a new life is in the spotlight in aroud the whole house in recent days. The little kid amuses u more than ever before.Here is my email:medusa-echo@126.com

RE: Drawing rotated text...

Edward — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:46:00 GMT

Very helpful for basic rotations of text. Perhaps compass directions could be correct...but the idea is there!

RE: Drawing rotated text...

abhishek sharma — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:53:00 GMT

sir/madam
i want a method so that i can convert a text page into an excel form and also able to run macros on that sheet as in excel

RE: C# Programmable Calculator

Eric Bergman-Terrell — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:59:00 GMT

Hi Duncan, thanks for mentioning C# Programmable Calculator on your blog.

This program is now available as open source. The setup and source code can be downloaded from:

http://www.personalmicrocosms.com/html/cspcalc.html

Sincerely,

Eric Bergman-Terrell
www.PersonalMicroCosms.com

RE: Drawing rotated text...

Tajdiq — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:27:00 GMT

Dear Sir,
I want to save data from a datagrid to an Execl file.

Thanks/Tajdiq
tajdiq@youngone.co.kr

RE: UI Patterns and Techniques

Lee Gilbert — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:07:00 GMT

I am interested in UI patterns for mobile and pervasive computing. So far I have found a few patterns at http://www.welie.com/index.html, and would like more, especially those which are validated in focus groups, etc.

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

marlon — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:43:00 GMT

i want learn more about the VB.net. . what other books will i see or read it. help pls!!

RE: Drawing rotated text...

Kosan — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:37:00 GMT

good job bro !!!!!!

RE: Drawing rotated text...

kim — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 21:49:00 GMT

I am very interested in your work

RE: DataGrid programming...

safatooooooo — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:01:00 GMT

hello may naem is safa karimi
please insert vb code game mode
tank you
see you

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Kerowren — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:26:00 GMT

Once, I was under the impression that I excelled at VB. Matter of fact, once, I thought I was 'pretty good'.
Can you explain to me what Protected Override does and while you're at it, what are the functions of the Option <whatever besides Explicit>. My world has just been turned upside down.

RE: DataGrid programming...

Ali — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:40:00 GMT

this article really rocks..!

RE: DataGrid programming...

Rogie Paulo — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:28:00 GMT

Dear
have a good day!

I'm a student programmer using visual basic, may you help me to put dropdown like combobox in datagrid and put all the data from my database.
please send me sample code or program about this.

thanks

Rogie Paulo
rogiepaulo@yahoo.com

RE: An interview with Rocky about VB.NET

faisal usman — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:46:00 GMT

can you tell me that which language is one of the most powerfull language
for network programming and how?

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Mark Christian Aguilar-Barra — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:29:00 GMT

id like to ask if there's a property of the textbox that will restrict the user from inputting letters or numbers? just like in macromedia flash. Im a computer science student from the Philippines. Thank you.

here's my email add.= markchristian_aguilar@yahoo.com

RE: Spent the day doing Access 2000 work...

John Casey — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:48:00 GMT

It is so nice to hear those words, let me explain. I started developing as a young teen on a VIC20 (BASIC). In high school we used Commodore PETS (BASIC) and GW-Basic on PCs. When I went to college in 1991, last DOS only course before they introduced Windows, I took Cobol, C, Business Basic, etc... Because my first child was on the way, I had to get a good job as soon as I could, so raither than focus on C, I used what I knew already and focused on Basic language positions.

I quickly landed an Access position. Then another two years later for 10K more and then another two years later for 15K more. And then another two years later for 30K more. Here is the problem. During that time I picked up a few other skills, but I always got pulled into another Access position. Now the IT market is dead and the only experience I really have is Access. I tried a few years ago to pick up Java and then .NET, but when you are working, it is very difficult to find the time to learn something new. Add to that is fact that I am now 35 and new languages do not come to me as easy as when I was 20.

I still think for smaller requirements, Access can do a fine job so long as the developer knows what they are doing. I think alot of Access' bad rap is the fault of unexperienced developers creating projects that fail. I have built Access databases that can search 100,000 records across a LAN in a second or less.

Furthermore I also can not understand why Microsoft does not give Access the same strong DB engine SQL Server has, so more developers can benefit from the superior Access dev environment.

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

steven vore — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:08:00 GMT

note: MSDN's bio footer for you still has a pointer to your old weblog.

RE: Drawing rotated text...

mahesh — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:23:00 GMT

It s simply super,,

thanks for ur program so that i can use it in mine...

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Emmanuel Nepomuceno — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:47:00 GMT

Just to try to answer Kerowren's questions about what Protected Overrides does. The Overrides is a keyword in VB.NET to specify that you would be overriding the default behavior of the OnPaint Method with the one you write in your code. Basically, the Parent Class Form that the code above inherits from has it's own "default" code for OnPaint. Child classes of the class Form can change the way they paint the screen by specifying their own OnPaint code. You specify that you want to "change" the default code of a Parent Class by specifying the keyword Overrides. Here's an example of inheritance and overriding:

Class Man
Public Overridable Function GetName() as String
Return "Anonymous Man"
End Function
End Class

Class EmmanuelMan : Inherits Man
Public Overrides Function GetName() as String
Return "Emmanuel Man"
End Function
End Class

The keyword Protected and so is Public and Private changes the "visibility" and accessiblity of a method. For example Private will make the method accessible to only the class where the method was defined. Public makes it accessible to everything. Protected is somewhere in between.

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

Dinehs — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:15:00 GMT

Sir

i want to find out weather a form contain a particular named cotrols without using error object

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

Capt. Newton — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:30:00 GMT

Sir,

I need to use Visual Basic 6 to automate msword 2000, create 5 columns, and then populate the colums with with records from msaccess.

does anyone know how to do this, and assign font type/size to the text being entered into the word document.

Many thanks
Capt. Newton

RE: DataGrid programming...

Rajesh — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:27:00 GMT

i am rajesh from india. i am a Programmer usinf ASP.NET. may you help for In ASP.NET How to Put a textbox or Combobox in datagrid?
Please send me sample code or solutions
thank you

Rajesh K.A
rka2079@hotmail.com

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

trac — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:36:00 GMT

yes, then just simply add : SendKeys.Send("{TAB}")

RE: DataGrid programming...

trac — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:46:00 GMT

hi, if you're looking for a solution to add a control into datagrid's cell, you'll found a lot. I've got problem when adding a combobox into grid, following MSDN's sample code, codeproject ..., there is no perfect solution until I found a great a www.datagridstyles.com, check it out. Oh, forgot telling the problem when adding combobox, the adding is ok but when you enter that combobox, that combobox doesn't act as a normal combobox: problem when I enter the combobox by pressing Tab (it moves to next cell), pressing up or down arrow key :)

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Kerowren — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:54:00 GMT

Thanks, that does explain somethings. For one its VB.NET not VB6 :-P.
I'm not into .NET. It gives me the feeling of programming in a cage.

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

primortal — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:29:00 GMT

How can i use this for the web instead of a vb application?

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

angga — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:57:00 GMT

how can i make a package deploy and become the vb6 and sql7 that i use
to be instaler program,and can move it to other pc..
thanks sir

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

duc luc — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:17:00 GMT

lay thong tin

RE: Drawing rotated text...

crysthalia — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:37:00 GMT

hello,

how can i connect my report from access to visual basic?and how to add item from a textbox from form1 to a combobox of form2?

gud pm...

RE: DataGrid programming...

sumeet — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:32:00 GMT

i m a student working in asp.net plz help me to inport and display a pdf file over an intranet

RE: DataGrid programming...

Jharna — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:21:00 GMT

Hi,
I am new to vb.net programming & i can't get an idea how to add an unbound ComboBox in the DataGrid as a column.
Thanks

Jharna
jharnavaid@yahoo.co.in

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

hany bonyadi — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:56:00 GMT

hello
i have problem with DataGrid ,when tablestyle added to it ,Enter processing not work.
please help me.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

SPARTAN 117 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:23:00 GMT

Roger that blue team Zula

RE: More on that Halo Armor

SPARTAN 117 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:24:00 GMT

Are they coming out with more Halo books?

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

nana osei — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:31:00 GMT

id like to ask if there's a property of the textbox that will restrict the user from inputting letters or numbers? just like in macromedia flash. Im a computer science student from ghana

email: nanafrifa@yahoo.co.uk

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Savager — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:25:00 GMT

Sorry for my English....

How set BEEP=OFF When I Press "Enter". And I Do Me.ProcessTabKey(Not e.Shift)

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

疯牛涕淌 — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:38:00 GMT

Oh, come on! .NET is a wonderful world!

RE: Drawing rotated text...

abdul Mohsin — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:34:00 GMT

Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Work

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Sajith Poduval — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:24:00 GMT

I want to know how to create autofilling combo boxes by using vb code.

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Jasreel Pogay — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:47:00 GMT

Do you show me how to use listbox in visual basic ?

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

vipin kumar — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:21:00 GMT

Can any body tell me how to read and update the word documents using vb.net and produce an output as "html"

Thanks in advance

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

vipin kumar — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:22:00 GMT

Can any body tell me how to read and update the word documents using vb.net and produce an output as "html"

Thanks in advance

RE: Cool GDI+ Demo with VB.NET

vvv — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:48:00 GMT

asdsdafds

RE: January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

zohaib hassan ansari(sunaan) — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:01:00 GMT

sir :
i want to make a program that will run all the songs , audio and video songs too. i mean that i want to creat a media player

RE: EndIf or End If?

Digesh — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:09:00 GMT

VFP9.0 is indeed superb - try it and the productivity just blows you away...

It is a pity the product profile is kept so low.

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Chris Bentley — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 06:21:00 GMT

I've got the same problem with one of the 'system' sounds occuring when 'Enter' is hit. If I handle the Enter key in OnKeyUp then the beep seems to occur before I enter the event handler. I changed to handling the Enter key within OnKeyDown and there is no beep during the handler - ergo the beep must be occuring within "KeyPressed" I'm tempted to handle KeyPressed as well and just set "handled" to true for Enter, but, I don't think that Enter actually raises a KeyPressed (or did I read the docs incorrectly???)

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Bud Staniek — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:02:00 GMT

The e.Handled = True statement should suppress the beep.

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Chris Bentley — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:21:00 GMT

>>> The e.Handled = True statement should suppress the beep.

"Should" being the operative word... She's still beeping at me - to the extent that I think I'll turn of the sound programatically and restore it when *I* think it should be on. To make matters worse, when I convert the enter to a tab for a DateTimePicker control I get a different beep - actually it's Windows XP Ding

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

3884273 — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:58:00 GMT

j3204-9324-0

RE: More on that Halo Armor

master of disaster — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:07:00 GMT

Where is the armor, i must have the armor? NOW or I'll bring the whole covenant fleet down upon you all. HAHAHAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

RE: More on that Halo Armor

master of disaster — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:08:00 GMT

Spartan 117 why don't you be more original, i mean come on!

RE: EndIf or End If?

Baltazar Ruiz — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:10:00 GMT

Congratulations. I'd like to know, if you could help me, how to use dbf (foxpro) files in visual basic .net
Is it possible to do that?
If you can't (or don't want to) help me, thanks anyway.

Bye.

RE: EndIf or End If?

Eyvind — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:35:00 GMT

Yep, VFP 9 rocks, allright!

Baltazar: You can use dbf's in .NET using the VFP OLE DB provider. I have not tried this myself, though, so I am unable to give you any code examples, but I bet some googling will provide you with an answer.

RE: Cool GDI+ Demo with VB.NET

mehdi farokhi — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:46:00 GMT

...

RE: Cool GDI+ Demo with VB.NET

mehdi farokhi — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:50:00 GMT

it is cool Demo.
thanks a lot

RE: EndIf or End If?

VB.Net Coder — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:17:00 GMT

Visual Fox Pro is dead, just bury it and move on.

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

TJ Neal — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:04:00 GMT

[code]
Private Sub frmFirst_Report_KeyPress _
(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.KeyPress

If e.KeyChar = Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(Keys.Enter) Then
If TypeOf Me.ActiveControl Is TextBox Then
Dim tb As TextBox = DirectCast(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox)
If tb.Multiline AndAlso tb.AcceptsReturn Then
e.Handled = False
Exit Sub
End If
End If
e.Handled = True
Dim oform As Form = Me.FindForm
oform.SelectNextControl(oform.ActiveControl, True, True, True, True)
oform.ActiveControl.Focus()
End If
End Sub
[/code]

Set your form to KeyPreview and place this routine on the form. You will not get a beep at all and you do not need to access any overrides. (If you prefer SendKey.Send("{TAB}") instead of the SelectNextControl it will function also).

RE: EndIf or End If?

Wess — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:40:00 GMT

Visual FoxPro is the best most dominant data centric with powerful automation development tool I have ever used, it's also blazingly fast. It’s the best tool to use with a data centric application either with its own native data engine or SQL.

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

harmeet singh — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:18:00 GMT

sss

RE: EndIf or End If?

Vern — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 11:15:00 GMT

This is probably the most patronizing piece I have ever read with respect to VFP. I particularily like the references to the books by Les and Kevin right below VFP9. In other words, buy VFP9 but use .NET instead.

This is just another slick example of how MS attempts to force developers to use certain products. What MS fails to realize is that VFP developers would probably give .NET a shot if they just cease all efforts to force it. It is for this reason that I will probably learn Java instead, not to mention the fact that there is MUCH MORE Java development going on than .NET.

RE: EndIf or End If?

VfpX — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:39:00 GMT

"VFP developers would probably give .NET a shot"

I gave it a shot, came back dissapointed.
What they don't understand is that Java was never more productive than VFP.
So trying to copy Java into .NET wouldn't do any better.
Instead they should have focused on porting VFP to Linux to gain the terrain they lost to PHP and Python.
Well, too late. The damage is done.

RE: Free stuff?

stephanie — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 13:17:00 GMT

http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14012014

RE: EndIf or End If?

anu demurin — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:13:00 GMT

its possible to design website using this software

RE: Developer.com has been publishing a ton of great VB articles...

Dave Burke — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:25:00 GMT

These sound like really excellent articles. Thanks for posting this. I wish I could make time to read them, especially the last one!

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Steve — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:25:00 GMT

Oh, i'm not *really* a mac folk, OSX has it's problems too.. I'm just trying to understand the emotional attachment to software a bit better :)

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Robert — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:03:00 GMT

Many problems occuring throughout the game. I understand the routes, maps and stuuff but can you help? If so reply at this website. Waiting to here from you.

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Robert — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:04:00 GMT

Many problems occuring throughout the game. I understand the routes, maps and stuuff but can you help? If so reply at this website. Waiting to here from you.

RE: EndIf or End If?

Ian — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:09:00 GMT

I don't get to do VFP as much as I would like to, but I always have it installed for Ad-Hoc use, its just better and more flexible than the VS.Net data tools/Qeury Analyser/Enterprise Manager combination (especially manipulating multiple data types).

I recognised that moving away from VFP was a big step backwards, but had to do so to remain viable as an independent contractor (at least here in the UK).

Looking forward to playing with VFP9 though.

To use an American term 'You guys Rock!'

RE: EndIf or End If?

Anthony — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:49:00 GMT

Let me see if I got this straight...

"I doubt I'll find a project to use it on in the immediate future.."

...but yet he conveniently has links to two books to get you out of VFP 9.0.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, I read MSFT blogs to get away from ineffective MSFT marketing. NOT!

RE: Added support for the rel="nofollow" attribute to my .Text installation...

Sean Chase — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:31:00 GMT

Maybe I missed the clue train completely on this, but I'm assuming the spammers are doing this programmatically? If so, seems like just doing a javascript confirm would blow their plan? For example, add the following script to the end of PostComment.ascx...

<script language="javascript">
function Confirm()
{
return confirm('Are you sure you want to submit this comment?');
}
document.all("PostComment.ascx_btnSubmit").onclick = Confirm;
</script>

RE: Added support for the rel="nofollow" attribute to my .Text installation...

Derek Lakin — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:25:00 GMT

Sean, although some (if not most) of the comment spam is being done by spambots, there are still a large number of determined spammers that seem to be quite happy to do their spamming manually. As an example my blog was spammed just yesterday despite having a HIP-CAPTCHA control on the commenting interface.

Our analysis of spamming at FlexWiki.com also indicates that the spam received there is also being done manually.

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Envy Guy — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:57:00 GMT

They may have the size. They do lack the look.

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Jav — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:43:00 GMT

My buddy and I were at the Apple store today for the debut. I didn't buy one (no yang!) but he did; and he loves it. MiniMacs aren't really expensive at all. For $533 tax and all you get a fully functional PC. Add keyboard, mouse, and VGA and voila! Go put together a Shuttle or mini-ITX for that. And it's 1.2Ghz for the base and you get a burner, 256MB of RAM and a desktop that makes WinXP look like yesterday's bread. I'm a PC guy and don't even own a Mac, but from a desktop and graphics perspective they beat the pants off WinTel and now do it for about the same price. Can you build a faster PC? Sure. But you'd be hard pressed to get the speed you want for $500. Macs perform differently too so you can't really compare them Apples-for-apples (sorry, :)). You'd be missing the point anyway. We PC users have kidded ourselves for years that our PC's were are asthetically pleasing as Macs and strutted about in the knowledge we have all this CPU power. The truth is, if you use a Mac you'll likely keep
it.

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

KoMarik — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:50:00 GMT

They are NOT the same size. 10" deep vs. 6.5" deep for MiniMac. Makes a difference for me. And I'm not even mentioning other differences, although those PCs are probably faster.

RE: EndIf or End If?

Steve — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:03:00 GMT

I used to be a VFP programmer...moved to VB6 due to the needs of the dev shop I was working for.

VFP was great to code with (don't know about now as I haven't used it since V5) but I found coding with VB6 okay (did miss the code reuse that came with inheritance tho') and now with .Net I really can't imagine it's raison d'etre except in supporting legacy apps.

What I do remember was a lot of bitterness from VFP community about the way that MS had left their well loved language tool behind. Understandable I guess but somewhat childish.

Personally I enjoy coding but in the end it's a mean to an end (getting paid!) not a religion. Get over VFP chaps, learn .Net (VB.Net or C# doesn't really matter) and leave your bitterness behind. It's all about the business!

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Megan — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:30:00 GMT

Really great work. Exactually what a beginner such as myself was looking for. Thank you!

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Darren Neimke — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:32:00 GMT

Great post Duncan. Having seen your office I keep imagining you with a all of your nerdy books attached at each end of a pole and using it as a barbell :P

I was only just thinking about this topic before you posted - it was wierd. Within the space of 20 or so minutes I saw something on Discovery channel about weight issues and dieting and I also heard that new song which talks about the "great obesity epedemic of 2004". -- Not saying that you are obese, becuase clearly your aren't.

It's a very interesting topic. My parents are both very large but I've been quite lucky that I've always been very involved in sports (Field Hockey and Cricket). So much so that, I've often envisaged that, if I worked on campus over there I'd love playing extreme frisbee during the week and cricket with the Indian and Pakistani guys on MS fields during the weekend.

I'd be interested to know how you feel about the gym - i.e.: the underlying interest in going there. Is it a chore to go or, are you accutely interested and competitive about the activity of it all?

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Greg Robinson — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:58:00 GMT

Though I do not need to lose any weight, I recently decided to cut out the 7-11 Blueberry muffin for breakfast. I did that 3 weeks ago. I got on the scale then and now, I've lost 5lbs!

I also went from 100% coke to 50% coke, 50% diet coke.

So yeah, reduce the intake and\or increase the "outtake" and you are good to go!

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

John Morales — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:20:00 GMT

Knee surgery forced me to quit martial arts a couple years ago. I stopped exercising and started eating. I got quite unhealthy and heavy.

I find diets and whatnot restricting. Over the years, I have tried the Atkins (horrible diet, unhealthy), the South Beach (not so bad, but annoying) and others. Last year, I read the online book, "The Hacker's Diet." (Google on it, it's the first link, usually.)

3,500 calories = 1lb of fat. If you subtract 500 cal per day from your normal burn rate (~2000 cal for me) (based on sex/age/height) that is 1lb/week loss. I restricted my food intake to 1300 to 1400 cal/day and lost 7lb/month. As of November when I relaxed my intake restrictions, I had lost 41 lbs in 5 mo.

I experienced just what you did and realized that that exercise has nothing to do with weight gain/loss. Exercise IS important for fitness's sake, it just has nothing to do with weight. (Well, exercise can raise your metabolism so you burn more cal, and the cal you burn during exercise comes right off the top of your daily budget, but both effects are minimal when compared with food intake.)

For exercise, I bought the Yorself!Fitness software for the Xbox. It is a freakin cool "game" and a very good workout regimen. It is easy to work with, configurable for your schedule and it tracks your progress and ramps your difficulty based on your feedback.

Good luck with your fitness program, Duncan. We all find what works for us.

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Duncan Mackenzie — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:23:00 GMT

Hey Darren, I don't find the gym to be a chore now, but I always used to see it that way... it is all part of getting into working out though and once you start seeing some results I think it is very motivational ;)

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Duncan Mackenzie — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:25:00 GMT

If you have multiple forms, just add each .vb file onto your command line (vbc.exe form1.vb form2.vb form3.vb).... yep, devenv.exe works wonders but I was assuming that you don't have access to Visual Studio in this case.

RE: Buy yourself a .NET Celebrity (and the $ is for a good cause)

pablo — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:42:00 GMT

he estado observando que todo tipo de informanción que microsoft brinda gratuitamente esta en el idioma ingles lo que genera que el resto del mundo se vea obligado a aprender el idioma ingles.
Microsoft es una gran empresa y como consumidor de productos microsoft sería muy bueno poder consultar material de lectura manuales, articulos etc en idioma español espero que mi comentario sirva de algo desde ya muchas gracias

RE: Buy yourself a .NET Celebrity (and the $ is for a good cause)

Miguel — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:52:00 GMT

Hola, que tal me eh dado cuenta de lo interesante que es para microsoft crear virus, ya que luego pueden utilizar su propia medicina, esto es algo que no puedo soportar. Che esta pagina es una porqueria no te escribe nadie, bueno los dejo adios, olvidense de latinoamerica.

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Maxim V. Karpov — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:58:00 GMT

When I came here, I also found myself in the situation where the entire culture is talking about loosing weight and working out to do so. I came from athletic family and this concept was foreing to me. I truely believe that working out is for getting in shape, which makes you to loose weight. our body is very smart when it come to things like this one.

I have setup yet another blog, this time i will be sharing my experience with workouts http://gearedtowin.com

my two cents, maxim

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

rob fury — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:02:00 GMT

I am playing X-me with my friend and I beat that level. You use storm to weld it together.

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Jorriss — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:54:00 GMT

Last year I too saw that I needed too lose some weight. Not much just about ten to fifteen pounds. So I set a goal for myself. To run in the Walt Disney World Half Marathon. In the process I lost twenty pounds and went from running a half-mile to thirteen miles! Two weeks ago I ran in the marathon and I can honestly say that it was one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. I think next year I'm going to attempt the full marathon. Isn't fitness fun!

RE: EndIf or End If?

Wess — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:42:00 GMT

“……leave your bitterness behind. It's all about the business!”

So what if tomorrow MS decides to dump VB.Net or C# and introduce a new development tool/language VB.NOT and C*, I mean the problem is - you invest a lot of time learning a tool and then it gets changed on you for no reason, also, I use both VFP9 and C#, you make it sound as if .NET is so much superior that VFP, at what? I just don’t see it?? When it comes to data centric project or Windows applications (remember windows applications!) I always select VFP as the superior platform with an SQL backend and C# for the .aspx applications.

RE: Developer.com has been publishing a ton of great VB articles...

Basketcase — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:14:00 GMT

I am a tech school student. I am studying Visual Basic 6.0. I bought Visual Studio.NET for my home computer. I have a very expensive LARGE piece of trash taking up space on my hard drive. VB.NET may be the wave of the future, but the fact that schools are teaching Visual Basic 6.0 as the necessary foundation to whatever follows.

I CANNOT do VB 6.0 classwork with VB.NET. The whole package is so complicated it has taken 3 three weeks of reading junk only the experts understand to find info about a thing called a start page. Anything done in VB6 at school must be "converted", and then I cannot find anything in this conversion that looks like my classwork. If there is any way to make this program compatible someone please point me in the right direction.

Sorry you seem to catch the flack, Guys, but your articles are the only thing I have read in the past weeks that makes sense. It seems to me you 've said what I've been suspecting. The two programs are not compatible.

RE: Update on the free stuff...

josh — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:18:00 GMT

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I have a couple of the referrals for the flat screen, but I ran out of people to ask who I knew would actually want to do one of those offers. The conga line thing has a little potential, but who knows...

RE: Buy yourself a .NET Celebrity (and the $ is for a good cause)

SPIDI GONZALEZ — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:43:00 GMT

HOLA, yo la he visto hoy y microsoft deberia

RE: Another little .Text update...

Thomas Freudenberg — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:24:00 GMT

That's exactly what I described in http://asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=434771 . Another option is removing the managingEditor tag, if you don't want to expose your email address. The feed will still be valid without that tag.

RE: A post about new MSDN Content? Nope, not quite...

Dominic Shakeshaft — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:48:00 GMT

Way to go Duncan :)

RE: Another little .Text update...

Kent Sharkey — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:33:00 GMT

Thomas is correct. managingEditor is optional, so removing the tag would also be valid. If it does exist, it is supposed to be a valid email address, but it can be missed.

TTFN - Kent

RE: EndIf or End If?

Marty Garins — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:05:00 GMT

I have never used VFP or FP and yet I still type EndIf and let the visual studio editor fix it for me.

RE: Halo 2 Stats via RSS... an interesting idea that I think could be improved

Ksking — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:53:00 GMT

R u guys serious.... you probably have a bad graphic card r sumthing....... on bungie.net ....... it says who won or lost.... the score...... kills, assists, deaths, everything you could need to know. It even shows you where you died and by what ... i think you guys ned to get the facts before you start shootin your mouths off

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

Mansi — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:03:00 GMT

I played with Word 11.0 COM on VB.Net platform. The word automation seems like providing writing to word document and changing the content, layout etc. Is there any way to read from the Word Document Preserving Style? Say suppose you are reading first line of Document having Font Size = 18 and Font color = Blue, What properties do I need to retrieve through VB.Net or VC#.net coding?

Thanks.

RE: Free XP Themed Windows Forms Controls

lauraj — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:59:00 GMT

I love this and it's totally true :)
"...the joy of rediscovery is the positive side of a poor memory... "

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

French Patriarch — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:06:00 GMT

Hi, Do you guys know that, the 1.25Ghz MiniMac can be mounted up to 1.42Ghz?
I've found that recently, it's only a lockup on the processor making the speed down to 1.25Ghz.
I know a guy who did break that lockup, and he's now 1.42Ghz, like the second MiniMac for 600$ that comes with 80Gb.

I still dont got my MiniMac, I paid 825$ for 1.25Ghz with 512Ram, I live in Canada :(
Alright now I am just scared my PC screen does not work with the MiniMac?
Or that my cracked Call Of Duty does not work on it?
I still not tryed it, i'm on a G3 iMac ( 400 mhz, 64 RAM ) <-- AHAHAH
Ok allright see you soon guys.

Spam#3

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

French Patriarch — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:06:00 GMT

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

French Patriarch — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:06:00 GMT

RE: Free XP Themed Windows Forms Controls

xia — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:50:00 GMT

May I use this as a signature in my emails?

"...the joy of rediscovery is the positive side of a poor memory... " -Duncan Mackenzie

RE: Free stuff?

bl♂ger♠ — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:16:00 GMT

heres a site for free laptops http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=212652

RE: Free XP Themed Windows Forms Controls

buloy Cool — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:52:00 GMT

Hey I'm making an internet cafe application, and I'm having a hard time running an application(winlocker) from servre to host.. Can you give me some sample (winsock) codes please....

Thank you....
God Bless

RE: Getting the 8.3 filename...

buloy Cool — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:54:00 GMT

RE: Conga Lines....

Guy — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:15:00 GMT

Here is a site with conga lines for many of the different offers.

<a href="http://www.dotempire.com/conga-lines.html">http://www.dotempire.com/conga-lines.html</a>

It also has a pretty good explanation of how conga lines work:

<a href="http://www.dotempire.com/what-is-a-conga-line.html">http://www.dotempire.com/what-is-a-conga-line.html</a>

RE: Conga Lines....

Guy — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:16:00 GMT

Sorry...

http://www.dotempire.com/conga-lines.html

http://www.dotempire.com/what-is-a-conga-line.html

RE: C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet

Dmytro — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:10:00 GMT

nice, but if it was in VB.NET then it would be even cooller, if anyone has converted it to vb.net send me a copy ecode@programmer.net

THanx

RE: Beta MSDN Search up....

John Morales — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:29:00 GMT

I tried a sample search: "file system object", with this search, one would think that the documentation page for the FileSystemObject would be near the top. It wasn't even on the first page of links.

The more correct search term: "filesystemobject" yielded the target page as the first link, of course. But, shouldn't there be a bit of intelligence to look for searches like this? A "Best Bet" type of search that tries combinations of major tokens in the search terms and if it finds high probability matches, show them as a high probability result?

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Geoff Appleby — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:52:00 GMT

Hell yeah, post them up. I took the survey, but i don't even remember what the questions were anymore :)

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Anil — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:26:00 GMT

Yes - interested

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Juan David Gomez — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:00:00 GMT

I'd really like to see what my collegues are up to, I took the survey and I was very interesting, ther are times when I can get more crap from the masochists over at C# (http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/02/10/7574.aspx) and I just need some VB love, I think this results would be pretty entretaining

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Juan David Gomez — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:01:00 GMT

I'd really like to see what my colleagues are up to, I took the survey and it was very interesting, there are times when I can get more crap from the masochists over at C# camp (http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/02/10/7574.aspx) and I just need some VB love, I think this results would cheer me up.

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Andre — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:46:00 GMT

Very interested :)

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Dave Rothgery — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:45:00 GMT

Well, I want to see the results; I'd like to see how many statistical anamolies I created...

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

josh — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:53:00 GMT

Absolutely!

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Superfly — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:43:00 GMT

Yes please do post the results, i'm intrested in seeing them!

RE: Conga Lines....

MODerator — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:34:00 GMT

I found this awesome one, you can breeze through it in a HEARTBEAT!

http://macmini.chrisnowak.org

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

Anthony D. Green — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:55:00 GMT

I must know all things VB

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

sa — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:38:00 GMT

I'm interested in the results.

RE: DataGrid programming...

mahiban — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 03:14:00 GMT

hai

i want to design a gatagrid where we should enter data and it should get updated in back end ...and each column should get binded as soon as it mouse click is on another column...

its me
mahiban

RE: Visual Basic Usage Survey posted....

yosi — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:55:00 GMT

hello
i wrote project in vb6 and i use datagrid
i have 2 question
1. how can i change backcolor for individual rows
2. how can i put combobox in datagrid

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

D Bornyk — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:52:00 GMT

Yes , Very Very Interested

RE: Survey Results Posted

Roman — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:32:00 GMT

I participated in this survey and another one which was held some time last year (I've long since forgotten the exact period)
the survey is viewable at:
http://www.visual-expert.com/us/info/survey_vb_2004_results.htm
if anyone is interested. They cover different topics, but they're both valuable in getting an insight into the VB-based developer community.

RE: Survey Results Posted

Geoff Appleby — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:41:00 GMT

Hey Duncan - so what's your thoughts on it? Are these the droids you were looking for?

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Magnus — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:52:00 GMT

yeah...like Ben

RE: Only 2 away from completion ...

Peter Jausovec — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:48:00 GMT

Well, since I am from Europe and this offer is US only ... which LCD do you want ?:)

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Wanin X MEN — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:15:00 GMT

Should i buy X MEN? It looks good but some ppl were sayin its not tht great!

RE: Interested in the results of the Visual Basic usage survey?

VB Coder — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:06:00 GMT

I would be very interested in the results!

RE: Free stuff?

CoolCatCreations — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:56:00 GMT

Check it out: http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15363885

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

Abdullah — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:12:00 GMT

Send me code samples

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

egilh — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:17:00 GMT

If you love source code, I guess you already know about http://www.koders.com/

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

A.Matin — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:50:00 GMT

Add a manue item at "windows Shortcut Manue"

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

toron — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:51:00 GMT

Add a manue item at "windows Shortcut Manue"

RE: Cool GDI+ Demo with VB.NET

alex zhang — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:41:00 GMT

thx

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

Aaron Brethorst — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:31:00 GMT

The code's all ancient. I don't think I've added anything there since before I graduated from college. I hope someone finds it useful, in any case. A Windows version of iRooster *is* definitely forthcoming, though. It'll be a while before I'm done with it, though (my day job has the tendency to consume about 60 hrs/week of my life :) ).

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

Duncan Mackenzie — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:40:00 GMT

Ancient... 2002 and 2003, and all .NET based, and it is ancient :)

Ah, youth... it is, as they say, wasted on the young!

RE: Gratis needs to update their banners :)

Denise Wynn — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:26:00 GMT

I order Dell's for my family and I think they are decent machines but every time I go computer shopping for myself I end up building my own because I just can't find what I want. Dell's site is nice because you can customize your machine to a certain extent but I always wonder about how easy it will be to upgrade the hardware at a later date.

RE: New VB Content Strategist has started...

Simon Roberts — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:14:00 GMT

I found an interest bug with the Intel pentium 4.I think we are all playing the same game again like with the pentium 3. For some reason i am randomising VB with a Randomize now / (now / now / now) and this fractational math should enable the process to randomise, but for some reason my Vb6.0 DLL for Random Drug Screening Selection is not pickin a new random each time it starts. It is always producing the same result. You can find the source code on www.planet-source-code.com, just search the Visual basic section for 'Simon Roberts' it will be one of the titles in the list.

Now with my fractal based encryption I think it is randomising more truely for keys as the key selector is working in a timer which means it will not always fire the same amount of times due to processor load and other system variables. But you cannot do this in a DLL without some difficulty.

Oh well if you could have some more randomisation articles I would love to know more about your perspective of this issue, you can email me at lsd25@hotmail.com I was possibly thing about setting up a UDP port server just to serve a Randomseed to the State Transit Authorities computers that need a randomseed.

Got any comments.

RE: Gratis needs to update their banners :)

Mike — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:05:00 GMT

They also started a Free PSP site for getting a Sony PSP.

RE: Interop Article by Sam Gentile

Darcy Stanerford — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:25:00 GMT

Sam has never written a line of workable code in his life!

RE: I just love finding code samples :)

Aaron Brethorst — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:50:00 GMT

You bet it's ancient, it was implemented with VS 2002 and 2003 Beta 1! ;-)

RE: Beta MSDN Search up....

Arjen — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:55:00 GMT

At least an improvement, but it just doesn't match google.

I use this site: http://www.msdnsearch.com

RE: My experience with GameFly...

non-Pirate — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:39:00 GMT

Michael G. you are freaking idiot for suggesting someone rip (and burn if you like) the DVDs! You're an even bigger idiot for putting your full name on your post!!! I think someone's knocking on your door - must be the DVD police.

RE: New VB Content Strategist has started...

JAckie Goldstein — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:31:00 GMT

What a great choice! He has a tough act to follow, but Brad is a great guy, knows his stuff, and is good to work with. I am sure he'll do great.

RE: Scott Swigart responds to Richard Grimes

Rob Conley — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:32:00 GMT

The apparent compatibility of VB.NET is a mirage. For an application of medium or higher complexity the only answer is a re-write of the software.

For every compatible piece of syntax there is a another that is a minefield. And for anything dealing with forms it is a whole new world and much of the techniques that worked with the VB6 forms are not appliciable or need to be greatly altered.

The effort in converting a app from VB6 to VB.NET is equivalent to the conversion from jave to c#. Both share familar syntax but uses vastly different librares with vastly different quirks.

While C# is case sensitive, it does elminate many of the problems between trying to shift from VB syntax. The two most notable are use of object reference variables and the use of the "dot" syntax for accessing members.

For some people going C# may be more productive as they will learn the dotNet approach instead of trying older VB6 techniques. For example short for integer, the lack of control arrays, the lack of bounded arrays, etc.

What I find inexcusable about MS is the fact that .NET clearly can support a myriad of languages. There was no reasons to provide a VB6.NET other than lack of foresight or greed. It is obvious that nobody on the VB.NET team tried to switch over a vb application of any complexity.

Rob Conley

RE: aggghhh... I'm melting...

Brad McCabe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:50:00 GMT

Don't worry I will be sure to link to you often from my blog to help easy the withdraw.

RE: DataGrid programming...

Giancarlo — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:52:00 GMT

ejemplo combobox y boton in datagrid Vb.net
http://www.doctorcd.8m.com/
en la seccion "Manuales"

RE: It seems referral swapping is the way to go... but you end up signed up for a bunch more sites

Jordan Feldstein — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:30:00 GMT

Hi,

Just poking around and I would like to say that I'm glad you're enjoying RefStop. It's good to know that the time I put into it is making others happy. Good luck finishing your free sites.

-- Regards,
Jordan Feldstein
RefStop.com Founder.

RE: This may seem odd... but people kept asking for it, so here you go...

Oliver Sturm — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:28:00 GMT

And wouldn't it be even easier to get a free <a href="http://www.dyndns.org/">DynDNS</a> (or similar) account?

RE: Scott Swigart responds to Richard Grimes

Anthony D. Green — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:48:00 GMT

You know that argument is still there. I don't see a lot of C# coders complaining about porting their ANSI C legacy code to C#. Is there some big bad man at your job with a gun to your head saying "port". No one says move everything by noon tomorrow or die. Just don't write anymore new software in the aging language from last millenium. Backwards compatability is a cute concept, but at somepoint you have to cut cords and stop dragging bagage around with you. Why are you upgrading at all? Why not just stick in VB6 and never open your mouth? Why must fundamentalists always be so bloody vocal.

Damnit if VB.NET breaks existing VB6 code I defy you to, with a straight face, say that maintaining VB6 code in C# is a walk in the park. Oh and I don't know what point someone was trying to make about reference variables or the dot member access operator but I choose to believe I wasn't the only one who missed it.

Microsoft didn't make VB.NET because of greed. They didn't make it to piss you off. They made it so as not to say "f_ck off", we're making a new cool platform and you can't come. Have fun in VB6. All you curly-brace folk this-way, laugh at the VB coders with their silly inadequate language on your way. They even stopped to bring J++ and C++ on the way. What is it about the way that you percieve the world that prevents you from recognizing when someone cares about you? About the last decade that you've been typing Dim x As Single(not float x;) and typing with reckless abandon with regard to case and typing strings without escaping every backslash. Go learn Java you ingrates.

RE: This may seem odd... but people kept asking for it, so here you go...

Duncan Mackenzie — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:44:00 GMT

Oliver, yep... if that is why they need their IP... some folks want it for game 'lobby' type applications as well...

RE: This may seem odd... but people kept asking for it, so here you go...

Oliver Sturm — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:08:00 GMT

I'm sure I don't know much (or anything, even :-)) about this type of application, but are there applications where I can't type in a computer name instead of a TCP/IP address? If yes, okay, tell the makers to change that. If not... well, a name is always easier to communicate, doesn't change all the time and the service is ready to use. But maybe I'm missing the point here. Not a problem :-)

RE: Just pulled down the CS 1.0 source... now to start working on a migration plan

Jason Haley — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:32:00 GMT

You might check out Robert McLaws utility: http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2005/02/25/380496.aspx

RE: Just pulled down the CS 1.0 source... now to start working on a migration plan

Dave Burke — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:44:00 GMT

Its going to take some time, DM. I spent the day with CS yesterday and seriously don't know whether I'm going to migrate my modified site (which means, migrating the data and re-coding the mods) or whether I'm going to stay with dotText 0.95 and nGallery. I had no doubt I was going to CS once the source was released, but now I'm reconsidering. My first impressions post is here. http://dbvt.com/blog/archive/2005/02/27/1315.aspx

RE: Scott Swigart responds to Richard Grimes

Rob Conley — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:19:00 GMT

You don't see a lot of C coder complaining because Microsoft is still has a Visual C++ that is an upgrade not a replace of earlier versions. In addition the CLR support in C++ is built so that you could intermix legacy code with CLR code.

VB.NET and VB share similarity but then so does C# and Java and there are the same issues trying to port between VB6 and VB.NET and Java and C#.

What makes it terriable in my book is that Java and C# are competitors but VB6 and VB.NET are from the same company.

VB.NET is a good language and the object basic that I always was looking for. But it does little to help me to move on from VB6. I have done two major coversions in the 15 years I have been programming. The first from DOS to VB3 and the second from VB3 to a object oriented VB6 version.

The DOS to VB3 was a major untaking because the original software was written in Rocky Mountain/HP Basic. This meant while all the math code (the software was a CAD/CAM app) was readily transferrable everything else was not.

In constrast the jump from VB3 to VB6 was a lot easier, the steps were a lot more predictable because I could convert one subsystem at a time from the older array/type based data storage to the new object oriented/collection classes setup.

I have been working with VB.NET since it was released in order to learn it and prepare for a future conversion. And I found out is like the jump from DOS to VB6. The graphics engine, and a hundred small details have changed.

A first I thought "Ok they added all this stuff this is a price." But now three years later, seeing the work done with other language compling to IL I feel there is no excuse for MS not having a VB Classic.NET langauge.

I can emulate many missing langauge features of VB6 in .NET by constructing classes and using interfaces. It just boggles my mind that MS would FORCE VB6 into a conversion effort or to ditch their old code.

Most work in software is not in making new applications but maintaining old applications. And not maintaining for just the sake of continuing with old tech but refactoring them to take advantage of new techology. With VB.NET any developer of a VB6 app is faced with a stark choice. A choice that a C++ developer is not faced with.

RE: Free stuff?

Mikey — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:52:00 GMT

There's a site for free Playstation Portables too! (I admit, I am fishing for referrals.)

I am looking for 4 more referrals. If anyone is willing to sign up for this, it would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.FreePSPs.com/?r=15352521

Also, there is another Mac Mini site that offers the 1.42 GHz G4 w/ 80 GB HDD for 11 referals. They also offer a free gift (with the sign up of two more referrals, i believe)

http://www.macminis4free.com/default.aspx?r=264612

Please email me if you decide to be one of my referals:

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Mitra — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:16:00 GMT

I looked around and this is the best I came up with in (C# - Application). I had a username and password field box and i wanted the focus to change on ENTER and not TAB. You have to use this for the KeyDown Event handler

private void textBoxUserName_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs e)
{
if ( e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter )
{
this.GetNextControl( this.textBoxUserName, true ).Focus();
}
}

RE: Conga Lines....

James — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:23:00 GMT

Descriptive, informative and maintained site with Gratis and OfferCentric conga lines. Realatively new pages with short lines, even some with top slots open!

www.freestuffcongalines.com

RE: Conga Lines....

James — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:44:00 GMT

sorry - didn't provide a linkable link...

http://www.freestuffcongalines.com

RE: Scott Swigart responds to Richard Grimes

Anthony D. Green — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:08:00 GMT

Maybe this discussion is too shallow. You say this conversion is particularly difficult. Could you offer tons of examples? I'm not saying your issues aren't legitimate so much as that I'm having a hard time imagining them.

How is COM Interop insufficient to your VB Classic .NET? What is it that you were doing in VB6 that you simply can't do in VB.NET (aside array bounds and the whole 20MB download requirement)? Somebody is missing something here and I want to know what.

RE: Halo 2 Stats via RSS... an interesting idea that I think could be improved

Gravity — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:55:00 GMT

to Ksking...

Apparently it is you who have no idea and need to get your facts straight... we all know that ALL of the stats are on the Bungie site. The discussion here is about the RSS feeds, which do NOT include that information.

Back to the discussion...

I agree that if the feeds contained more relevant info, it would be helpful. I would love to see medals, headshots, etc. in the feed. Unfortunately, many people resort to parsing the HTML on Bungie directly... slowing down both sites...

RE: Sick, Sick, Sick

Dave Burke — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:59:00 GMT

Get well QUICK (especially little Connor) and take good care of each other along the way! Of course, those pre-school germs are great to build up the family's immune systems...

RE: Converting from an Integer to an IntPtr

Oliver Sturm — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:09:00 GMT

Well, it wouldn't make much sense to cast an integer to an IntPtr. Casting essentially means that a variable is really of a specific type, but the compiler doesn't know about it, so you tell it by casting. With casting, if the variable in question wasn't really of the type you cast it to, you have a problem. In .NET, the compiler goes to some lengths to find problems with this in advance, in contrast to C (for example) where it will just believe you whatever you say with a cast operator.

A conversion could obviously work, but it wouldn't do anything differently from your sample code. An IntPtr consists of two separate memory allocations: (a) The integer pointed to and (b) the pointer to said integer. So there's obviously no other choice than to construct the IntPtr if you need one. In your sample, the integer variable exists already, if you were to say

x = New IntPtr(5)

the two allocations I was talking about would actually take place at that point.

Another thing worth noting is this: often IntPtrs are used in conjunction with InterOp. There are many API functions you might want to use from .NET that pass in an IntPtr and expect you to put a return value into it. This stems from C, of course, from function signatures like "int myFunc(int * otherRetVal)". The pointer type is used as a reference type in this case and in C it's very easy to put a value into "the integer pointed to by the pointer": "*otherRetVal = 5;" will do the trick.

Now say you have the same thing in .NET, with a method signature (sorry, C#, VB is not my thing :-)) like "int myFunc(IntPtr otherRetVal)". Putting the otherRetVal into the integer pointed to seems tricky now, because you can't directly write to the pointer. Also, you can't simply construct another pointer, because the parameter is not a ref or out parameter. The way to do this is to use a method of the Marshal class:

Marshal.WriteInt32(otherRetVal, 5);

Have fun!

RE: DataGrid programming...

tushar parikh — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:12:00 GMT

hi im trushar
i have proble in datagrid about how to add dropdown ,calendar,textbox in datagrid
how to update,edit and add rows in those data grid .. how to create a blank datagrid in page loade
send me sample code about detail...
tx

RE: Sick, Sick, Sick

Scott Swigart — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:22:00 GMT

Hey, my whole family had that (or something very similar). I ended up with a bad cough that lasted weeks. Fun stuff.

Luckilly, my wife was a public school teacher for 5 years, so she is impervious to all viral infections native to planet Earth. Me, on the other hand, I'm Typhoid Swigart. If quarantines ever need to be instituted, I'd be a good person to start with.

RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Mik — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:05:00 GMT

Ok well 1stly im definatly not a mac person. The fact that they went bsd based makes it OK (still dont get the pre osX fanboys)
The appearance.. i couldnt giv a rats. If a computers main selling point is appearance it makes me worry.
The barebone pcs have been out for ages. Keep in mind they they are BARE BONE.
No cpu, no ram, no drives. U spend $400 on a motherboard in a box. +the rest
Works out to be a bit more than a usual sized system.

The only other thing i wana say is why do u want a desktop computer to be small?
Its not supposed to be portable.
You should have enough room to put a normal sized pc somewhere shouldnt u?

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

sultan mcdoom — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:55:00 GMT

this came from another site and is a much simpler solution
Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)

If KeyAscii = vbKeyReturn Then
KeyAscii = 0
SendKeys "{TAB}"
End If
End Sub

And we all know that by using the KeyAscii = 0 keeps your computer from beeping when you use the Enter key as a Tab.

Now the above code works with about 90% of all the controls, however there are some controls where it just does not work, such as the DatePicker control for one.

RE: DataGrid programming...

Nissar — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:19:00 GMT

How can I put values to a datagrid from a textbox while clicking a button.
And how can specify the title for each column in a datagrid

RE: I need to implement an automated exception report system... it's about time!

Pedro Silva — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:24:00 GMT

That sound like a good way to do it.

Another cool idea might be to try to plug into Dr Watson (I'm not even sure if that's possible, just a thought). That tries to upload a log when an unhandled exception occurs in a program. Might be something worth looking into.

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

MartinJ — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:04:00 GMT

Yep. This is a topic that I'd definitely be interested in learning more about. This would make it easier on an application that I'm writing in that wouldn't need to check that the user is online before sending large message packets to a web server. This would work great since the messages don't need to be sent in sequential order.

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:48:00 GMT

BITS saturates the Internet connection? That has not been my experience, in fact, considering that Windows Update is using BITS 2.0 to download patches. As far as benefit, I've found that when I need to pull down a file, especially a very large one, I like that fact that I can continue using my machine without impact on my network perf (noticable impact that is) and that if I need to 'standby' my laptop and switch locations... or if my network connection drops (damn Comcast!), then my download isn't lost.

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Juan David Gomez — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:37:00 GMT

Dear Paul,

Please don’t listen to those fools; they are a bunch of losers trying to get by the easy way.

I know a lot of “Classic VB” developers who are very happy with VB.NET, for instance you can read all the rave (and I know you have) about default instances back at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?feedbackid=65ff7de1-5075-46f5-89e4-2a11dac20db2
That’s a bunch of VB folks saying “Hey we finally have a Powerful, Clean and Object Oriented version of VB, please don’t let us go back to the “toy language” times when C++ and Java dudes called us “programming queers”.

I know you did a great work on VB 2005 so that the folks that haven’t jump in the .NET wagon yet, can easily migrate, I think trying to relive “Classic VB” it’s a great mistake, please keep all the good work focused on evolving VB.NET

Thanks Paul!!!

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Karl E. Peterson — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:41:00 GMT

> There isn't a similar need for new development on VB6.

Well, there ya have it. You get to wear "The Elitist Badge-of-Honor" this week!

Congrats...

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Juan David Gomez — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:43:00 GMT

Sorry Duncan!!!!

The above was a desperate open letter to "Paul Vick", maybe all the excitement of your post got me confused and I thought I was posting on "his" blog. :$

I'm sure you can pass him my thoughts......

Sorry :(

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Kent Sharkey — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:43:00 GMT

mmmmm

HyperCard....

Loved that tool.

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Duncan Mackenzie — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT

Karl, just to be clear, I didn't say there weren't people who want VB6 to continue, but it doesn't fill the same need that C++ does... the need for a native language that can talk to hardware and the OS. VB6 was not a language like that, and while it may be great in many ways it does not provide a unique set of features that would require the language to continue in the way that unmanaged C++ is required.

Of course, I'm still happy to be awarded any form of prize... so thanks!

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Shane Kretky — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:20:00 GMT

go <a href="http://gambas.sourceforge.net/">gambas</a>!

the newvb

=shane=

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

David Totzke — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:47:00 GMT

Thanks for the kind words. You make a very good point about the need for high-performance graphic software, device drivers, network packet filters and the like. I never really thought of it from that angle. I guess I'm just not as big of a geek as you are :) Although, you have to admit that having your flagship product codebase in a language pretty much seals the deal.

I am also intrigued by your idea for an Access-like tool that writes managed code in the background. Very interesting concept. I love Access for quick departmental utilities and the like. It would be nice if there was a similar front end for .NET. Hey, isn't that what VS2005 is? Perhaps a re-branding is in order. <tongue-firmly-in-cheek>

I am a little disappointed that Karl gave you "The Elitist Badge-of-Honor" this week. I was really hoping to get that one myself.

Maybe next time.

Cheers,
dave

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Karl E. Peterson — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:40:00 GMT

Well, Duncan...

> I didn't say there weren't people who want VB6 to continue, but it doesn't fill the same need that C++ does...

That's not what you said, but I'll give you credit that's what you meant. What you said was there wasn't a need for new development with VB6. Either way, (I'm fairly confident you know that <g>) I disagree. Classic VB provided "anyone" the ability to write COM apps. Even Don Box is on record saying COM will be around for a long, long time. I see no reason why this market isn't being catered to, rather than shunned. It's huge. VB.NET is dying from within. What's the point? If ever there was a language that didn't have a raison d'etat...

RE: DataGrid programming...

Kunal — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:14:00 GMT

Hi,

plz tell me how to convert datagrid tables into graphs...plz...

RE: Odd things are happening with my TV signal...

Eric — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:51:00 GMT

A couple of thoughts...

First, is your splitter a decent quality one? Cheap ones use cheap components and can end up being fairly non-linear, which could manifest itself in strange ways.

Second, the cable should be well-grounded where it comes into the house. It it isn't, it may be picking up a fair amount of interference.

Third, it could just be that you don't have enough signal. You might be able to get the cable company to boost it up some - 8 db is a fairly big drop. Do you have other splitters upstream? That would be bad...

Fourth, it could be cable-related. What kind of cables are you using from the splitter to your system? What kind of coax do you have? Lots of houses are wired with RG59 which is okay but not as good as RG6 (which is what the cable company uses).

Send me a sched+, we can talk about it over lunch.

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Sven Aelterman — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:02:00 GMT

> We need an Access-like tool for .NET...

Couldn't agree more.

Ideal for prototyping, and then we maybe even get to re-use some of the code that was created using prototyping.

Also ideal for small business customers.

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Pasquale Esposito — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:10:00 GMT

Unlike most of the developers who expressed their comments on this post, I do believe that a common mistake is to take for granted that the .NET Framework will succeed to the throne of operating systems, currently held by Win32.

When the COM technology is abandoned by Microsoft, people will have the possibility of thinking about which operating system they should choose. Nowadays, Windows is the only logical choice.

As a VB6 programmer, what I am afraid of is not whether MS will continue to provide its support (there are so many forums dedicated to VB6 that I couldn't care less), but whether my present knowledge will be completely useless when the Win32 API disappears.

Can we be sure MS will not be so stupid as to deny compatibility with Win32 executables in the next versions of its operating system?

If Bill Gates decides to start a new era abandoning the COM technology, many people could opt for Linux as an alternative to something completely new that has not yet been sufficiently tested. That's when Microsoft could lose its monopoly on operating systems.

VB6 is certainly the most widespread programming language in the world but, after the advent of VB.NET, a lot of frustrated VB6 developers have decided to move to alternative languages such as Flash MX 2004 (which also allows you to manage databases), PowerBasic and so on.

A petition I would very much like to move is one encouraging Microsoft to sell the copyrights for VB6 to other software houses, allowing them to release new (COM based) versions of the product.

Similarly, if MS decides to abandon the COM technology, it should either sell the rights for Win32 to another software house or release the entire Win32 code base as public domain.

RE: DataGrid programming...

vinukrishna — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:31:00 GMT

hi im vinu
i have proble in datagrid about how to add dropdown ,calendar,textbox in datagrid
how to update,edit and add rows in those data grid .. how to create a blank datagrid in page loade
send me sample code about detail...
tx

RE: DataGrid programming...

Amit Sharma — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:00 GMT

I want to insert combobox in one of the column into datagrid column

in vb.net

RE: DataGrid programming...

Prabhu — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:54:00 GMT

Dear
i am programer and i want to know , how to control the cell of datagrid as individaul cell. so how can i put ex, textbox in the cell of datagrid and handel the textbox with all events ,by c# if you can please if you know please send me

mail Id:- prabhu_7772003@yahoo.co.in

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Dave Lewis — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:47:00 GMT

I'm intrigued by your idea of Access.NET. I've been thinking myself for quite a while now that a similar tool is needed. What eventialy occurred to me is that this would be an excellent role for SQL Server Express.
With the whole thing about being able to use an .mdf file as a datasource directly instead of connecting to the server and the fact that you can write functions and stored procedures in .NET code, it would seem like the ideal thing would be to include it in Office.NEXT as an alternative to Access.
Maybe still using the Access shell to connect to the files/server (similarly to how you currently can with an .adp) but allowing you to write .NET code against the database instead of VBA. Tie that in with SQL Reporting Services and you have a complete Access replacement/alternative that plays very nicely in the managed world. And has all the power of SQL Server. Now wouldn't that be nice?

RE: Conga Lines....

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RE: First post on the new site...

vern — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:08:00 GMT

Do you have this tool available for public consumption? Please?

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RE: My latest MSDN magazine article is online...

Dan Golick — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:40:00 GMT

Nice article but...

As with most articles on serialization it leaves out the very important issue of versioning.

When we serialize classes (binary or xml) for persistance it is very likely that we will need to read it back with a differnt version than when we wrote it.

In fact I think the framework implementation is a little light on versioning support. The MFC solution required code to serialize/deserialize each member but had good suppor for steering the deserialization based on the version number of the persisted data.

RE: Broderbund Software... and C#

Malaga — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:46:00 GMT

Greetings from Malaga (Spain). Antonio :-)

RE: More on that Halo Armor

BynariDistress — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:13:00 GMT

Trying to get Nightmarearmor to sell you sell you a suit of armor is harder than finding Osama! I've been trying to get ahold of them ever since the first time Tech TV had them on the air. If anyone has any luck, PLEASE tell me what you did. BynariDistress@aol.com

RE: Moving code from VB 2003 to VB 2005... Accessing Shared members from Instances...

Fan — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:32:00 GMT

It also applicable, only with some warnings.

RE: Moving code from VB 2003 to VB 2005... Accessing Shared members from Instances...

David M. Kean — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:55:00 GMT

I remember that you used to be able to do the opposite for some of the early betas for C#, that is, accessing instance members from class reference as long as the method didn't actually touch the instance itself (didn't use this. or Me.). I'm pretty glad that fixed that before it was released...

RE: This didn't take long.... putting your Tivo shows onto a PSP...

Glenn Dewar — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:41:00 GMT

I agree with you Doug - it is crazy.

This is exactly what the RIAA and MPAA want you to have to do - not to buy movies once, but repeatedly in several different formats.

The industry should have to decide - are they selling the physical object or the data contained therein? If they are selling the DVD or Memory Stick, then you should have the right to copy it and distribute it at will - If they are selling the data content, then you should be allowed to make backup copies for personal use only, and to be able to convert the content into any format you chose for your own personal consumption. Further, once upon a time, if you bought a cassette tape and wore it out from playing, you could send it back to the company and they would replace it for free (under the auspice that you already purchased the content). I've been told that if you try doing that with a scratched X-Box game you're out of luck.

Good faith should require the industry to pick one or the other. Barring that, the law should force them to choose.

Then you could convert your favorite movies to play portably andc the industry would have nothing to say.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

SPARTAN#1 — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:29:00 GMT

THIS IS SPARTAN #1 I AM THE BEST OF THE BEST SIR!!!!!!!!!
but seriously where the heck is the armor

RE: DataGrid programming...

Lily — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:45:00 GMT

No answers are being displayed on this page. What should we do to see the answers to these above questions

RE: DataGrid programming...

Mathan — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:40:00 GMT

friend,

I have a problem in datagrid to display total value into textbox from datagrid in vb.net
please reply me

RE: DataGrid programming...

Mathan — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:51:00 GMT

friend,

I have to display total value "sum(datagrid_column_name)" into textbox from datagrid cell.

Another one, can we display the aggregate function into datagrid?
If possible , please reply

please reply me

RE: First post on the new site...

vern — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:19:00 GMT

Are you intentionally avoiding us?

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Grasshoper — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:44:00 GMT

i've found it wroten it down but some piece of crap that shall not be named threw out the site. Im dead serious the site with the orderform and all.

RE: This didn't take long.... putting your Tivo shows onto a PSP...

Dave Kramer — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:57:00 GMT

Hey Duncan,

I've been ranting on this very topic for weeks! I agree that it's crazy. While I suspect Brian's right that UMD will sell in airports and small volumes to people with more dollars than sense, is that a really good business model? Will that propel PSP into the mainstream? Heck no.

I think you're right about PVR to PSP being important. Another component is ripping your DVDs to PSP and, just possibly, a DVD drive for the PSP. I originally posted this latter idea as an April Fool's joke - the DVD into PSP (DiP). ;-) But I think it's plausible and could help make the PSP the iPod-killer it desperately wants to be:

DVD into PSP (joke): http://www.gamestay.com/2005/04/01.html

Perhaps my Rants about the pointlessness of UMD movies will help you in your battle with your friend:

Why UMD will fail
http://www.gamestay.com/categories/blog/2005/03/14.html

UMD movies: 'Hilariously dumb'
http://www.gamestay.com/categories/blog/2005/03/20.html

Killing iPods and eating crow
http://www.gamestay.com/categories/blog/2005/03/24.html#a534

PSP goes to the movies
http://www.gamestay.com/categories/blog/2005/03/28.html

Best,

-=Dave

RE: Removing Word's Formatting from text before pasting into .Text or other apps...

brien — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:33:00 GMT

Why did Microsoft stop developing the Office HTML Filter. This had a convienient "Copy as Html" that filtered out the office redundant garbage and allowed you to paste good html into other editors. AntiTrust?, or is there a different way to do it now?

RE: Reading An Image from the web...

vaibhav dhandarphale — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:59:00 GMT

Greate work. thanks for shearing

RE: Conga Lines....

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RE: Wearing "sporty" clothes today...

Oliver Sturm — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:47:00 GMT

Some problems you are having :-)

RE: DataGrid programming...

Anoop Tiwari — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:25:00 GMT

u will lot of examples here

RE: Wearing "sporty" clothes today...

Pedro Silva — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:47:00 GMT

That's what happens when you make your body do what it wasn't meant for... :)

RE: Wearing "sporty" clothes today...

Steve — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:07:00 GMT

And there I was - wondering how to ask if you'd run out of clean clothes <g/>

RE: Just noticed that the free mp3 players site has the Creative Zen Micro now...

Steve — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:30:00 GMT

Zen looks nice - Victus Wong picked one up a while back that cooed over when he got it.

I'm on the ledge whether to get a HD or Flash player. I want battery life - but I want something a little bigger than 1Gb w/ a rechargeable battery. (don't want much eh?)

RE: Windows Media Player and Visual Studio .NET.... anyone else notice any interaction?

Brian — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:57:00 GMT

I bet if you got your music from msn music you'd have no problems ;)

RE: Windows Media Player and Visual Studio .NET.... anyone else notice any interaction?

Scott — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:05:00 GMT

I have this problem all the time with one of my solutions (fairly large). It is very frustrating. For the messed up references, doing a "Rebuild Solution" sometimes fixes it. "Build Solution" never does. When the build hangs though, I always have to close and restart Visual Studio. Hopefully this won't happen with VS2005.

RE: Windows Media Player and Visual Studio .NET.... anyone else notice any interaction?

Nolan — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:01:00 GMT

With 1GB of RAM there's no way VS should be hanging on a build just because media player is playing.

This is interesting because we've had some really weird caching and build/reference problems with our builds, and almost all of our devs run media player. The people who don't run media player don't seem to get the same issue.

Hmm time for a media player ban :)

RE: Burn CDs right from your .NET code...

MARKEDA CHRISTIE — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:13:00 GMT

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RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

josh — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:41:00 GMT

I've had similar experiences. It's funny how such a small detail can drive a person nuts!

That's a cool little control though, and it demonstrates just how much you can do without too much code.

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

fsg — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:58:00 GMT

couldn't you just make a 1px-height group box with no caption and stick a label out to the left of it?

Thats what I always do.

Of course, I'm a bad programmer.

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

Duncan Mackenzie — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:05:00 GMT

fsq... you could do that, but then you'd have to write code to handle repositioning/resizing when your text changed, the font changed, or the user's resolution changed... might not apply in your apps though, but the resolution change (dpi and/or Large Fonts) is an issue that I see quite often.

Also... it doesn't look quite the same, but it is pretty close... all depends how picky you are :)

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

Brian — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:17:00 GMT

Quick, run and put a software patent on it!

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

fsg — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:19:00 GMT

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I'm not a complete idiot. That IS how alot of people do it in .Net, isn't it?

Btw, good article. I'll probably steal your code and throw it in my controls lib.

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

Scott — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:23:00 GMT

Is it me or is the variable in this declaration unused?
"Dim labelBounds As New RectangleF(0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height)"

I was interested in how the code deals with word-wrapping. I'm still not sure so I'll have to try it out.

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

Duncan Mackenzie — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:46:00 GMT

Scott, you caught me... That variable was something I was adding to handle wrapping.... then I went to lunch :)

These lines can be swapped in for what is in the original post to provide word wrap....

Dim labelBounds As New RectangleF(0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height)
Dim textSize As SizeF = g.MeasureString(Me.Text, f, Me.Width)

g.DrawString(Me.Text, f, b, labelBounds, sf)

Note that the line is always drawn in the middle (vertical) of the full text block, so in this case it will be drawn in the middle of the two lines (or middle of the 2nd line if there are 3, etc...)

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

jf — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:37:00 GMT

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I can't get this too work. It doesn't display a line for me.

RE: Follow up on that label/line control...

jf — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:57:00 GMT

I changed the code in (1) and checked AutoSize in (2). It was already set to False and I had the control stretched out well past the text, but I'm still not seeing the line...I must be missing something obvious.

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

Toph — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:04:00 GMT

Jean Grey does it in one shot

RE: AutoIncrement settings should be applied before filling the DataTable...

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:11:00 GMT

tHIS IS WHAT WE CALL, KICKING IN AN ALREADY OPEN DOOR!

RE: Follow up on that label/line control...

jf — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:20:00 GMT

Thanks for the offer to look at my code, but I finally figured it out. The code was fine. But the FlatStyle on my DividerLabel control was set to System, and I discovered changing the FlatStyle to Standard made the line appear.

RE: Conga Lines....

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RE: Free stuff?

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RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

josh — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:57:00 GMT

Those guys are really, really cool.

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

abhishek — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:01:00 GMT

made this type of control year ago in vb 6 and vb.not,

RE: Quick Windows Forms Control... a Label with a 3D Line...

ab — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:02:00 GMT

made this type of control year ago in vb 6 and vb.not,

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

Wayne Taylor — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:44:00 GMT

I'm of to go get one! I signed up with them because of your comments!

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

Eric — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:58:00 GMT

Microsoft posted a list of hosts offering ASP.NET 2.0 Hosting at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/hosters/

Here is a link to the golive license: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/golive/

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

josh — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:49:00 GMT

Any host can get on that list, if they give up $10,000.00 each year to be a 'Featured' host.

RE: Conga Lines....

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RE: Conga Lines....

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I joined these and have gotten 3 free items. And no, I'm not the mod.

RE: Get the details on Refactoring in VB 2005 from Cory Smith...

Rory Becker — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:01:00 GMT

Holy SH** thats cool. Mark Miller Rocks

RE: Coding4Fun, the site....

wtt@kryptos.co.uk (Wayne Taylor) — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:47:00 GMT

Intresting, I've noticed that there is a "What I'm Listening To.." option in the new MSN Messenger version 7.0, didn't you first do that as another coding4Fun colum for attaching "What I'm Listening To.. " to your blog entrie..?

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

tom — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:15:00 GMT

Actually, that's not true. The fee is for being listed on the asp.net site. The links above are part of MSDN and hosters listed were invited to participate in offering .NET 2.0 Beta 2 hosting.

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

Ricky — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:50:00 GMT

Any host can offer ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2.

You don't have to be 'Invited'.

Those 3 hosts ARE 'featured' hosters and did pay MS $10,000.00 per year to be 'Featured'.

They basically paid to be on that list.

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

Eric P — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:54:00 GMT

'Tom',

Are you trying to say that ONLY those hosts can offer ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2?

Either you are trying to blow smoke, or are sadly mistaken.

What company do you work for again?

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

Eric P — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:04:00 GMT

Tom,

Why not email someone at MS and ask what it takes to get on that list.

The response you will get is:

-----------------------------
The hosters who appear in that list are members of the ASP.NET Hosting Advantage program at the ‘Featured’ level. Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/aspnethost/default.asp to sign up for the program and email asphost@microsoft.com to inquire about the featured level.

Thanks
-----------------------------

Just so you know, the 'Featured' level cost $10,000.00 per year last time we checked.

RE: Server Intellect now has Beta 2 hosting!!!

tom — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:44:00 GMT

Easy folks. I never said only those hosts listed can offer .NET 2.0 Beta 2. Since Duncan has pointed out that Server Intellect is offering it, and they're not on the list at the link provided by Eric, that's obvious. I only said that those hosts were invited to participate in offering hosting for Beta 2. Again, I think this is pretty obvious as I'm sure those 4 hosts are not the only "featured" hosts. As for being "featured" hosts and the fee, you may be right. However, I was under the impression that a listing on ASP.NET was part of the Hosting Advantage program. I suppose that's what I get for thinking...

RE: DataGrid programming...

sudeep — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:18:00 GMT

how to record save into database from datagrid satected item

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

Jess — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:32:00 GMT

Hi everyone, it's early and I googled (loosing weight on a budget) because I'm desperate at this point. And my lack of motivation is frightning. I'll tell my story. I'm 33yrs old. My weight for most of my life had been 110-115lbs. then I gained about 10 lbs. due to excessive drinking (we're talking beers with every meal)Obviously I had much more than a drug problem. I sobered up and due to no alchohol intake alone I started to lose weight.....alright also soon after went to an awful heartbreak...and we all know what a help that is. I went to an outstanding 100-105lbs. I was getting up early and riding my bike to the lake and back, and when I came home from work I'd do it again. Hardly wanted to eat. Mind you I'm only 5ft tall, so this weight was great, although I was not achieving this in a healthy way. I never felt better as far a my ego goes. I felt desirable and sexy. That's a great feeling. But I was alone and it was easy to go to bed without dinner. Like my daddy used to say, if you're hungry and there's nothing to eat do like dogs do and just go to sleep, and tomorrow is another day. Fast forward about 3 yrs. and I did the unthinkable. I met someone online fell in love and went to Canada, where 2 women could marry. Little by little my weight creeped back up......she cooks very well and I love to eat(when I'm happy) I was introduced by a co-worker to weightwatchers. And got motivated as hell ,she had lost 40lbs and had kept it off for over a year now. I was doing okay, when my father's long term illness due to nicotine reached an end. This changed my whole life. My wife and I moved in with my mom....whom I adore. Were all pretty happy. My mom and I show it more though. In over 1 yr. I've managed to get myself to 145-150lbs. from a size 6 or 8 to a 12 or 14. I have a fit if I'm changing clothes and my wife's eyes arent closed.(she hates this) I got hooked on bearclaws from starbucks, sometimes I'd get 2 or even 3 at a time. Big junkfood based lunch and big dinners with my favorite 2 women in the world. I eat bread with everything. This leads me to today. I'm currently going to sleep betwee 830-900pm(I know we don't have kids, so I can) Get up shortly after 5am I'm one of those weird morning people.
what led me to my desperation?
1.) my cholesterol is 212
2.) My belly is splitting in 2 parts.
3.) I itch, probably from my skin stretching.
4.) stretch marks (never had children either)
5.) 34-C is the past the present is 36-D( and it's tight)
6.)My clothes don't fit.
7.) My thighs are sore from rubbing against each other. (they burn)
8.) I'm depressed.
9.) Butter pecan sometimes 2 generous servings in 1 day.
We have a treadmill, I'm gonna get on it right now and I plan to change my intake. I'll give my brutally honest report ina week.
Thank you for reading this.

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

Mikkel Skou — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:28:00 GMT

This is of great interest. Uploading of large files from a client to a sever is a emerging need in many industries.
I am looking for a simple way to program uploading of files over http/s using Bits 1.5/2.0 in C#.

RE: Darth Potato Head... very odd.. but that won't stop me from ordering one :)

j_brisby — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 04:35:00 GMT

He's more machine now than potato -- Jon Stewart.

RE: DataGrid programming...

Gemballa.net — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:00:00 GMT

First of all learn you english, and second do it your fucking self

RE: DataGrid programming...

shastfoolady — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:40:00 GMT

i want to have cobobox in datagrid in vb.net

RE: Wearing "sporty" clothes today...

Michelle — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:00:00 GMT

Hello,
On my 40th birthday I was very over weight (obese) and a smoker. I started running for the first time in my life. I joined a running group to learn to jog, then did a 5k, then a 10 mile Army race, then a marathon. After 2 years of this, my feet were killing me so bad, I had to see several doctors.

The short version - try orthodics or shoe inserts, this is suppose to help the foot with arch issues. Unless of'coarse you just need an excuse to wear jogging clothes to work.

RE: AutoIncrement settings should be applied before filling the DataTable...

bob — Mon, 02 May 2005 08:21:00 GMT

wait for update

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

joseph — Sat, 07 May 2005 10:27:00 GMT

i have 3 minutes left in galley but, have for guys left to rescue in the ship, and i have it saved there, am i done for, do i have to start all over since its impossible for me to beat

RE: Alienware adds another reason to buy their PCs... Star Wars themed PCs

zzz — Tue, 10 May 2005 19:43:00 GMT

The white thing on the lower half of the pictures seems to catch the attention. And it looks like something that could be sports related. I don't see how the white thing relates to star wars? Perhaps it doesn't look like that (just like those mirror cases where the mirror looks blueish instead of mirror effect).

RE: Alienware adds another reason to buy their PCs... Star Wars themed PCs

Duncan — Wed, 11 May 2005 10:20:00 GMT

The white part on the bottom is part of the cooling system I think... though it is mostly cosmetic... it is a standard feature of the base alienware case

RE: Conga Lines....

KRIS — Mon, 16 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT

Here is a new site that has just been put up - short lines and a lot of interest.

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/allcongalines">http://www.geocities.com/allcongalines</a>.

I have had good luck with other conga lines - they work best if you get in at the beginning.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

one rep tired of all your bitching and abuse — Tue, 17 May 2005 18:41:00 GMT

I am so tired of all you stupid consumers bitching about shit that doesn't really matter, this is a small portion of all I hear from you all day whaaa! my phone dont work! whaaa! my DSL dont work whaaaaa! You owe me free phone service becuase i'm a self rightous loser on disabilty who really cant afford it becuase I wont get up off my fat lazy ass and actually get a job that a chimp can do so the government subsidizes me through the "lifeline" benifit. Whaaa I have a residential line that I use for my business becuase i'm to cheap to pay for an actuall business line and you shut it off becuase i didnt pay my bill for the last 4-6 months but I cant pay you if my phone dont work. Whaaa my (insert favorite governmnet entity) check didnt come in so i cant pay my bill this month even though i havent paid it in the last 3 months it's not my fualt becuase i wont get off my fat lazy ass to better myself and my surroundings... Geez you people suck do you know what we do at work when we get you on the phone? we mock you we laugh at you we find crap that can be disconnected so you will suffer we laugh at your pain, we think it's funny honestly not bullshittin ya here you all are the one's who suck becuase abusing me becuase of your inaddaquacy boy it sure must be a nice view from on high like that!

RE: Added some forums to discuss free sites, congas, etc....

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RE: Don't let MiniMac envy get you down :)

Donald — Wed, 18 May 2005 07:07:00 GMT

A few weeks ago I bought a 4XEM BBPCBK. This thing is sweet. I'm not not into Macs but when they brought out the Mini Mac I thought I would look into it. But I found this site http://www.4xem.com and they sell small pc's just like the Mini Mac but they take a Pentium 4. I fixed this thing up and its running really sweet. It's great for gaming, me and some buddies always get together and have LAN parties. Now I don't have to lug a big pc case and CRT monitor. I bought myself a nice 17" LCD and the BBPCBK so thats another side point. I'm going to look into overclocking it and maybe I will post my results here if anyones interested.

Dld

RE: DataGrid programming...

Harish — Wed, 18 May 2005 17:35:00 GMT

Hi my name is Harish
I need some help for putting combo box in Datagrid in VB.net

I also need to know how to program .

Thanks
my email is ham4242@yahoo.com

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

Ben — Wed, 18 May 2005 18:19:00 GMT

Thanks for your blog - having precisely the same issues myself today.

Actually, perhaps a bit worse. Im using setter properties, and for some reason when converted to C# they require 2 parameters - the original set value, and something else (type object)...I have no idea what?

RE: DataGrid programming...

Mark F — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:43:00 GMT

can anyone tell me how to put images into datagrids using ASP.NET?

RE: Good site if you are into the same things as me... digital media, games, gadgetry...

Joshua — Sun, 22 May 2005 09:20:00 GMT

I need cheats for chapter7 in spiderman2 the game please give me them.

RE: Conga Lines....

CongaMate — Sun, 22 May 2005 11:50:00 GMT

We've done a full automisation of the congaline!

<a href="http://www.congamate.com">http://www.congamate.com</a> - it's fast, free and fair. We allow people to signup, join the congaline and as soon as they are verified, they are added to the conga. When the next person joins, the have the same chance of getting the next referral as anyone else! It's completely random.

RE: Conga Lines....

CongaMate — Sun, 22 May 2005 11:51:00 GMT

ah well, that should read

http://www.congamate.com

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

Armando — Tue, 24 May 2005 10:21:00 GMT

Hey, i got a problem, when I try to open the document I noticed that the winword process is fired but I can't see the word document opened. My code is exactly the same as the one above. any Idea?

RE: Some thoughts on "Classic VB"

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 17:57:00 GMT

I'm always thrilled when M$ apologists write about how superior VB.NET is. It was so superior that of the 3 Classic VB programmers I used to know, 2 jumped onto the Java bandwagon (1 is still happily there, the other has left programming) & the other one switched over to VBA. I guess they just couldn't handle learning a "superior" language.

RE: Added some forums to discuss free sites, congas, etc....

Jack — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:44:00 GMT

I've tried it, very good site, probably the best

RE: Ok, Matt Warren is just starting to freak me out...

matt — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:43:00 GMT

cheese

RE: Ok, Matt Warren is just starting to freak me out...

matt — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:44:00 GMT

matt is like cheese

RE: Ok, Matt Warren is just starting to freak me out...

matt — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:45:00 GMT

matt tastes like cheese

RE: More on that Halo Armor

f in a — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:24:00 GMT

how much dose the armor cost

RE: Stuck on a problem opening vbproj or csproj files...

c#user — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:53:00 GMT

how edit .csproj file

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Scarface — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:22:00 GMT

I would like to buy the armor myself but for $3,500 dollars.....I'd just rather daydream.

RE: DataGrid programming...

Nesar Ahmad — Fri, 27 May 2005 10:37:00 GMT

Hi
I am an indian from kuwait need a code in VB.NET that how to add a combobox and checkbox in Datagrid control as I am new and have just started VB.Net. If you please do for me i shall be highly thankful for you.

Thanx
email: nesarsoni@hotmail.com
nesar@swiftel.com

RE: my first fitness 'Boot Camp' ends, and another begins...

Joshua Hayworth — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:54:00 GMT

What is the name of the fitness club that offers this class?

Is it actually called "The Pro Club"? Is it a local? or a chain?

I was just curious...

Joshua

RE: DataGrid programming...

Rizwan Alam — Tue, 31 May 2005 04:36:00 GMT

i want to without database fetching column build in datagrip

RE: Looking to write for MSDN?

Sreejath S. Warrier — Tue, 31 May 2005 23:13:00 GMT

Hi,
The hyperlink for the submissions to MSDN mag has an extra word "Another" at the end of the link.
This causes it to 404 when clicked, though copy paste works.
Regards,
Sreejath

RE: Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Yoeri — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:34:00 GMT

Hi there,
I'm really helped with your example, but I want something more! ;)

I'm working on a project to use a lpt1 port to steer an antenna rotor around, the compass I want to use to display the current location and the new location with an arrow from the center to the degrees.

So how can I get a line from the center to the southwest for example?

Just started with VB.net so any help is welcome....

Cheers!
Yoeri

RE: my first fitness 'Boot Camp' ends, and another begins...

josh — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:20:00 GMT

The Powerhouse Gym I go to has a similar class, structured like basic training. I haven't attended it myself but I hear it is quite good.

It is amazing what having other people around can do to motivate a person during a workout. I'm glad to hear it was worthwhile!

RE: DataGrid programming...

Joe Mamma — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:18:00 GMT

First of all: you bastards learn english, second do it your fucking self ya crybaby bitches!

RE: The Spouse Acceptance Factor

Kevin Dente — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:18:00 GMT

You've got to give it up to TiVo on this one - their stuff just works. One of the reasons I haven't been gung-ho on switching to HD is because there isn't a great, reasonably priced TiVo based solution there. I'm starting to look at Myth as a potential option once I go down the HD route.

From what I've heard about cable company-provided PVRs, there isn't much to like there (with the possible exception of the Microsoft Foundation based solutions, which are supposedly OK). I'm looking forward to when the Comcast/TiVo partnership bears fruit, and we can have the best of both worlds (if you're a Comcast customer, anyway).

RE: The Spouse Acceptance Factor

josh — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:56:00 GMT

Yeah it's tough. I find myself at odds with my Media Center (2005) from time to time. It is not nearly as bad as the original release was for needing a keyboard and mouse hooked up, but every now and then you do need to type or click around in the standard windows interface and the ol' remote just doesn't cut it. I ended up installing VNC (http://www.realvnc.com) on my Media Center so I can take care of most of my non-remote input needs. Out of curiousity, what hardware are you running your Media Center on? I ended up using a Shuttle chassis with a P4 3 GHz and 512 MB of RAM, but it still seems to lag from time to time.

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Scooter — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:25:00 GMT

http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/?r=18697218

RE: The Spouse Acceptance Factor

Steve — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:11:00 GMT

Yup - totally hear ya - I had the same thing happen last year:
http://www.furrygoat.com/2005/02/critical_mass_t.html

Wife loves the Tivo, booted MCE out the door. She refused to "boot the TV'.

RE: The Spouse Acceptance Factor

Roman — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:41:00 GMT

I thought I'd look it up on wikipedia. I didn't find anything on SAF, but I did come across a link about "technology acceptance model", which included a rather clinical description of the phenomenon you described:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model

I did a little more digging and came across this site with mounds and mounds of research on the topic, primarily related to business:
http://www.guuspijpers.com/TAM.htm

Steve's wife's refusal is poignant in the distinction between amount of understanding desired by users. In IT, the booting process is overlooked as something that is automatic and part of the process of starting a PC. It's somewhat analogous to the checklist pilots go through at every stage of a flight. Even though everything is done automatically (find the bootsector, load the OS, etc), a software engineer (in a similar role as an airline pilot) often wants to be informed of this process when needed for their tasks. But that masks the fact that to a non-technical person this is all gobbledeegook and irrelevant to their task.
Passengers don't need to know how much fuel is in each wing. While all the plane setup occurs, passengers do their own relevant tasks (boarding, seating, eyeing flight attendants, feeling nervous, etc), which have nothing to do with technically being able to get the plan off the ground. When was the last time passengers were accepting of flight delays? Ground staff can tell waiting passengers the exact technical reason why a plane is 3 hours late (a plane I was to fly on once had lost its air-conditioning system and ended up being replaced by a different plane), but acceptance will not be by all. Airlines know this and have staff trained to deal with the inevitable user backlash to try and keep the customer. A lot of these "acceptance-factor" interactions apply to activity like the boot process on high-tech devices. Users don't care why it doesn't work. When a Media Center PC breaks down and incurs user backlash, what happens? it gets replaced (in the cases above with TiVO).

Doing technical things like eliminating the causes of user rejection is only one step towards successful device adoption. Airlines and trains still have flight delays after 90+ years of commercial operation. The accepted (and presumedly successful) companies are the ones who get their customers to accept these problems without rejecting the service (or device).

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

Prashant Nayak — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:43:00 GMT

Hi,
What's the best way from C# perspective to open a word document in both conditions, one in which user has already opened a Word app and another when no word app was running?

Looks like there is no best way to do this. We are currently using the following code.

<code>
Type typWordApp = typeof(Word.Application);
if (typWordApp!=null)
{
try
{
WordApplication=(Word.ApplicationClass)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject
("Word.Application" );
WordApplication.Visible = false;
}
catch
{
//Ignore the COMException if there is no existing WORD application running.
}
finally
{
if (WordApplication == null)
{
try
{
Type t = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application", "localhost");
WordApplication = (Word.ApplicationClass)Activator.CreateInstance(t);
WordApplication.Visible = false;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception("Create Instance failed [Word.Application].",ex);
}
}
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
</code>

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

Duncan Mackenzie — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:18:00 GMT

I believe that code above is the best way to do this... it is the C# equivalent of the standard way I have always used to do this... try GetObject() and if it returns nothing, go with CreateObject...

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Andrew Storrs — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:07:00 GMT

I loved that book. Thanks for the memory. :)

RE: Fake URLs in emails and web pages...

Phil Weber — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:34:00 GMT

Duncan: The technique you describe is known as "phishing," and there are indeed browser plug-ins available to unmask spoofed URLs, e.g.: http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/

RE: Fake URLs in emails and web pages...

AD — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:53:00 GMT

if outlook and all other email clients would start doing it, then phishers would start putting little images with url text in them

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Aaron Robinson — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:14:00 GMT

I'd just feel bad beating you on that auction, though...

I'm going to have to give my mother a ring and see if she can find it in all my old stuff.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Jason Bock — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:45:00 GMT

Oh, man! I LOVED that book when I was growing up.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Duncan Mackenzie — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:45:00 GMT

Thanks Aaron! :)

RE: Halo 2 Stats via RSS... an interesting idea that I think could be improved

Doobius Bluntman — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:36:00 GMT

How do you submit a game idea to Bungie, as in a game variant on halo 2

RE: Fake URLs in emails and web pages...

Nic Wise — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:14:00 GMT

You can do this, with CSS. Well, you can do it in all modern browsers EXCEPT IE. it's something like: a:after or something like that. Then, just apply a style sheet to every page (using it as an override) and bingo :)

RE: DataGrid programming...

Betty — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:53:00 GMT

Buenas tardes

Me podrian ayudar necesito realizar una pequeña evaluacion de preguntas en visual basic.net y necesito trabajar con datagrid y checbox y desde ahi seleccionar las respuestas y mediante eso realizar una evaluacion y mostrar cuantas preguntas fueron acertadas
Gracias por la atencion prestada

RE: Somewhere inside me... an audiophile just died.

Chris — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:11:00 GMT

I, too have/do experience(d) this problem. I weep for our fatigued ears...

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Faisal Hussain — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:12:00 GMT

http://iPodShuffleGiveaway.co.uk/index.php?referral=47753

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Faisal Hussain — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:12:00 GMT

If you want a free ipod shuffle just join to the website and complete an offer and refer 4 friends for a 512mb or 6 friends for a 1g player. can you believe this crazy offer
http://iPodShuffleGiveaway.co.uk/index.php?referral=47753

RE: DataGrid programming...

Farooque — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:21:00 GMT

Hi I am looking for the datagrid code, I would really appreciate it, if you could please email me at zindagi11@rediffmail.com
and also can you tell me how do I display the total at the bottom if one of the rows in the grid has to be calculated.

Thanks,
Farooque.

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

Walt Ritscher — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:11:00 GMT

My doctor ' prescribed' (recommended would be a better word) glucosamine for the joints in my finger. After taking them for six months I'm relatively pain free. Certainly worth trying.

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

Ed Taylor — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:42:00 GMT

I have a 12 1/2 year old German Shepherd. She was really having some problems getting around in her old age, really stiff in the morning, etc. We got a new Shepherd puppy and the breeder said she was giving the puppy a certain suppliment (Nupro) so we ordered some. To keep peace, we wanted to make the puppy's food and the older dog's food smell about the same, so we started giving the older dog the same suppliment. Three or four months after we started the suppliment, that old shedder started moving better, with obvious less discomfort. A close examination of the contents of the suppliment showed that it contained glucosamine. She does not have dysplasia or anything, just old age was setting in on her. She has been on it a year and despite her age, she is still showing less morning and general stiffness. She has no idea, of course, what she is getting, so it isn't a placebo effect. I don't know if it is the glucosamine, or something else, but we will keep her on the suppliment.

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

brett w — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:03:00 GMT

I used a G & C formulation and had great success. I was able to play soccer with minimal discomfort even after a third operation to remove shredded meniscus. I used a liquid formulation that is available online. They now have a formula with 1500mg of glucosamine for that extra boost. I tried capsules from the grocery store, but didn't get the same results.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Adam Duggan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:17:00 GMT

That book rocked! Thanks for reminding me about it. Luckily our library had a (dog-eared) copy, so I went and checked it out to read to my daughter. Anyone remember the little cardboard model telescope that came with it that you got to put together?

RE: ASP.NET / VB sample going against the Amazon web services...

jahan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:54:00 GMT

this is my first mail that i want to say i need to create that application for my project so plz help me bec i am new

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

Greg Robinson — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:25:00 GMT

BUY THEM now! I have chronic knee pain, it's hereditary for me. I had surgery on my left knee almost 2 years ago. I started taking Osteo-BiFlex post surgery. I am close ot pain free now. I pick them up at Costco, take two in the morning.

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

Greg Robinson — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:26:00 GMT

Oh yeah, our 2 older dogs get them too, they are much more active now.

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

bob — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:44:00 GMT

Sign up and claim your free ipod shuffle!!!
This giveaway works on a refferal service where companies make money through advertising.
4 refferals for 512mb or 6 for 1gb

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Matt Williams — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:23:00 GMT

Ack, wish I had seen this post a few weeks back. After TechEd I drove down to Miami to the house I grew up in. I am sure that book is still there and I used to love it scanning through it.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Eric — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:19:00 GMT

Yes that book was awesome. I'm going through year old email, of course the link is gone, don't even know what it was too, but the picture of this book caught my eye. I have always moved this book with me through the years, as I always thought it was a good reference. My favorite picture was the one where it showed the stars that make up the big dipper, and how they are each at different distances in space. I'll never forget that picture.

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

zanzibar — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:08:00 GMT

were can i get it?

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

matt — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:08:00 GMT

Nice reference to the Xanth series. Centaur Aisle is the first "Real" book I read and I was hooked on reading (and Piers Anthony) from that day forward.

RE: DataGrid programming...

MEeShell — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:09:00 GMT

I need help on how to use SQL to select data from an existing DataGrid and put it into a new dataGrid?

email: michellelai27@yahoo.com

RE: Received my first book from Zooba.com today...

Tom Bihn — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:49:00 GMT

I was moderately pleased with the service until recently. First, the selection:

If you are female, you will probably like Zooba's selection. If you are male, well, there are a few good titles, but nothing that will keep you coming back after the first 3 month period.

As far as the free shipping and handling, this is false advertising. I've had half a dozen e-mails to the "customer service" trying to tell them that they shipped me a book and didn't pay for postage. I had to go to the post office for a postage due of $1.84. This isn't a huge amount, but when it is supposed to be free, it is very annoying. I returned to sender and e-mailed their "customer service" that evening informing them to expect the book. Now they are telling me they will be charging me for the shipping to return it!!!!

They have no phone number to speak with them directly and I am starting to believe this may be a scam to get you in and after 2 of the 3 books get you to cancel your membership. If anything, they don't have their act together.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

i dont know — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:11:00 GMT

I WANT SOME GODAMN MASTER CHIEF ARMOR

RE: DataGrid programming...

Hello — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:01:00 GMT

I'm using visual basic.net, may you help me to put a combobox in datagrid and put all the data from my database.

please send me sample code or program about this.

email: suckmypride@yahoo.com

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

Tony Arthur — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:18:00 GMT

Duncan, Are you considering writing an article on BITS upload? If yes, when?

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

kreegar — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:58:00 GMT

yeah it sucks I work at verizon dsl and let me tell ya they don't train us for crap very few people here really know what's going on and further half of the "people"here are from some backwards african country and didn't even have electricity in thier homes before some stupid christian brought them over here so thier stone age selves can help you with your dsl. And if you live in the 718 area code you won't ever have service because they sold more service than they have the capacity to actually carry. BTW the secret number to get into verizon without a lot of waiting is 866-268-4630 then hit 1114.

"thank you for call verizon dsl we're here 24 hours a day, or you can reach us at dslstart.verizon.net have a nice day"

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

Bill — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:02:00 GMT

The demo doesn't even work, how do we know the tool works.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

RA — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:14:00 GMT

Look here: www.briarsarmor.com

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

joseph — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:30:00 GMT

x-men legends is a fun game and addictive but i got to the muir base prox half way thought the game and after you complete the magma mission there is suppose to be a cutseen taking you to the x-mansion, the cutscene did not start for me and now im stuck in a little building with aboustly nothign to do i tried talkign to everyone and walking around the place for hours but nothing can be done. i plyed that game for days and it has een nothing but a waste of my time.

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

nick — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:43:00 GMT

does the executable work for people without the framework?

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:59:00 GMT

Nope, the framework is still required

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

nick — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:42:00 GMT

so how do i compile it to run on other .net free platforms?

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:53:00 GMT

You can't ... you can create an install that will put the .NET Framework onto the target (client) machine, but it is not possible to run the application without the framework.

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

nick — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:59:00 GMT

hmm. ok thanks

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

Raj — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:31:00 GMT

Hallo
Can someone help me to show on how to compile a vb.net file using the command line. I am a very basic beginner working on this compilation process. Help me out on how to do it, the commands to do it and where should I type the commands.

Looking forward to your help. Thanks in advance.

Please mail to raja@gunasekaran.net

RE: Some thoughts on losing weight from someone who doesn't really know that much about it...

jennieo — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:31:00 GMT

I just happened to find this doing a search on alchohol and sugar content/dieting. Anyways, I'm going to start the SBD (south beach diet) this Sunday. My stats are 30, 5'7", about 8 lbs shy of a deuce. But no one ever thinks I weigh as much as I do. Well, being single and non-homebody-ish...I go out a lot. Where do I go? Bars, pubs, restaurants with friends, karaoke'ing, etc.... What do all of these places have in common - alchohol. So me & a couple of my gal pals are going to start and cut out ALL alchohol. Don't know how we'll do, but we shall see. Everyone has told me that SBD does totally work if you just eat the foods it says to eat. I'm getting rev'd up for this thing to start! I am a member at a gym and I regularly swim. I lag on the weight lifting though. I think it's going to be fun! For those of you wanting to start - get a friend or two to do it with you - it'll make it that much easier and the support will be a BIG help! (typed on 7-15-05 @ 1:30pm - Chicago time).

RE: DataGrid programming...

Rahul Sumant — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:59:00 GMT

I'm using visual basic.net, may you help me to put a combobox in datagrid and put all the data from my database.

please send me sample code or program about this.

email: suckmypride@yahoo.com

RE: DataGrid programming...

Rahul Sumant — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:59:00 GMT

I'm using visual basic.net, may you help me to put a combobox in datagrid and put all the data from my database.

please send me sample code or program about this.

email: rahulsumant2001@yahoo.com

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Bowleo — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:48:00 GMT

Hi, if anyone wants a free alienware laptop heres the link for my refferal

http://alienwaregiveaway.co.uk/index.php?referral=12097

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

bipin — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:04:00 GMT

i got solution for this from http://dotnetforums.com/showthread.php?t=554

/----------------------------
The problem is that your IIS server doesn't have the appropriate rights to launch a Microsoft Word-document DCOM object.

First you have to find out the user or group your IIS server runs as. IIS 6 normally runs as "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE". Second, you can start the tool "DCOMCNFG.EXE" (Component Services). Go to Console Root --> Component Services --> Computers --> My Computer --> DCOM Config --> Microsoft Word-document --> properties --> security --> Launch Permissions --> edit. Add the appropriate user/groep, like "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE". Now it should work.
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bipin

RE: C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet

actracy — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:20:00 GMT

did you ever get a copy in vb.net if so can I get a copy?

Thanks,
actracy@netzero.net

RE: DataGrid programming...

Shirsho — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:21:00 GMT

this page sucks, lots of problems but no one's bothering to answer........

RE: COM Port Programming in .NET

M Iqbal — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:50:00 GMT

Respected sir,
I am currently in M Tech (IT) Final year. I have to do a project as my cirruculum part . I have much more interest in .net an wishing to develop a project in weather monitoring
Please kindly guide me to program a parallel/serial Port
Waiting for your kind guidence.
your's sincerly
Iqbal
iqbal_hawre@linuxmail.org

RE: DataGrid programming...

lokesh — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:44:00 GMT

pls mail me the code for the above ,i have a similar situation to handle.pls mail me at lokeshb@exchangenext.com

RE: DataGrid programming...

samer — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:57:00 GMT

how i can add to datagrid
multi record for one item

RE: X-Men Legends is great...

craig — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:14:00 GMT

I love this game. There are a few bugs (like boxes and health packs disappearing into walls) but it's been very engaging and addictive. Keep wanting to see what happens next.

Anyhow, I am stuck also on the ship (the galley?) trying to save the 8 crewman but the time always run out before I can save them all and the ship sinks. Anyone have any advice how to get around this? Did I waste too much time on the other levels of the ship? Do I need to go back and reply all those levels while wasting less time?
Anyone have any advice?

RE: Lacing your running shoes... via animated gifs

New Balance Blog — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:00:00 GMT

We've got New Balance tips and stuff here too.

RE: DataGrid programming...

blah — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:29:00 GMT

wow.

RE: Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

Frederic Barthelemy — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:38:00 GMT

I love that book, I can remember checking that more than once as soon as I learned to read--from my elementary school library, I remember almost dropping it once (or did i drop it) because it was at headheight and was really heavy... one of the coolest features in my mind was a multilayered image with seethrough pages... then there were the beautiful pictures and artist renditions... another cool one I remembered were the blastofars (or whatever they were called) that lived on mars ate metal and farted their way around... or am I mixing two creatures?--no, the blastofars were furry and around their feet clustered groups pink and blue spotted little creatures that looked slimy/sluglike but in reminding you more of beanie babies, with their massive eyes, cute even, and then feeling bad when you read the caption and saw on the opposing page an image of one of them farting a blast of flame and sending the littleuns flying, as they had clustered there for the warmth given off from the smelting furnace inside the blastofar's belly, but it had no use for them. then there was this guy with massive ears that could close its ears back entirely around its body, looking like an eggshell, and then this guy that was an ice-skater creature on pluto... or the ecosystem on a gas giant with pterodactyl type creatures, and massive blimps guys, and airbore jelly-fish type creatures... the tree of life according to various religions, an artist rendering of Helios or Ra as the egytians called him riding his golden boat? (with egytian farmers below) / fiery chariot across the sky, then traveling along underneath the world. views of the edge of the flat earth and the ocean pouring off it into space... note, the images that I can best describe were all the artist renderings... :) its kindof hard to describe the vast expanses of beauty in space, the spiral galaxies, the quasars, pulsars, and blackholes... the gas giants, supernovas, brown dwarfs white dwarfs, and Class Sol suns.

What an amazing book... beautiful, made me think and learn alot...

The things you remember after 12 years...

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Bim — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:22:00 GMT

Good luck<i>.</i>

RE: Heading out on parental leave... 10/26/2004 to 11/23/2004

Anita — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:24:00 GMT

I wich you good luck too! nice picture!

RE: More on that Halo Armor

tom — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:45:00 GMT

Nightmare amror studios ran into some trouble with MICROSOFT and they they threatend to sue them unless they ceased production.THATS WHY the sites down.Srry

RE: Fake URLs in emails and web pages...

KM — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:57:00 GMT

Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps you could have the options to "disable misleading links" or "ask before following link" to prevent you from accidentally clicking one. Internet Explorer shows you the destination url in the status bar, is it possible to show the destination url in Outlook?

RE: More on that Halo Armor

Joe — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:49:00 GMT

check ebay

RE: Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

guido.gomez — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:48:00 GMT

Glucosamine is not for every one. It is used mainly by elder people because it helps lubricate their deteriorated joints. You cold give it a try, but must use it at least 15 days. I would recommend you to visit your physician first.

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Reasonable — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:50:00 GMT

I'm not greedy, I just want the laptop! :)

http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=173941

Use my link and you'll go to heaven. Now that's a deal....

RE: Doing interesting things with XSL

lisa@spacefold.com — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:20:00 GMT

>>Out of the full list, display n randomly picked items

How about using generate-id(), which will be pretty random on each run, and then sort by the generate-id()?

RE: Doing interesting things with XSL

lisa@spacefold.com — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:03:00 GMT

Sorry, previous response was dumb. It will give you the same values each time on the same document (although it would be random when the contents of the site changed).

However, something like this will work -- just supply a $seed argument along with your $numberToShow:

<xsl:apply-templates select="channel/item" >
<xsl:sort select="substring(substring-after( position() div $seed ,'.'),3,5)"
data-type="number"/>
<xsl:apply-templates>

... the above assumes a positive/large seed number but you can obviously adapt if you're using a fractional seed number.

>L<

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

Zephman — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:50:00 GMT

all u gotta do is go to DOWNLOAD.COM search for HALO CUSTOM EDITION and vwalla you download the top link for custom edition.

RE: Free stuff?

Monica — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:28:00 GMT

hi, im new to this too and i would appreciate you guys if you'd click on my link :) you'd make a girl really happy! :) thanks!

http://www.freephotoiPods.com/?r=21340365

RE: Some things shouldn't be an impulse buy

anon — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:03:00 GMT

Prehaps it is aimed at the criminal fraternity (for those occasions when you have a corspe in the boot)

RE: Some things shouldn't be an impulse buy

Scott S. — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:52:00 GMT

Possibly it is to distinguish them from other places that say they will cremate the body and then dump it out in the back yard somewhere. Really, I'm not joking! I live in Atlanta. Here's what happened a couple of years back in this fine state. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1825248.stm

RE: Scott Swigart responds to Richard Grimes

Anthony — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:53:00 GMT

> How is COM Interop insufficient to your VB Classic .NET? What is it that you were doing in VB6 that you simply can't do in VB.NET (aside array bounds and the whole 20MB download requirement)? Somebody is missing something here and I want to know what.

It's largely not about not being able to DO it, it's about having to REWRITE it (in our case, millions of lines of code that works fine today).

Sure, we can stay in VB6, but at some point, we will have to REWRITE EVERYTHING in one fell swoop just to get back to square one (having an equal feature set). When we decided to use VB, it was based on a history of stable improvements and easy migration ability. We could add new features gradually, keep current with the OS, and make changes within the same platform. Rewriting from scratch is not financially viable. If we were starting TODAY, obviously we would not choose VB6, but now we are in it (since vb3).

Not that Microsoft owes us VB6 coders anything, but we feel extremely skeptical about moving to a Microsoft technology if they are just going to abandon it -- which is why we have been looking at Delphi and Realbasic (and even Java).

Anybody else have success stories regarding migraing vb6 code to a low-risk platform that won't be dead-ended.

Seems to me, if someone wanted to make a nice profit, they could write a book on "how to convert a VB6 app to _______ (fill in the blank with any language)". I would buy it (if it was complete).....

RE: Getting back into programming after a few years at home with the kids...

Sean Chase — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:54:00 GMT

Interesting. Seems like the job market would be better for a C# developer though. :-)

RE: DateTimePicker and DBNull

Richard Basque — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:47:00 GMT

Hi,
The code posted my Baraholka didn't seem to work properly. The Format should always be DateTimePickerFormat.Custom (so leave it alone) and its only the CustomFormat property that needs to be change. Also this is a string. Here's what worked for me.

'Original Author: Duncan MacKenzie
'Original Source: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/a.aspx?u=http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2003/02/28/3242.aspx
'Modifications
'Date Who Description
'--------------------------------
'01-OCT-2004 CKS Modified original source
' 1. No longer uses Checked property. This means ShowCheckBox property does not have to be set for successful use
' 2. Null date shows blank text instead of greyed out date. This utilises the technique shown by
' Pham Minh Tri http://www.thecodeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/Nullable_DateTimePicker.asp
'-------------------------------
'Nullable and bindable DateTimePicker
'Copied from http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/archive/2003/02/28/152.aspx
'Modified: 9/30/2004 11:26 PM by Baraholka
'Modified again by Richard Basque
'August 18, 2005
'1. Shadowed the Value Property (slight modification)
'2. Fixed the machanics. Didn't seem to work for me. This one takes nulls and binds to the Value property.
'

Option Explicit On

Imports System
Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class DBDateTimePicker
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePicker

'Flag: tells us if Picker currently showing null value or not
Private bIsNull As Boolean = False
'Flag: Show null date in Picker
Private bReturnNull As Boolean = False
'Allows swapping between Custom format and original format of Picker
Private oldCustomFormat As String ' DateTimePickerFormat

#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

End Sub

'UserControl overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub

'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
components = New System.ComponentModel.Container
End Sub

#End Region

Private Sub SetDBValue(ByVal _Value As Object)
If IsDBNull(_Value) Then
Me.bReturnNull = True
'Show null date as space.
'Check if Picker currently showing a Null Date
If bIsNull = False Then
Me.oldCustomFormat = Me.CustomFormat
Me.CustomFormat = " "
Me.Value = Now 'set a default
bIsNull = True
End If
Else
Me.bReturnNull = False
MyBase.Value = Convert.ToDateTime(_Value)
'Date is not null. Restore original date Format
If bIsNull Then
Me.CustomFormat = oldCustomFormat
bIsNull = False
End If
End If
End Sub

<Bindable(True), Browsable(True)> _
Public Shadows Property Value() As Object
Get
If bReturnNull Then
Return DBNull.Value
Else
Return MyBase.Value
End If
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As Object)
Me.SetDBValue(Value)
End Set
End Property

Private Sub DBDateTimePicker_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.ValueChanged
'Immediately permit display of changed date
Me.SetDBValue(CType(sender, DateTimePicker).Value)
End Sub

End Class

RE: DateTimePicker and DBNull

Richard Basque — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:51:00 GMT

oops here's the binding implimentation:
Me.pnlCustomerInformation.dtpBirthDateWithNull.DataBindings.Clear()
Me.pnlCustomerInformation.dtpBirthDateWithNull.DataBindings.Add(New Binding("Value", e.Customer, "BirthDate"))

the e.Customer is custom event. (fyi)

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

verizon suks — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:15:00 GMT

Ok first off...to the guy "one rep tired of all your bitching and abuse"
Your a fag, so shut the fuck up. I pay my bill I have a fucking job and im not fat. So there goes your whole fucking rant...Verizon is the fucking dumbest fucking company there is..begginging of july I order dsl thru verizon...I have verizon phone service ..only phone company in this town.
I order on like the 9 of july they tell me my turn on date is the 1st of aug.
ok what ever.my modem arives via ups ...on the 26 of july same day verizon sends an email to my dial up account diff company. telling me I can install my modem, my dsl is up and running . Great its early ..nope
I install and get everything up and running buy my dsl speed is slower than dial up. It takes a fucking half hour to load the dslstart.verizon home page.so I call the tech dept.After many hours and alot of bullshit they tell me .."ummmm it must be your computer ..it's something wrong with your explorer" So I reformat and reinstall windows xp still same bullshit.
call back diff person.ok lets see ...almost 2 hours later no fix . they issue a trouble ticket, call next day no trouble ticket for my account they never got one.still to this day..I have had only 3 days of actual dsl service trouble free ...they finally figured out its a fucking trunk line its over used and cant handle shit ...so they ordered another trunk line to be installed but they dont know when it will be installed and up and running.I hate verizon...they suck road runner is the best had it for two years with zero "0" fucking problems and they just increased the speed to 5mbs and lowered the price to 40.00 a month...

RE: The Updater Application Block... various additions...

Carel — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:42:00 GMT

Hi Duncan

What do I need to do to get rid of admin rights being required? Admin rights is a requirement to install publisher policy into the GAC - is there any way to get around this? What did you do to get rid of the admin rights requirement?

Carel

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

Justice — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:49:00 GMT

its voila not vwalla...

RE: Hmm... 11:20 pm Sunday Night...

mo — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:21:00 GMT

Halo 2 is carraaaazzzyyy! Get a little pissed off at da freagin mods dough mess up peoples stats.

RE: My experience with GameFly...

me — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:06:00 GMT

Why is he an idiot? As long as he doesnt sell or rent or give massive amounts of copies to others, then whats the harm? I own both copies and retail dvd. I would do what he says until I get to watch, then if I like them I buy them. I dont think the DVD police is gonna knock at your door unless you share them online or give them for free as a party gift or something.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

peru 07 — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:14:00 GMT

mmmmmmmmmmmmm yea i gueess so.......
the only problem that i had about verizon was just that they took long get the modem almost a month.... got really pissed off....

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

peru 07 — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:15:00 GMT

oh ya thanks about ''866-268-4630 then hit 1114.''

RE: More on that Halo Armor

kris — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:17:00 GMT

They did not run into trouble with Microsoft. Microsoft themselves bought most of the armour sold.

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

mark baer — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:25:00 GMT

YES, I need to create an Upload tool for users to upload EXTREMELY large files(yes we have bandwidth). My boss asked me to see about using BITS so I am looking into it. Everything I've found so far is on downloading. I would REALLY like to see something on "uploading".

Thanks

Mark

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

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RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

American — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:41:00 GMT

Check out Verrizon's new scam on their web site. Here is what they're promoting
"Unlimited IN Calling AND Night & Weekend Home Airtime Minutes". The term "Unlimited IN Calling" is used here to mislead people to believe that they can receive calls for free when in fact it just only free when calls are placed between Verrizon's customer.

Their Customer support representative are rude and not professional. Their phone only work in America and only on their network (another reason to get you stuck with their service). Once they got you as a customer they don't care about the service. All the promotion are only available to new customer.

The image of corporate American are full of cheat, lie, and greed. This is typical behavior of corporate America. This trend is not going to stop any time soon so get use to it.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Frank Mc Innis — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:53:00 GMT

Ive trtied every way to get my E mail hooked up No results The computor keeps saying my user name or password is not acceptable .Its too say the least frustrating. Im going to either drop this service or get outside expensive help.

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

eliza — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:13:00 GMT

you folks look like you might be able to help me.

I am trying to save a text document as a word document. All goes well except when I change the font name and/or size it shows on the open documemnt but when I save and close, it reverts to the old font. Any ideas?

RE: DataGrid programming...

Deepu — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:38:00 GMT

Hi,
I am a porgrammer in asp.I have a problem.I am working on datagrid in which i used template for textbox when the user enters values in this text box and goes to another ,this value should be stored in another page .and when that user comes back to previous page the values should be seen .I am able to display values in another page but when user comes back the values are not seen in text box of datagrid.Can anyone help me in doing this.This is urgent.

Thanks
Deepu

RE: Enter Instead of Tab

Matthew — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:06:00 GMT

The trick is to set e.Handled = true before you do anything else !!!

Private Sub txtSearchValue_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles txtSearchValue.KeyPress
If sysEnterEqualsTab = True Then
If e.KeyChar = Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(13) Then
e.Handled = True
Me.ActiveControl = Me.GetNextControl(txtSearchValue, True)
End If
End If

End Sub

RE: What an interesting few days...

Sean Chase — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:32:00 GMT

Years ago I took my (now ex) wife to the hospital for severe stomach pain. It turned out to be a bad flu. Guess it can go either way - better to be safe than sorry.

RE: Media Center Keyboard...

Charlie Owen — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:26:00 GMT

It's already available. I'll be giving them away at PDC: http://blog.retrosight.com/PermaLink,guid,5a3780ae-dc95-460a-9c12-9c66f0c3a873.aspx.

RE: Media Center Keyboard...

AC — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:17:00 GMT

Test drive before you buy. I just returned one because (1) the mouse is unuseable and (2) when sitting at 5', 10', and 20', and when typing something in MS Word, it would miss every other keystroke it seemed. The simple "Hello World, the quick red fox jumped over the brown log" resulted in about 8 missing characters... very disappointing. I'll be going bluetooth for my wireless keyboard

RE: DataGrid programming...

Dasharath — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:26:00 GMT

i am R & D Developer and i want to know , how to control the cell of datagrid as individaul cell. so that i can use it in my project ,by using c# if you know please send me

RE: Media Center Keyboard...

Dunc — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:17:00 GMT

Looks cool
Stumbled onto youre site.. we have the same name :o
Well, mines spelt better - McKenzie :)

FWIW, Im a comp sci student.. Maybe theres something in the name that makes Duncan McKenzies technically minded? :D

RE: More on that Halo Armor

dan strickland — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:43:00 GMT

pathetic humans i have searched far and wide for this armour and still cannot find it on ebay

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Derick — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:49:00 GMT

I say expose Verizon to the media, in that way more people will know that their service sucks, it's not much but it is a stepping stone to damge Verizon's reputaion.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

James Labocki — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:48:00 GMT

It is 9/16/05 and my Verizon online DSL was supposed to be active on 8/26/05. It was active on 8/26/05, but was shut off on 8/27/05 after I complained about getting only 100k down/ 100k up instead of the advertised 3000k down / 768k up! I have called, waited on hold for an hour, and spoken to technical support EVERY day for 14 days. I have been told they will send someone out, but NOBODY ever calls me the day they schedule. When I call and explain to them they NEVER send anyone out I have to tell them the ENTIRE story again ... which never results in anyone helping me! I am speaking to them again right now ... they are ... THE DEVIL!

RE: Creating a VB.NET Windows application using the command line

LazyDev — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:43:00 GMT

I messed up my VS.net VB part - so I had to compile my ASP.net app from CMD prompt:

1. Edit the PATH environment variable to include C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322

2. browse to your webapp directory:
cd Inetpub\wwwroot\VoucherInvoice

3. The execute following (instead of linebreaks - use spaces):

vbc
/recurse:*.vb
/t:library
/rootnamespace:VoucherInvoice
/out:bin/VoucherInvoice.dll

/r:System.dll
/r:System.Web.dll
/r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
/r:System.XML.dll
/r:System.Data.dll
/r:System.Drawing.dll

/r:bin/ML_controls.dll
/r:bin/ML_DataAccess.dll
/r:bin/MetaBuilders.WebControls.DefaultButtons.dll

/imports:System,System.Data,System.Data.SqlClient,System.Configuration,System.Drawing,
System.Web,System.Web.UI,System.Web.SessionState,System.Web.UI.WebControls,
System.Web.UI.HtmlControls,Microsoft.VisualBasic

RE: Have you tried any of these power line based ethernet bridges?

StephBu — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:45:00 GMT

Mileage varies - you need clean powerlines to get best out of them, stuff like fridges/microwaves cutting in cause quite a lot of interference.

Now that WiFi has caught-up / exceeded their performance its a lot less attractive.

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Nemesis — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:00 GMT

http://alienwaregiveaway.co.uk/index.php?referral=19986

RE: More on that Halo Armor

UngainlyFire — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:22:00 GMT

i found a suit from dragon-con on ebay for $17,958.45

RE: More on that Halo Armor

UngainlyFire — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:22:00 GMT

the auction closed tho

RE: VB Futures section up on MSDN...

Geoff Appleby — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:01:00 GMT

Well, you're a cranky pants tonight aren't you? :)

Me, I only have one problem with all this futures stuff being talked about now. While it's cool to see what's coming, and sure, there's a beta (alpha maybe?) download of the linq stuff all ready to go, I want to use it in production code NOW!

RE: VB Futures section up on MSDN...

Duncan Mackenzie — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:00 GMT

Geoff, I feel the same way... I always want to start using the new toys right away... but on the other hand I think that we could (and we will) put out articles and information about Whidbey for another year and still not have provided every bit of useful information that people might need. These things go on in parallel though, so I don't really mind seeing info on the next version, because I know that many other people (especially the folks at MSDN) will focus their efforts on the version that people can actually use to do their jobs. Personally, I'm going to try and ignore talk of post-Whidbey things, so that I can appreciate the enormous set of features that I have available now.

RE: VB Futures section up on MSDN...

Geoff Appleby — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:36:00 GMT

Well, it's also a way to keep the buzz going.

It's fantastic that MS are giving us all these early previews - the CTPs, the blogs where people can talk about upcoming stuff, all that. I'm sure it's been of mutual benefit - probably even moreso for MS, with all the extra free testing ;) But along with that comes a problem with hype. I've been tracking whidbey for about 12 months now. In fact, my first whidbey preview was a talk by Ari Bixhorn at TechEd Oz 2003, and I've been impatient for it since then.

That's primarily 12 months of watching the language changes, the IDE changes, the last minute changes (nullables, for example), writing test code...when it ships, I think all they're going to get from me is a 'well finally!', and a feeling of contentment that I can really start working on upgrading all my apps to the next framework.

But I know a very large portion of the upcoming VB changes (hell, I've sat and read the VB8 spec from cover to cover), I'm pretty clear on what's new in C#2.0, I've played around with a lot of the BCL changes.

Sure, I don't know it all, but I know a lot. Where's my excitement gone?

And hence, here comes LINQ and some early specs on VB9 and C#3.0 to save the day. My mouth is watering again.

But I don't think I can stand the wait again. I almost wish they'd all go silent again, because this large span of time where it's a 'look but don't really touch' policy is painful :)

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Kevin — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:46:00 GMT

Check out this site. www.notebooks4free.net Thanks

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

Kevin — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:46:00 GMT

Check out my site.

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

nic — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:40:00 GMT

DOWNLOAD.COM does not work.....

RE: Word Automation from C# vs. VB.NET

RB — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:42:00 GMT

make sure it is not saved as a text file

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

YourTechSupport — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:27:00 GMT

Okay. I'm not gonna bother recapping the entire peanut gallery.

I was, until two weeks ago, a DSL Tech Support Rep. It's true that a)Verizon seems to screw up a lot of orders. b) the network/router system from You to the Internet is somewhat shaky. c) 718 area code is 'overutilized', meaning 'not enough capacity'. This has been an issue for at least five months.
Granted, I rarely received calls from people saying their service was fine, so I may be biased.

Some people have to understand, that with all majot telcos (especially a behemoth like Verizon, that a few customers (read: a hundred thousand or so a month) get botched orders.

Duncan's problem does happen far too often, sometimes taking a month or longer to fix. This is, of course, Verizon's fault. And there's not a whole lot the poor support tech can do but note it and submit it to supervisors or higher offices.

On the other hand, there are customers that, even though they obviously corrupted their own computers (70% of calls, see my site for a long long vent on that), or they just shouldn't be allowed near a PC in the first place.

Some people think that they are 100% right and that we have a magical "Fix Internet" button at our desks, after all, they do pay for service, certain things like provisioning, and the Laws of Physics can be instantly bypassed just for them. To tell the truth, if I had a button for that, I'd also want a "Kill Customer In Randomly Amusing Manner" button.

Guess which one I'd hit more often...

RE: I thought "Gratis" was a really cool company name, but I guess I was wrong ...

Jarno — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:12:00 GMT

I'm not sure if you knew this and thought 'Gratis' was a cool name because of this, or if you didn't and thought 'Gratis' was a cool name anyway, but "gratis" is the Dutch (and I think German?) word for "free of charge".

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

mr.dsltechguy — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:23:00 GMT

I love my job as a tech support agent for DSL......at least i know i have job security. Every day its more than 100 calls on que. Always interesting on what i hear and go through

RE: Cool VB.NET Utility... the VB.NET Class Builder

Ron — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:23:00 GMT

yea i doesnt work you cant even rename properties or anything..... how do we know that the real program works... $15 is cheap but if its doesnt work then its worth less.... should at least have a working demo copy up there

RE: I thought "Gratis" was a really cool company name, but I guess I was wrong ...

nomad — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:01:00 GMT

it <a href="http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=gratis&x=20&y=13">means the same</a> in english

RE: I thought "Gratis" was a really cool company name, but I guess I was wrong ...

nomad — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:02:00 GMT

It means the same in english:
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=gratis&x=20&y=13

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Tech Support Representative — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:26:00 GMT

Here's some things to keep in mind when you call in;

Every problem you have can be fixed. Not always by us, but by someone. Maybe.

If your DSL (or READY) light is flashing; check that your filters are installed, and that there is NOT one on your modem. If you have a fax machine, answering machine, caller id, satellite tv system, security system, etc. ANYTHING THAT'S ON YOUR PHONE LINE EXCEPT FOR THE DSL MODEM: FILTER IT!

If it's not flashing, then there's only so much we can do. If your modem has internal configuration, we're going for that first. If we can't get to it, we check for proxy servers, Local Area Connection being disabled, the TCP/IP Settings (they should be set to auto-obtain both IP and DNS) and that your Ethernet Card is enabled and working properly. If all these things are fine, we check your IP Address. If it's not a 192.x.x.x, then we'll uninstall and reinstall your Ethernet Card drivers. If you don't have Windows XP, or the drivers disc (from the Ethernet Card Manufacturer) then you'll be RTV'd (Reffered to Vendor). Expect it. Deal with it.

Basically, when you call in, you tell us what's wrong. Generally, this is going to be "My internet is broken," or, "I can't get online."

We ask some prodding questions, figure out the issue and try to fix it. There's roughly 5-8 steps we can take before it's either fixed, or we're telling you to call someone else. This is how it works.

If you keep us on the phone longer than 15 minutes, we are going to be less apt to want to fix your problem. The reason is we have to keep our call times or AHT (Average Handling Time) below 15 minutes. So if you're a bumbling retard who doesn't know what a right-click or an address bar is, we are going to hate you. We don't even have to know you, we automatically hate you.

If your name is hard to pronounce, let us call you Jim, or Jane, or whatever your "hopefully-easy-to-pronounce" first name is. Because we have to say your name at least THREE times during the call.

If we say we can't do something, it's because we can't. We can't push your service ready date up, it's impossible. It's happened once. That person was friends with the Verizon CEO. That should tell you how hard it is to get that done.

If your service was cancelled, you have one option. Reorder it. I take that back, don't reorder it. That way, we don't have to do this all over again.

Don't ask to speak to a supervisor when it's negative. If you want us to do something, and we can't, and you get mad and ask for a supervisor, here's what happens. "Hey, can you take a negative escalation?" "Sure, waht's it about?" "This guy wants me to do this, and I can't." -- Supervisor get's on the line -- "Hi, I'm sorry, we can't do that."

And the best thing you can do for a representative, and trust me, they will love you for this; when they start to say, "Mr./Mrs. Customer, it's been my goal today to meet or exceed..." Interrupt them with a question. I don't care what it is, it could be "What color is the sky?" Just interrupt them, let them answer, say thanks and goodbye and hang up. It'll make us happy.

I know you want your shit fixed. The problem is, I don't want to deal with you if you're angry, or if you lie to me. I know when you don't have a filter on your phone. That's what that noise is on the line, that's why your DSL light is flashing, that's why your speed is slow. Just do what we say, and things will be alright. Things may not get fixed, but you're not going to have a fucking heart attack.

Thanks.

RE: Fable is addicting...

annonomous — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:17:00 GMT

is there any other way to get rid of the dirty disk error

RE: Fable is addicting...

domenic — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:40:00 GMT

I recently purchased the pc version and I am getting very week and feeble minded while trying to find some info on crashing after spash i keep sending error reports in just to pissoff microsloth. I do give the box a 10 very excellent use of orange and black and all the cool pictures.Hell the box said it was optimized for windows.Wonder how bad it would run on something else?

score::

the game Not available
box it came with 10

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Mooky — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:47:00 GMT

interesting, very interesting, u not workin for the pr are u??? no, i dont think so. i think our problem mr dont have a heart attack, is that verizon lies, like everybody else, even the president, verizon doesnt care, like most people, even the president. and all i want is for my dsl to work like verizon told me it would, otherwise, i would have never dropped comcast's cable, 30$ higher or wahtever, i would have paid extra to get this shit working, but right now i'm paying 30$ for nothing to work. and either i call and get a verizon dumbass, or i call and get some ass like yourself on his verizon donkey who wants me to know theres hunger in africa, i mean really, dont have a heart attack. and i'm not rude, no i even, i mean when i'm talkin to a dumbass, i even play like i'm also dumbass, but yes, i'm having a heart attack, and no dsl, so there u go.

RE: More on that Halo Armor

liquid_speaker — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:05:00 GMT

need... (gasps)... HALO.... ARMOR!!! any one know how to get onto the nightmare site?

RE: More on that Halo Armor

splatz_st — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 04:43:00 GMT

fyi if u go to briarsarmor.com u can order the armor it doesn't have to be through ebay

RE: A bug in my RSS generator, but is it really invalid?

Duncan Mackenzie — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:07:00 GMT

That is exactly it Mike, but the charset is actually part of the MIME type ... to avoid issues though, I will be stripping it off in the future versions of the generator...

RE: Two books on Amazon... boy those Content Strategists are busy folks....

Kent Sharkey — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:16:00 GMT

Said G:

"I don't think that is you. I don't remember ever seeing you wearing a shirt with a collar."

RE: DataGrid programming...

Abhishek Pareek — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:44:00 GMT

Hi,

I m trying to place combobox in to one of datagrid's column.
But i didn't get success using existing DataGridColumnStyle.
so, please help me. Its urgent to me.
thanks in advance u buddy.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Just Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:40:00 GMT

I have got to chime in on this. I am on hold with Verizon right now, have been for over an hour. This does not put a customer in a good mood when a rep finally decides to answer. If so many people are in the "que" then Verizon needs to hire more reps. The company is a complete joke. The CEO must be an idiot because this stuff starts right at the top and filters down to every single employee. We had 3 Verizon phone lines into our home. When we opened a new office we wanted to port 1 number over to Vonage. They ported 1 number over and shut off the other 2. When we asked them why they did this there was no explanation. When asked when the number could be restored I was told 2 weeks! To add insult to injury they told me there would be a connection fee. So after they screw up, they want to charge me money for their mistake. The company, in my opinon, needs a complete revamping starting with the CEO. Fire him/her and restructure the whole company. Give the support and sales people decent training, and instruct them that they are to do everything they can to help the customer. I have had these people hang up on me, fer cryin' out loud! Anyway, I will be eliminating Verizon from my life as soon as I can resolve this last problem. Vonage has been great so far!

RE: More on that Halo Armor

GDuran144 — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:52:00 GMT

How do u get to the order area

RE: My old guide to the Updater Application Block is up at a new URL...

Rob Windsor — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:44:00 GMT

I was diging around your site on Friday trying to find that article. I'd used it before myself (as well as the updated version you linked to) and I needed the info to help out a client. Even though both links were broken I found the text portions of the posts on the WayBackMachine at archive.org

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

OMG — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:03:00 GMT

So i'm one of the fiirst customers for Verizon in my area a few years back I get it running myself no problem 1.5 down, so I'm happy customer. A year later the $30 + tax plan changes to $55 plan and they try to give me the "opportunity" to stay with my speed. I decline they switch me to a frame relay account and cut my speed to 700k at the same rate, ok so now I'm not so happy but I stick around being lazy. Year goes by and now they are selling 3-4m for $30 but I'm stilll receiving 700k. Hmm what's with that loyal customer for 3y, that sucks. Call up ask for a fix. Get the run around for weeks... oh we're sorry you have to call this or that number. Do my own research looks like my modem is real old now, so I order a updated model. I finally get through to someone in "Retention" who seems to know what's what he tells me I have to cancel my service then they can have sales call me to re-order and connect me with the new offering. Evidently that's the only way they simply refuse to "upgrade" existing customers to existing services, no matter how many years and how good a customer You've been. To them upgrades mean they loose bandwidth for new customers I guess. Well another week has gone by my connection is still 700k they seem be ignoring me again. But they did send me another one of the 3year old modem models I already had for some dumb ass reason. Hell I ordered a 6100 then send me another fujitsu speedport that will not run at the rates they are offering this area. Really do they have anyone with a IQ over 10 at this place?

RE: VBFeeds.com is up and running... check it out!

Sonu Kapoor — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:33:00 GMT

Nice, checkout www.dotnetslackers.com, which aggreates basically everything around .net. Thought you would be interested.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Yet another Verizon representative — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:14:00 GMT

I work in Verizon's Residential Department. It's a shame the entire company gets a bad rap for DSL's imperfections. Unfortunately, Verizon is trying to keep up with the rest of the industry and are more interested in the quantity of people they sign up rather than making DSL a quality product. But I'd like to add this... if you're interested in "HIGH" speed, we're not for you. We offer faster speed service than Dial-up at comparable prices. So don't complain when something takes 3 minutes on DSL that would take 1 minute on Cable for twice the price. Please....

As far as you people who switch your phone lines to other companies (especially cable & VOIP providers): Please stop your bitching when things don't work to your liking once the switch is done. Any problems, call your new company... they did the order, they fucked it up. Oh, and once you realize you need to switch back, yes it will take two weeks and there will be an installation cost because it's being "installed" on our facilities from scratch. Don't argue with us, there's nothing we can do about it. What kills me is when we rush things and mess them up, you get mad. Gimme a break, you should've never left in the first place. (p.s. Do you even have 911 access? And if you do, can they track your address in an emergency? Yeah, but your new, cheap provider didn't tell you that.)

Lastly, why do you always want to speak to a supervisor? Don't you know all they do is walk around the office pressuring us to sell you something? When you think we're finally giving you a supervisor, it's actually just another representative who does take-overs because they have more patience. Managers don't want to bothered with your whining... even when you're right. So if you really need something done, come on nicely, keep your initial ranting brief and at a low volume, and answer our questions so we can get to the bottom of your problem. If you feel a heart attack coming on, then forewarn us to not take your anger personally.

Trust me when I say this. We get paid well. We're not idiots like you think. I'm 24 and I made $70,000 last year listening to your crap. And the only reason I'm still with Verizon is because they're paying for my Master's Degree in Accounting. So stop with the condescending undertones, it's only a reason for me to put you back in the queue.

RE: Visual Basic Resource Kit

sukanyavarma — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:54:00 GMT

hai
wether the serial port component is included in the resource kit or not.

RE: DataGrid programming...

sridhar kidambi — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:27:00 GMT

i want a datgrid with a textbox in in . i want to populate that textbox from the database and then modify the content in the database and it should be saved to database.
i want it in vb.net code format.

RE: DataGrid programming...

sridhar kidambi — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:43:00 GMT

i want a datgrid with a textbox in in . i want to populate that in the textbox of the datagrid with the values from the database and then modify the content in the text box of the datagrid and it should be saved to database.
i want it in vb.net code format.

RE: DataGrid programming...

sridhar kidambi — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:44:00 GMT

i want a datgrid with a textbox in it . i want to populate that in the textbox of the datagrid with the values from the database and then modify the content in the text box of the datagrid and it should be saved to database.
i want it in vb.net code format.please mail to me:sridharhere@gmail.com

RE: Ok, Matt Warren is just starting to freak me out...

Matt Warren — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:19:00 GMT

i am the real matt warren, it is my name.

i do not smell like cheese. fear me please. Kthxbai.

RE: DataGrid programming...

crashed — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:05:00 GMT

can anyone please tell me how to add a combobox to one of the columns in a datagrid?

RE: DataGrid programming...

Shrikant — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:51:00 GMT

How to add checkbox control in the datagrid for each record . how to implement the checkall function using VB.NET

RE: DataGrid programming...

Shrikant — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:53:00 GMT

Hi,
My Name Is Shrikant More .I am .Net Developer.

Can Any One Provide me With The Code For

adding checkbox control in the datagrid for each record & how to implement the checkall function using VB.NET .

Regards,
Shrikant More

RE: Little "Memory" game up on the MSDN Magazine site...

it中国 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:51:00 GMT

Thank you I am learning of new things all day! And it is good to know of my RSS already

work. I think I need add button of RSS to make this thing clear.
But more work to do!

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

Adam — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:02:00 GMT

what do i do to get it to work

RE: Halo Custom Edition, with support for user-created maps... now available...

Adam — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:02:00 GMT

when i installed it it asks for the correct cd

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

tim — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:09:00 GMT

this site, www.freeipodspost.com lets you post your referral links and you can get all the referrals you need in just 1 day. I got 23 referrals for the ipod nano in 7 hours when I used this site even though I only needed 5!!!

RE: DataGrid programming...

shanmukha — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:03:00 GMT

Hi I need some help in Datagrid.

How to add the new rows to the datagrid at the specified locations.
How to remove a specific column.
How to set alternate color for the rows.

using visual basic.net

thanks in adavance

RE: Saved up my pennies...

Tim Marman — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:44:00 GMT

I pre-ordered in Sept from RitzCamera - it was the only place I found pre-ordering the console itself. I also bought 3 more games from them, so I ended up spending nearly $600 anyways... but the difference was I got to choose my games.

I am BUYING the damned thing for Madden 2006 (and I already own the XB version) so if the bundle didn't include that I wasn't interested.

I think they're no longer pre-ordering it though.... but if you keep your eyes peeled, some have announced it. They just sell out quick as you would imagine.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Delicious! — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:15:00 GMT

hahahahaha..that's by far, the best comeback for Verizon DSL!.. ROFL

RE: DataGrid programming...

Amit — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:08:00 GMT

Add button in datagrid column in Windows Application in vb.net

RE: Are you wearing enough flair?

gary shaimas — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:29:00 GMT

I wood like to no how to get msdn

RE: Free Flat Screen arrived yesterday...

gumbyguy123 — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:52:00 GMT

http://freeipods.peel.com/refer.php?l=ipd11608872elwel

very easy Hint: dont do the upgrade

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

VOLGuy — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 02:04:00 GMT

Just started at VOL DSL 3 weeks ago. Tuesday starts my first day out of tank. With all this hate mail, I'm a bit scared!

RE: Hmm... 11:20 pm Sunday Night...

lukas — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:16:00 GMT

halo 2 even thoug i dont work he he

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Yet another Verizon representative — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:58:00 GMT

Don't be scared, VOLGuy. Honestly, Verizon DSL services sooooo many customers, but you only hear about the bad experiences. People don't take the time to spread the word about the good stuff! lol. Hope everything works out for you.

RE: Ok, so I'm doing work for Murach's marketing dept... but it is free content!

Mun — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:20:00 GMT

Looks good :-) Think I might get the C# version though! :-)

RE: Added Atom support to the FlairMaker... my version at least

Kent Sharkey — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:20:00 GMT

Send it along, or better yet -- want to finish my article for me?

RE: Ordered a book from Amazon today, expect a dip in my productivity

Clayton — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:39:00 GMT

Jordan has picked up the pace a bit in this one. It won't be such a slow read as the previous two books.

RE: Ordered a book from Amazon today, expect a dip in my productivity

Chris — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:44:00 GMT

I love the series, but I'm waiting for the last book to come out before I buy anouther one.

The story is just getting a bit long in the tooth.

RE: Doing uploads with BITS

Loane Sharp — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:46:00 GMT

Hi Duncan
Please, please ... there is a definite need for this! I've created a .NET wrapper for the BITS 1.5 API but am at a bit of a loss how to work with it.
Best regards, please keep the articles coming
Loane

RE: Nice mention of the upcoming Xbox 360 for Dummies book on xboxtoday.ca

Clint Thompson — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 03:51:00 GMT

Wow... anything to make a buck. How necessary this book isn't!

RE: DataGrid programming...

Bahaa El Arabi — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:08:00 GMT

in vb .net (Datagrid) i want to make calculation like Qty * Price and put result in another cell
also how to put the cursor in another cell like set focus in Access
I have to display total value "sum(result_column)" into textbox from datagrid cell.

mbalafreet@hotmail.com

RE: Moved my .Text blog from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0

Haacked — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:03:00 GMT

Hey Duncan, would you mind contributing that code to the Subtext project (next generation fork of .TEXT). You can post it in the contact form of my blog if you don't mind.

RE: Interesting phrase...

kenton tjarks — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:36:00 GMT

Foo fighters are famous for there sense of humor... Perhaps the phrasing is meant to be ridiculous- funny.

RE: RSS feed authoring for those without blog software or an enjoyment of typing angle brackets

Alex Barnett — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:33:00 GMT

Look forward to seeing it ;-)

RE: Some things shouldn't be an impulse buy

Mr. Reid — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:04:00 GMT

Now days people will try to advertise in anyway possible, I think in this case it would make sense that somebody suggested it and they took it at what could be considered and impulse buy! Its pretty funny though!

Mr. Reid

RE: Gave a talk earlier today about how we built MSDN2...

Adam — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:34:00 GMT

Looks like there's a tiny bug in your XML documentation -> MSDN2 converstion.

"Registering a T:System.Web.Hosting.VirtualPathProvider
A custom VirtualPathProvider..."

RE: More on that Halo Armor

casey — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:49:00 GMT

must.... have.... spartain..... armor! I MUST HAVE IT! this is the first time i have heard of it. YOU MUST TELL ME WHERE THE ARMOR IS! I WANT IT! I NEED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAND IT OVER, OR I SHALL GATHER MANY FELLOW ELITES AND DESTROY YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nah, i guess just daydreaming of it would be better. anyway, if you people have any clue where i can find the armor, post it, okay? THANKS!

RE: Just spent way too much time fixing VB code coloring on MSDN2

Bill McCarthy — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:08:00 GMT

Hey Duncan,

MsgBox and CallByBName aren't keywords AFAIK. Here, they aren't coloured in the IDE.

BTW: I have code colouring code for the VB snipept Editor which you are welcome to borrow. It will need tweaking to deal with escaped html though.

RE: Just spent way too much time fixing VB code coloring on MSDN2

Bill McCarthy — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:08:00 GMT

Hey Duncan,

MsgBox and CallByBName aren't keywords AFAIK. Here, they aren't coloured in the IDE.

BTW: I ahve code colouring code for the VB snipept Editor which you are welcome to borrow. It will need tweaking to deal with escaped html though.

RE: I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?

Vic Berggren — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:47:00 GMT

That is a brilliant idea. Overlay ads...

RE: I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?

Pedro Silva — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:25:00 GMT

I would hope not, but I'm sure it will happen -- just a matter of time.

It would make flying in and out of cities more interesting too.

RE: Just spent way too much time fixing VB code coloring on MSDN2

Duncan Mackenzie — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:48:00 GMT

I think you have a point there Bill, I believe I added in too many lists... MsgBox and CallByName are built-in Functions, but not keywords...

RE: I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?

Glenn Dewar — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:15:00 GMT

It's a heck of a lot better than many of the -other- places advertising is seen and allowed.

Advertisers have taken advantage of free speech which was not concieved with them in mind, while political speech has been stomped on repeatedly.

But on your roof? Why the heck not? The only time anyone will see it is on Virtual or Google Earth (My favorite) and it wouldn't get in the way, it would only be a minor distraction.

RE: A little off-topic, but .... "Verizon Sucks"

Against another over-paid Verizon Representitive — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:34:00 GMT

Verizon is the worst. I waited 2 months for my "dry-loop" DSL living in a fairly urban area, Boston. Once I was given a confirmation that my service was ready, the wrong modem they sent wouldn't sync up with their system. I got to play mr fix it with some indian guy on the phone for a few hours a night for about a week untill I gave up. About a month later after 8 trouble tickets had been closed (I dont know why, there was still trouble) a real person came to the house and said the previous verizon guy wired my house wrong at the pole. Too bad I didnt have a tall enough ladder, maybe the Indian guy could have helped ME wire it right three weeks earlier when all the trouble started. Verizon is an abuseive monoploy. Becuase there are so few players in the market and they have the best prices they get away with doing whatever they want to customers including being totally unable to communicate with themselves and their customers when their service falls way short. I am waiting for my next battle with Verizon, they started double billing me for service I was suposed to get for free as well as for the time my service was not functioning and the wrong modem that was also suposed to be free. After getting the run around from a rep I just called my credit card company and had a card re-issued and the charges disputed. Fuck Verizon, lets see how good their masters level accountants are at finding out they aren't getting paid. Oh yeah and you don't have my ssn to go after my credit report... I was smart enough not to give it to you.

RE: I wonder if Virtual Earth will lead to building-roof advertising?

Glenn Dewar — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:03:00 GMT

Advertisers are worse than roaches.

Apparently it's already been thought of...

N 40°47'02"
W 73°50'

RE: Some great podcasts on VB6 -> .NET and more...

Abdo Haj Yahia — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:55:00 GMT

Sir ,
I use visual studio 6 - sp6
when i install my application on the end-user pc , the form and all conponents on it appears LTR ( left to right ) in spite of i have previously adjusted them to be RTL for arabic .
when installing Ms-Office everything work well .
May You please help me
Thanks a lot

mhycic@scs-net.org