Duncan Mackenzie.NET

It won't show up in the MSDN RSS feed(s), but at least it will appear on here

Is now up on the web (I guess it was all up there before, just not in one place) as my interview with mainfunction.com has made it up onto their web site. I think they told me this was coming months ago, so I hope I didn't mention it to a bunch of […]

My most recent Coding 4 Fun column was just published... a fairly "fun" example, even if it happens to do something a little 'odd' with Remoting over SOAP. For those of you who read it; […]

Many things on GotDotNet now have RSS feeds, including User Samples! […]

My last two posts mentioned two different ways of achieving similar results; deploying and updating an application over the Internet. Not suprisingly, I received a comment asking how do you determine which of the two methods to use, a very good question which I will try to answer here. […]

Jamie Cool took the auto-updating technology out of Terrarium and made it into its own component solution for adding application updates to your app, which was pretty cool on its own... but now it is even cooler as PAG (the same MSFT group who brought you the Data Access Application Block, etc.) has […]

I'm on my way to Winnipeg, Manitoba to give a talk on No Touch Deployment with .NET; luckily I managed to find wireless access at the Vancouver airport along the way. If I had to pick one thing about .NET that justifies a move from VB6 windows applications to VB.NET Windows Forms it would have to be […]

I'm sure Alan Cooper has a better name for it, but this thread on GDN caught my eye today; […]

Ed Kaim appears to "like" our new Developer Center format...

The new ASP.NET developer center has launched at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net. And yes, having asp.net as a directory name is perfectly "legal", even if it looks a little odd the first time you see it. Kent Sharkey is the Editor/Content Strategist of this new site, so any comments should be di […]

My latest column is up on MSDN, Macro Madness , part of the ongoing Coding 4 Fun experience! Speaking of Coding 4 Fun, or the lack thereof... I'm sitting in a wireless lounge at TechEd, where I have spent most of my trip to Dallas... doing remote troubleshooting and codi […]

A pair of Mr. Smiths (Eric and Cory) have invited me and anyone else who is into .NET to come for dinner and drinks at the Hard Rock Cafe […]

Skipped out of work on Friday morning to go sea Finding Nemo with my son. He is only 2yrs old, so he probably isn’t really ready for going to movies as a general practice… but he really enjoyed […]

Woo Hoo, I got a bag when I registered! Lately, I haven't been getting them, something about the "staff" on my registration at all of these things... so my laptop bag closet was getting a little empty. I give these great bags away to my friends and family, there are just too many for one person, whi […]

I thought I had better write my first TechEd related post, now that I've joined techedbloggers.net, and especially since I've arrived in Dallas. […]