Duncan Mackenzie.NET

Continuing along with the rest of the article, I start to layout the basic design of what I am about to build... Designing our New FeatureAs a fairly low-priority item, the request wasn't described in any more detail than that one line, but I had a pretty good idea about what folks around MSDN w […]

Here is a teaser for the article I am currently working on... Keeping Work Fun Duncan Mackenzie […]

What would you folks think if I wrote one of my MSDN articles in a serial fashion into my blog? Basically just posted each section as I wrote it? I'm considering doing this for my next Coding 4 Fun article, but before I flood your aggregator with piles of text I thought I'd look for some […]

I'm planning to revamp this page to include 'featured posts' (selected by me out of all the blogs I get my hands on, not just the ones listed on this page), but here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/support/community/blogs/) is […]

Ok, I know that Paul knew this, but did anyone else notice that the VB.NET Try...Catch syntax includes a 'when' clause? […]

Hey folks, I'm not sure if you've seen this section of the new MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/letters). It is a place where the appropriate MSDN Content Strategist (me for VB, Kent for ASP.NET, etc...) gives a little blurb about the content on the site for that period of ti […]

The app I am currently working on, and the one that I just recently moved from being an href-exe to being an application that updates itself via the PAG Updater Application Block, has always been located on my own Windows XP machine, that is to say... that is the web server where the .exe and other […]

I recently took an internal MSDN application that I had been running as an HREF-EXE for some months now and converted it to use the Application Updater Block from PAG... it ended up […]

"anon" (why not leave a name, it is much more fun) posted a comment in response to my previous entry, asking why am I including Brad Abrams and Chris Brumme... as they are not VB-specific... […]

As some folks may know, I come up with the content for the Visual Basic developer center on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic) and I'm going to list some blogs on a sub-page of the site... starting with a small list, but hopefully growing it with some feedback from the community at large. I'm i […]

As a parent of a 2yr old, I don't get out to see bands as often as I used to (I know it is certainly possible, but we are not really connected into a babysitting network, so we only go out when family is visiting)... but it turns out that all you need is a toddler and to live in the right city. I we […]

I'm sure I've worked with more disorganized and unprofessional companies, although I can't think of any, but I certainly haven't continued to work with them... but I'm fairly stuck with Verizon. […]

I just uploaded a new sample to microsoft.com, pulling some useful code out of another MSDN sample that was so unrelated that I figured that this little bit of interesting code would never be found. This code sample shows how to retrieve the icon for any given file type and it does it through a […]