Duncan Mackenzie.NET

This is definitely a frequently asked question... "how do I print a text file?" […]

I blogged about it before, but there is a 15-part webcast series starting Tuesday February 3rd, presented by Dr. Joe Hummel, focused on Visual Basic .NET topics for the Visual Basic 6.0 developer (and others!). […]

Every week, Eric Gunnerson, Dan Fernandez and I get together to work on the C# developer center and other C#-ish topics... and last week we divided up some tasks amongst the three of us. Well, we are meeting again today and I don't have those tasks done... so I'm starting to watch my back. I'm ex […]

Ok, you are going to see this a lot today, but my posts go onto the C# and VB home pages, so here goes; […]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/win32map.asp […]

Blog is on the home page, headlines re-vamped... check it out and let me know what you think.

MSDN Chat: Upgrading Visual Basic 6 Skills and Applications to Visual Basic .NET […]

A new developer center has been launched; http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ covering both Data Access (ADO, ADO.NET, OLEDB, etc...) and Storage (SQL Server, Access, etc...). Check it out!

A new .NET Rocks! has been posted: http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/ […]

I'm sure we all feel that the world needs another RSS Aggregator, and lucky for us... someone has written one :) […]

Microsoft Research is a cool place... and if you had any doubt, you only need to look at some of their publicly exposed data, such as the NETSCAN system. I pulled a description of the system from their site... The Netscan System provides detailed reports on the activity of Usenet newsgroups, the au […]

I was just reading the latest dotnetwire newsletter and this article caught my eye. Synchronize Identity Values between Database and DataSet During Updates After inserting the rows in the database your DataTable does not automatically reflect the identity values of as assigned by the database. The p […]

Adam Nathan (author of this book) and the overall master of Interop between managed and unmanaged code, blogged last week about his CLR SPY tool. If you haven't seen it, download it from GotDotNet and let him know what you think (through the comments on his blog entry). CLR SPY: Feature requests for […]

Check out this info from the Patterns and Practices group on Microsoft .NET and J2EE interoperability. This book gives you the best information available about how to ensure that enterprise applications based on J2EE work in harmony with components based on Microsoft .NET and vice versa. […]

A series of 15 webcasts & lab exercises for the VB6 programmer... (see the full list here) […]

I posted a walkthrough of using the Updater Application Block onto my blog back in the summer but Zac Hamilton has made some changes/improvements.... I took the Duncan Mackenzie Blog located at: http://weblogs.asp.net/duncanma/story/10221.aspx, reworked it and added some things I was having a probl […]

I just saw this in a recent MSDN flash and thought it was worth mentioning... Get a Free Xbox with Every Deep Training Class ASP.NET w/ Visual Basic, January 19 - 23, Seattle, WA Visual Basic .NET, January 26 - 31, Seattle, WA Deep Training offers intensive, expert-taught, 5-day, hands-on classe […]

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) API […]

I was pretty impressed with the first Roku offering, a HDTV focused media player that included "art packs" to use your HDTV flat panel as artwork... not that I have one of those flat LCD or Plasma displays... but the idea was appealing. […]

I hadn't noticed that the graphic classes in .NET had built-in support for animated gifs, but a recent GDN post shows how you can grab the individual frames out of a GIF and display them one at a time... I think you would have to find out the intended delay between frames to produce the author's des […]

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I'm back in town, but I was a little surprised to see snow all over the place... that is what I just left in Winnipeg, MB... I thought I was heading back somewhere green :) […]

I'm getting back into my column writing, and I'm looking for topic suggestions... I actually have a long list of ideas already, but I'm always interested in hearing what you folks want to read about! So... suggest away! Feel free to include topics related to the Media Center edition of Windows XP as […]