Duncan Mackenzie.NET

I love the recently posted "Enhanced BrowseForFolder styled TreeView" (a C# control by Jerry Maguire), and the list of new content from the last week is just amazing; A Piano Key Control in C# - Leslie Sanford (a cool article if you are into control building) Code Access Security from the perspecti […]

Forgive me in advance... I'm not posting about .NET, in fact I'm not going to say much at all except to post to two great posts Chris Sells: Same-Sex Marriages *Should* Be Allowed Harry Pierson: In Support of Gay Marriage and then to a little web-shop that I heard about tonight... if you are into t […]

Hmm... I had no idea it was going up, but there it is... Click to read Chapter 3: Building Windows Applications The Way Things WereThe Windows Forms ModelHandling Events in .NETCoding Without Control ArraysConfiguring Your Form for ResizingProgramming Without Default Form InstancesWorking with Mul […]

Dan Fernandez presents how Visual C# “Whidbey” will include several IDE enhancements including a first-class code editor with rich editing features, a powerful debugger, and drag-and-drop visual designers. Click here to check it out in this recent installment of MSDN TV!   […]

This bit of news is getting quite a bit of airplay, so you've likely heard already, but the ASP.NET Resource Kit is now available... full of tons of code, videos, free book chapters, white papers, controls, and more... how can you miss it? Click here for more information! […]

Writing my last post started me thinking about the C64... and I found this page detailing software releases over the years the C64 was hot (really, it […]

This is so cool, even if you might take it as mostly marketing (sorry in advance)... […]

Provides a great introduction to creating your own custom columns and column styles.... including a drop-down column style, which is a very popular custom column for most folks!! DataGrid Zen Novice by Alastair Stell This project provides a 101 tour of the Windows Forms DataGrid Control, with emph […]

Free sample modules available from the following training courses... […]

My simple class: […]

Joel Semeniuk, (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a co-founder of Imaginets), is doing a security webcast for MSDN... something about 'threat modeling' or 'model threatening', I'm really not sure which, but I'm sure it will be entertaining either way. […]

While I did manage to find some really nice desktop backgrounds at http://www.ninjagaidengame.com/NinjaGaiden/images/wallpaper/wallpaper3_1280.html, I didn't find a release date for the game I've been waiting for... Now, considering who I work for, I'm not one to talk trash about a company for slipp […]

Robert Green, a PM on the Visual Basic team, has recently started up a blog... and he already has posted a bunch of cool Visual Basic Whidbey information! Check it out. […]

A new sample was posted recently by Joel Pobar (a Program Manager in the CLR team)C# command line FTP serverA lightweight implementation of the FTP RFC spec. Supports the following: Supports most of the common FTP commands that FTP clients like CuteFTP and LeechFTP support. Upload and download files […]

Debugging Visual Basic .NET Applications Join members of the Visual Basic .NET and Debugging teams to discuss debugging Visual Basic .NET applications with the Visual Studio .NET Debugger. Almost every program will need to be debugged sometime, so take this opportunity to learn more about […]

"By the way, you might want to send a Valentine to George Lucas. His first "Star Wars" trilogy is the most-wanted stuff on DVD, and the big announcement of the week is that it's finally coming in September." from Mark Rahner at the Seattle Times... […]

Actually, I've always wanted to mimic something simpler, just the error message and a more button to see the stack trace... but this component would be wonderful during a beta release, or as something that can be toggled on by the troubleshooting developer... […]

Part 3: Binary Trees and BSTs […]

I've seen this around before, and this post was from June 2003, but it is worth mentioning again! .NET Html Agility Pack: How to use malformed HTML just like it was well-formed XML... Here is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. It is an assembly that […]

Cory Smith, one man Visual Basic evangelism team and owner-of-many-DVDs, discusses the MS Research TreeMap control and creating a Visual Basic .NET version of a code sample to "tree map" your hard drive. Check out his thoughts, and a nice screenshot here. […]

Getting Started with ObjectSpaces by Jan Tielens ObjectSpaces is one of the exciting features coming in the new version of .NET Framework, codename "Whidbey". This article will explain what ObjectSpaces are and will provide a step-by-step guide to a first experience with ObjectSpaces. […]

I loved Allegiance, it was beautiful, fun and incorporated a lot of neat multiplayer concepts that I enjoyed (like being able to have one player in a gun turret on your destroyer and another acting as the pilot).... but it withered away for some reason... I was never sure why, and a lot of its fans […]

On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners, editor-in-chief of Artima.com, met with Anders Hejlsberg in his office at Microsoft. Check out the entire eight-part interview here, or follow the links below to find each individual section. […]

Check out these chats on http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Using Windows Forms Controls in Visual Basic .NET […]

I'm a bit reluctant to post this, and I'm sorry in advance to all of your friends, but you should think about your own best interest here (you could win a Tablet PC!!). […]

Get all the details on the 3.0 beta of the JLCA here including information on how to join the beta program.

What is a Smart Client anyway? […]

A version of this code appeared recently on MSDN Belux, and it was so cool I asked Ianier Munoz if he'd mind turning it into a column for my Coding 4 Fun series.... lucky for me, he said yes and here we areYou have got to check this one out... […]

Why doesn't C# have an 'inline' keyword? […]

From Dan Fernandez's Blog; Below are some recently released articles on C# Whidbey, definitely check them out […]

I play Halo for the PC, and every time I get an update I am very excited... last time it meant a big reduction in the activities of team-killing losers, and I bet it will be equally cool next time. Lots of the applications on my machine have updates available, but unless they check on their own […]

From KC Lemson's blog... ASP.Net samples of WebDAV against Exchange 2003 […]