Site Archives for April 2004


Eric Gunnerson on Channel 9...

Posted on April 30th

Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: […]

Jay discusses the use of partial classes in Windows Forms 2.0

Posted on April 30th

This new feature, which isn't limited to Windows Forms, allows a single class to extend across multiple files, isn't limited to Windows Forms but the designer-generated code is just screaming out for a solution like this. […]

I know that movies based on books are often a disappointment...

Posted on April 29th

In many ways, I'm ok with that; it isn't like they took away the book when they made the movie... […]

Visual Basic At The Movies now available...

Posted on April 28th

We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, check them out! […]

Presentation from Francesco Balena on Data Structures for VB Programmers

Posted on April 27th

From Paschal's blog... […]

Ok, if you are programming against AD... this is so very cool...

Posted on April 26th

This very recent article from CodeProject.com shows a Windows Forms control (C#) that allows you to browse AD objects... I have some issues with the implemenation (mainly: why use a User Control... why not just inherit from TreeView?), but the idea is great and well... it works, so why not take a lo […]

Eric is looking for your opinion on C# related blogs...

Posted on April 25th

If you have any opinions on this topic, make sure you click on the link below and comment through Eric's blog... […]

Gregg Miskelly covers some more debugging options...

Posted on April 25th

Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging... […]

My MSDN Magazine article is up on the MSDN site...

Posted on April 22nd

It is all about "My", a feature of Visual Basic 2005... and I think it is fairly interesting stuff :)

Matt Warren discusses ObjectSpaces and ORM in general

Posted on April 21st

Check out this post from 'The Wayward WebLog'... it is a good discussion starter for anyone who wants to chat about ORM (object-relational mapping) ... […]

Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET

Posted on April 20th

I had read this in the 'offline' version of MSDN magazine (you know, that one that uses paper and is hard to copy and paste from?), but I hadn't noticed it was available online until now: […]

Somewhere inside me... an audiophile just died.

Posted on April 20th

I am a closet audiophile, with all the usual history.... did the 'music man' thing for plays, moved up to music guy for bar bands, blah, blah, blah... spent way too much time worried about the alignment of my high-end tape deck, etc... but at some point my obsession with all things audio related […]

pinvoke.net ... a place to post and find all the Win32 API signatures you need ...

Posted on April 20th

Adam Nathan has created a home for a ton of PInvoke signatures, organized by Module/DLL and pre-populated (by the man himself) with a ton of the most common signatures... I'll let the site describe itself with this text from the "What is this site?" page; PINVO […]

Upcoming Visual Basic .NET Chats

Posted on April 19th

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats for a full listing of upcoming chats, but here are a couple of VB ones that you might be interested in... […]

Scott Nonnenberg on Debugger Visualizers in VS 2005

Posted on April 18th

With code samples and screenshots based on the recent Community drop of Whidbey (VS 2005), Scott explains how to create your first debugger visualizer: […]

ASP.NET (with C#) article by Dino Esposito...

Posted on April 17th

via Kent Sharkey's Blog […]

Developing Office Add-Ins using .NET

Posted on April 16th

I've done this myself, including using a C++ shim to authenticode sign my add-in to get around

Ok, Matt Warren is just starting to freak me out...

Posted on April 16th

If you haven't been reading his blog, then just let me point out that this post is completely consistent with all of his others... I'll let you decide if this is a good or bad thing :) ... .... I suspect that a whole hoard of you banded together to try and unravel the mystery o […]

I've started up a Blog for Frequently Asked Questions about VB.NET

Posted on April 16th

Visual Basic 2003 or 2005 (Whidbey) questions are welcome... just come on over and post your thoughts: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbfaq/

Hey Scott Seely is blogging!!

Posted on April 14th

Scott, one of my colleagues from my first year at MSDN, has a blog now and he just posted a cool entry illustrating the new configuration system in VS 2005... Configuration is a breeze. In the current Visual Studio .NET 2005, you’re going to find that a great thing has happened to configuration. B […]

C# Featurette #3 from Eric Gunnerson

Posted on April 14th

Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment: […]

Grant points out a very unknown configuration option for version numbers...

Posted on April 14th

In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'. […]

Upcoming Dates/Locations on the Visual Basic World Tour

Posted on April 13th

Waltham 4/14 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver) New York 4/15 (Steven Lees and Amanda Silver) Louisville 4/20 (Jay Schmelzer and Paul Vick) Chicago 4/21 (Jay Schmelzer and Paul Vick) Philadelphia 4/21 (Sean Draine and Joe Binder) Denver 4/26 (Robert Green and Jay Roxe) St Louis 4/26 (Paul Yuknew […]

Eric covers another new C# Whidbey (VS 2005) feature

Posted on April 13th

Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonetheless […]

VS 2005 has a blog?

Posted on April 11th

If you are using the CTP (Community Technical Preview) or you are just interested in Whidbey/VS2005, then you'll definitely want to check out the new blog created to allow various team members to post info on VS2005. Check it out here. […]

Developing a Windows Forms Wizard...

Posted on April 11th

I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking panels on top of each other, naming them step1...stepN and then showing and hiding them as necessary. Not exactly an easy-to-reuse approach, but it works. Justin Rogers, a developer who has worked on t […]

Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents

Posted on April 9th

This is so very cool... a great idea, good explanations, tons of useful bits of code and information, and even a very graphically pleasing set of diagrams in the article!! […]

Are you a student looking for VS.NET?

Posted on April 9th

Make sure you check out your University/College bookstore! "vbjay" mentioned today (on GotDotNet) that he bought the Academic version of VS.NET 2003 from his college bookstore for just a bit over $100.00. I did some googling around and found several University bookstores offering the software for ar […]

Jay Bazuzi discusses the 'Rename' Refactoring in some detail...

Posted on April 9th

If you haven't read much about Refactoring before, I'd suggest you check out Jay's earlier post on the subject, but he is now going into quite a bit more detail. […]

Part 6 of Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures is now live...

Posted on April 7th

Check it out here Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets Scott Mitchell Summary: Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets. A set is an unordered collection of unique items that can be enumerated and compared to other sets in a variety of ways. […]

MVP Blogs

Posted on April 7th

I didn't know this existed... so I'm going to assume that a few of you don't know about it either... there is a Blog site for MVPs at http://www.msmvps.com/, with some blogs hosted on that site (using .Text) and links to MVP blogs on other sites. […]

Real-Time Syntax highlighting for HTML...

Posted on April 7th

Bah... I've been digging around the web for a couple of days now, and I'm getting frustrated, so I thought I would share my pain with you […]

Great VB6 content at DevX

Posted on April 6th

I was browsing DevX's Visual Basic Zone (http://www.devx.com/vb) and I found so much great stuff I just thought I'd better point out a couple of useful items; Printing Info for VB6 in two parts (part 1 and part 2)and I also found http://www.freevbcode.com/ which has a ton of VB6 code snippets (and i […]

Testing BlogJet

Posted on April 5th

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com […]

Upcoming webcast on Test Driven Development (TDD)

Posted on April 5th

Test Driven Development as a Practice – Level 400 […]

Visual Studio Service Pack 6 Released

Posted on April 4th

This came out a few days ago, but in case you missed it... […]

Back from Disneyland...

Posted on April 4th

Very little to say... I had a great time (and maybe I'll talk about that later, but it is pretty far off-topic from my normal 'content'), but now I have hundreds of emails to dig through... most of them have resolved themselves (they emailed me... Exchange bounced an Out-Of-Office back to them... […]

Upcoming Language Changes discussed

Posted on April 1st

Eric Gunnerson has posted some information regarding upcoming C# language changes, definitely worth a read; Customer Focused Design Since February 1st, I've been getting a ton of negative feedback about the C# language, and two weeks ago we were notified that the FCLC was shopping a proposed rule, […]