Posted on April 30th
Two video interviews with Eric Gunnerson appeared on Channel 9 today: […]
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. […]
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... […]
Posted on April 28th
We just launched a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center, check them out! […]
Posted on April 27th
From Paschal's blog... […]
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 […]
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... […]
Posted on April 25th
Gregg covers some other methods of attaching to a process for debugging... […]
Posted on April 22nd
It is all about "My", a feature of Visual Basic 2005... and I think it is fairly interesting stuff :)
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) ... […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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... […]
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: […]
Posted on April 17th
via Kent Sharkey's Blog
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Posted on April 16th
I've done this myself, including using a C++ shim to authenticode sign my add-in to get around
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 […]
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/
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 […]
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: […]
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'. […]
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 […]
Posted on April 13th
Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonetheless […]
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. […]
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 […]
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!! […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted on April 5th
Test Driven Development as a Practice – Level 400
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Posted on April 4th
This came out a few days ago, but in case you missed it... […]
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... […]
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, […]