Duncan Mackenzie .NET

Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. […]

For anyone who is interested in using the code behind this site for their own blog, or who just finds reading code to be a fun pastime, you can go to http://www.codeplex.com/oxite to check it out. Of course, there are other blog engines up there, including blog engine .NET (which appears to be very […]

My twitter app uses a web service hosted on my site to get all the necessary Xbox Live info.... way more than the twitter app actually uses. This is a SOAP API, located here: […]

UPDATE: I've updated this application since the original version, addressing most of the 'known issues' listed below […]

Ok, if you are a programmer... or even if you just can relate enough that you think Office Space is one of the best movies in the world (doesn't everyone?) then I need you to do this: […]

I was browsing on www.xamlog.com and I found this tutorial on "Reflection using Visual Brush and Opacity Mask", which shows you how to produce this effect: with very little code/markup.   Hmm... now that I finally have Vista up and running, it might be worth giving it a try. […]

on10.net has a good interview up about the new blogging tool from the Windows Live team. What's cool about this app? For a developer, there is tons to be excited about, including a very easy to use SDK (wrote some plug-in code last night, super easy) and it ships with a bunch of .NET assemblies […]

Interview with the dev team (including me) is up on Channel 9

the site is live that is... well, so are we... anyway... the real code for http://on10.net is up and running! We know about a few issues, but in general it is ready to rock, so feel free to shoot on over and grab your userid before all the good ones are gone :) […]

It didn't take too long, people found Adam's little puzzle (Channel 9)

Adam Kinney, another member of our three-person dev team, posts our favorite comments about the preview site so far. Scoble, who really is on the same team as me... despite the fact […]

We've put up some fun short videos, but the real site is coming next week... which will be nice, I'll get to start talking about work on my blog again :) […]

Wow, I'm new to the team and I guess I've missed some of the C9 content over the past few years.... and, as the video description says "the second time we've had Bill on C9" so maybe this isn't as unusual as I think.... but this still really surprised me. I didn't expect to see an inteview […]

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ to download it now, and check out the new IE7 video up on Channel 9!

I was playing around with Yahoo's term extraction service, as a possible path to tagging (this is the same service used behind TagCloud.com, for example), and I created this C# class libary with a sample app written in Windows Forms. […]

Ok, so I must admit that the whole Live.com/Start.com thing looks so much like a "Digital Dashboard" (anyone else get into that fad when it was cool?) that I feel like I'm back working on building my own components into the Outlook Today page.... but cynicism aside, it is still a cool idea and the v […]

In the end, MSDN didn't end up needing the RSS editor I wrote, so I've stripped out the features and content specific to their needs and started turning it into a more generic RSS creation tool. If you'd like to see it, as it is, you can run it from a ClickOnce install point here on my site. There a […]

Nick, from "The Coding Monkey" mentioned that he would like to see Atom support in the FlairMaker, so ... having no real reason not to, and having an extra 15 minutes after the kids went to sleep before I started cleaning up the house, I added it... Of course, I've just added this to my forked vers […]

Kent's flair was cool... so I made my own, using his code of course, but targetting whatever feed you want... check out the source of this image and I'm sure you can figure out how to change the feed it is […]

I've added Kent's flair to my site, just so I can be one of the cool kids in the class... […]

Check it out here...

I've played around with coding against the Messenger APIs before, but it seems that MSN has really gone all out now and released a bunch of information for coding against their search, messenger, mapping services, and more... check it out on MSDN as of today! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/ […]

This is an interesting idea ... http://www.exceptioncollection.com/, something that I've pondered before... […]

I'm not sure who invented this term, SAF, but it comes up often around folks who are into new technology for the home... "sure you might want to install a media center pc, but have you taken into account the spouse acceptance factor?" or the more common, "having to restart the cable modem sure reduc […]

I've been messing around with using XSL to display RSS on MSDN, as a simpler alternative to a custom ASP.NET control, and while it works perfectly in the core case (display all the items in a feed in a format), there are two additional requirements that were very easy to handle in a .NET class, but […]

Ok, so the VB.NET 2003 version worked fine upgraded to 2005, with only one warning, but with the recent release of Beta 2, I thought I should jump on the bandwagon like everyone else :) New .zip download linked from here […]

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you probably know about my column "Coding4Fun", well now there is an entire site on MSDN going by that name... to be clear, this is not a site all about my column :) ... it is a site dedicated to the same concept though, hobbyist coding. Check it out at: ht […]

I was mocking up a UI yesterday, and I wanted to produce an interface that looked like Front Page's "New from Template" dialog... […]

That may not seem like a big deal to most MIcrosoft developers, since most of them write code for that exact purpose, but I have spent most of my time in Redmond writing sample code and even with my switch to development I'm focused on writing internal systems that are not likely to ever be exposed […]

There is even an accompanying article. Oh, and a challenge: The first person that can send me a history file that shows the gameplay getting to 1 piece left (with the default 8x8x2 game), I'll happily annouce it to the world (at least the readers of this site). Do you have what it takes? If yo […]

(see this post for an introduction to this topic...) […]