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HTML Agility Pack
I've seen this around before, and this post was from June 2003, but it is worth mentioning again!...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/10/2004
TreeMapping Your File System
Cory Smith, one man Visual Basic evangelism team and owner-of-many-DVDs, discusses the MS Research...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/08/2004
Yet Another Amazing Article from MSDN België & Luxemburg
Getting Started with ObjectSpaces by Jan Tielens ObjectSpaces is one of the exciting features coming...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/08/2004
Allegiance Code now available....
I loved Allegiance, it was beautiful, fun and incorporated a lot of neat multiplayer concepts that I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/07/2004
8-Part Interview with Anders Hejlsberg
On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/06/2004
Upcoming Visual Basic Chats
Check out these chats on msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Using Windows Forms Controls in Visual...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/06/2004
Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 beta
Get all the details on the 3.0 beta of the JLCA here including information on how to join the beta...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/04/2004
David Hill explains and discusses "Smart Clients"
What is a Smart Client anyway?And what makes it so smart?The term Smart Client was coined to...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/03/2004
DirectX Drum Machine in C#
A version of this code appeared recently on MSDN Belux, and it was so cool I asked Ianier Munoz if...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/03/2004
Eric Gunnerson discusses Inlining
Why doesn't C# have an 'inline' keyword? I got this question in email today, and I thought I'd share...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/02/2004
Some recent articles on C# Whidbey
From Dan Fernandez's Blog; Below are some recently released articles on C# Whidbey, definitely check...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/02/2004
I love apps that get updates
I play Halo for the PC, and every time I get an update I am very excited... last time it meant a big...
Author: Duncanma Date: 02/01/2004
Managed code samples from the Exchange SDK
From KC Lemson's blog... ASP.Net samples of WebDAV against Exchange 2003 In a previous entry, I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/31/2004
Printing a text file
This is definitely a frequently asked question... "how do I print a text file?"Well there is more...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/30/2004
Modern Software Development in Visual Basic .NET
I blogged about it before, but there is a 15-part webcast series starting Tuesday February 3rd,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/28/2004
The C# team is going to be coming after me...
Every week, Eric Gunnerson, Dan Fernandez and I get together to work on the C# developer center and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/28/2004
Virus Alert
Ok, you are going to see this a lot today, but my posts go onto the C# and VB home pages, so here...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/27/2004
Win32 API to .NET Framework mapping
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/win32map.asp This...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/26/2004
New Visual Basic home page design live...
Blog is on the home page, headlines re-vamped... check it out and let me know what you think....
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/26/2004
Just a quick reminder, VB6 upgrade chat tomorrow
MSDN Chat: Upgrading Visual Basic 6 Skills and Applications to Visual Basic .NET On January 27 at...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/26/2004
Data Access and Storage Developer Center now up...
A new developer center has been launched; msdn.microsoft.com/data/ covering both Data Access...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/26/2004
Multi MSDN Multimedia
A new .NET Rocks! has been posted: msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks/ In this, Mark's last show,...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/22/2004
New RSS Aggregator
I'm sure we all feel that the world needs another RSS Aggregator, and lucky for us... someone has...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/22/2004
Short but sweet little example from today's .NET Wire
I was just reading the latest dotnetwire newsletter and this article caught my eye. Synchronize...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/20/2004
CLR SPY
Adam Nathan (author of this book) and the overall master of Interop between managed and unmanaged...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/19/2004
Application Interop (.NET and J2EE)
Check out this info from the Patterns and Practices group on Microsoft .NET and J2EE...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/16/2004
Pretty cool new Webcast series coming for VB.NET
A series of 15 webcasts & lab exercises for the VB6 programmer... (see the full list here)MSDN...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/15/2004
More on that Halo Armor
Interview on Bungie's Site
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/15/2004
Update to the How-To for the Updater Application Block
I posted a walkthrough of using the Updater Application Block onto my blog back in the summer but...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/14/2004
Another interesting product from Roku
I was pretty impressed with the first Roku offering, a HDTV focused media player that included "art...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/13/2004
Animated Gifs in .NET
I hadn't noticed that the graphic classes in .NET had built-in support for animated gifs, but a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/12/2004
This would make a great halloween costume...
www.nightmarearmor.com/ Of course, since it is over $3000 USD, it won't be my costume anytime...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/08/2004
Back in Redmond
I'm back in town, but I was a little surprised to see snow all over the place... that is what I just...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/07/2004
Digital Media and Media Center Topics
I'm getting back into my column writing, and I'm looking for topic suggestions... I actually have a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 01/02/2004
Bandwidth Drought
I'm off in Winnipeg, visiting relatives for Christmas, and I've been experiencing severe bandwidth...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/23/2003
New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN
The latest 'issue' of my Coding 4 Fun column has been published to MSDN; Duncan Mackenzie describes...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/11/2003
SharpToolbox
Fabrice just sent me a note about SharpToolbox.com a huge directory of .NET tools and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/10/2003
Playing around
I've been playing with some serial port code lately, working out the details of controlling an LCD...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/07/2003
New MSDN TV 'episode' on FxCop
I'm a big FxCop fan, so I'm pretty happy to see this episode.... Code Correctness with FxCop Michael...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/05/2003
Comp Sci is cool
A neat little discussion about Random Number generators (or pseudo-random that is) has been...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/05/2003
Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads
Localized versions of the Visual Studio Bootstrapper are now available on the bootstrapper workspace...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/02/2003
C# Books Page Up
Check out msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/using/books/default.aspx for a small selection of books...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/01/2003
Windows Forms Reference Application
It happens to be an advertisment for Infragistics, but it looks pretty cool and shows off a bunch of...
Author: Duncanma Date: 12/01/2003
New Free Windows Forms Controls
Like a lot of other people, I've recently found Tim Dawson's Windows Forms controls along with a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/30/2003
My latest book is now available online
Written with the wonderful assistance of Erik Porter, Joel Semeniuk and Andy Baron, this book is...
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/30/2003
Halo for the PC
I'm getting a little tired of playing with people I don't know... so if anyone is into playing Halo...
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/27/2003
A flexible line graph class library in C#
A pretty cool library for drawing 2D graphs, with a demo project and an associated article, appeared...
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/27/2003
Visual C# "Whidbey": Language Enhancements
If you think we are talking about Whidbey too much... don't read this post :)The powerpoints and...
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/27/2003
New Article up on the Visual Basic developer center...
Exploring the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit by Joel Semeniuk
Author: Duncanma Date: 11/26/2003