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Duncan Mackenzie has too much time on his hands
If you are into code samples...
I put up a newly updated (updated for VS.NET 2003) set of 101 samples for C# and for VB.NET last...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/26/2003
In the airport... drinking coffee... paying for wireless
On my way, and I'm realizing that I have a bit of preperation to do... this whole trip has been so...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/26/2003
Hmmm... I hadn't noticed that post
Kent and his little sony pda/camera thingy.... hmmm... now where did I put that wma file of him...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/25/2003
C# Team section now up on the C# Developer Center
It has been a bit of work to get it down, but a team-driven section of the C# Developer Center is...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/23/2003
Changes in GDN Workspaces
Robert posted some good info about the new changes in GotDotNet Workspaces, and it was compelling...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/22/2003
I think I've found a music service I can use...
I'm going to buy an album as download-only today, from www.buymusic.com, and I hope it all works out...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/21/2003
Turns out I am going after all...
I had planned on missing this year's PDC, because we had been planning on launching a new...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/21/2003
New VB article up from a fellow 'weblogs' author...
Darren Neimke, Mr. RegEx himself, has written a cool article that shows you how to create a fairly...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/15/2003
Pretty cool MSDN TV Topic up..
From: Erica WiechersSent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:05 PMSubject: New MSDN TV: Validating Business...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/14/2003
New Dancers... but still no 'Master Chief'?
Ok, maybe a night of Halo with my coworkers has skewed my perspective on this topic, but come on......
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/14/2003
Visual Studio .NET Bootstrapper Plug-In
The VS team has produced a 'preview' version of a new plug-in... Setup projects in Visual Studio...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/13/2003
Hmm... interesting side affect of Google AdSense
Now, it is helping me to find things! The blog page on my personal site has become stuck in...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/12/2003
Ok, so now I'm loading up Halo on my PC
I have to learn the keyboard/mouse commands, and quickly. My boss just sent out an invitation to a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/12/2003
Home Machine is up and "loaded for code..."
Kent used a phrase a few days ago "loaded for bear", and while I can't even really explain what it...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/11/2003
Adhoc and Random
I see by Kent's latest post that we've gone public with our new aliases.. in the great tradition of...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/10/2003
So many things going on at one time
It has been one of those days... so much content being worked on, almost none of it visible on MSDN...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/09/2003
Feeling the Cache Love
I've been working on the business and data layers for a web system and, as you might expect, I've...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/06/2003
I am definitely going to need more HD inputs on my TV
I have been drooling over this for that last few weeks... inner monologue: it doesn't do anything...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/05/2003
URLScan and the VB Resource Kit
I haven't tried this out myself, but Mark Hurd posted a useful comment to my VB Resource Kit post......
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/04/2003
Wonders of Windows Forms, and headshots of Chris Sells
I put Chris Sells's most recent article onto the C# home page today, which meant we needed a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/04/2003
Generating INSERT statements
When you are creating a SQL script to deploy your system, Enterprise Manager does a good job with...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/03/2003
Visual Basic Resource Kit Download Available
We've updated the page with the download URL already (some fast work on the part of our site team...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/01/2003
Visual Basic Resource Kit
The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a...
Author: Duncanma Date: 10/01/2003
Digital Destiny
Was it fate, or mere coincidence? Today, I checked out a little online message board where MSFT...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/29/2003
Single vs. Multi-File
Wow! Thanks for all the comments (you can stop now), I think I have a pretty good idea what you...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/29/2003
Anyone have time for a quick poll?
If you found a (really) cool download on MSDN, but it was 200+ mb, would you want it packaged for...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/29/2003
Displaying RSS on my own site
Kent recently wrote an ASP.NET control (ascx) to display the contents of an RSS feed onto a web page...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/28/2003
Great Quote from G. Andrew Duthie on Chris Sells Blog
Like Card, I earn much of my living on intellectual property, and I don't buy 90% of the arguments...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/17/2003
Hmmm.... and I thought ANTS was a profiling tool...
Nice to know my colleagues are keeping busy... (Listening To: Why Don't You Get A Job? [The...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/17/2003
Getting slightly caught up...
Well, I haven't produced anything of staggering brillance tonight, but I'm a little less behind on...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/15/2003
Ugh.. I want to code...
I have a bunch of writing to do, but what I really want to do is code! It turns out I have a bunch...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/14/2003
Some new MSDN links of note
You probably already subscribe to the MSDN RSS feeds, so this might be a duplication but here goes;...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/13/2003
Ok, some PDC marketing I'm happy to participate in...
No button on my blog yet, but this is great... www.gotdotnet.com/team/redvsblue/
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/13/2003
Hey, my glasses made it onto a blog
Kent has been posting pics and my glasses made it into the shot! Wow, this is pretty exciting, I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/11/2003
Hmm... maybe Chris Sells has a point, no more interviews at Microsoft
I took the test Chris has been talking about, ended up as an ENTJ as well... I didn't read the...
Author: Duncanma Date: 09/10/2003
Laziness .NET -- the Professional Edition
Back in June I published a column showing you how to make a simple Pocket PC remote for Windows...
Author: Duncanma Date: 08/29/2003
New "Coding 4 Fun" article is up...
Should be up and live already so here is the URL:...
Author: Duncanma Date: 08/20/2003
Updating the Updater
I've been using the Application Updater Block, as you may have gathered from some of my previous...
Author: Duncanma Date: 08/12/2003
And now for the last...
With this final bit of text, this is the whole article... before any of your comments... and before...
Author: Duncanma Date: 08/12/2003
Finally got back to the article
Thanks to everyone who emailed me and offered to help... but the problem was time, not technical......
Author: Duncanma Date: 08/12/2003
The article continued...
Continuing along with the rest of the article, I start to layout the basic design of what I am about...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/31/2003
Well, I'm not 100% sure I'll start writing my articles into the blog... but...
Here is a teaser for the article I am currently working on... Keeping Work Fun Duncan Mackenzie...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/30/2003
Random Blog thought...
What would you folks think if I wrote one of my MSDN articles in a serial fashion into my blog?...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/29/2003
New Blogs page on the MSDN Visual Basic Developer Center
I'm planning to revamp this page to include 'featured posts' (selected by me out of all the blogs I...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/26/2003
You learn something new everyday...
Ok, I know that Paul knew this, but did anyone else notice that the VB.NET Try...Catch syntax...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/25/2003
"Letter from the Editor" on the MSDN Developer Centers
Hey folks, I'm not sure if you've seen this section of the new MSDN Developer Centers...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/22/2003
Converting an Application to use the Application Updater Block from PAG
I recently took an internal MSDN application that I had been running as an HREF-EXE for some months...
Author: Duncanma Date: 07/17/2003