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Bandwidth Drought
Tuesday, December 23, 2003I'm off in Winnipeg, visiting relatives for Christmas, and I've been experiencing severe bandwidth issues. I brought my laptop along to do some work on my next book, check email and to play movies for my son, but I've barely even had it on. Dial-up isn't usually a problem for me, even though I have broadband, I use it in hotels all the time and it works fine for email, etc.... but I just haven't been able to get anything done this time around. It turns out that the issue is lack of a suitable time to get connected, not [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN
Thursday, December 11, 2003The latest 'issue' of my Coding 4 Fun column has been published to MSDN; Duncan Mackenzie describes how to control a serial-port–connected LCD panel using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET. It is probably worth mentioning that I have hidden a CRC16 class in the code download as well, so even if you aren't into hooking up an LCD panel, that CRC stuff might be of use! [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
SharpToolbox
Wednesday, December 10, 2003Fabrice just sent me a note about http://SharpToolbox.com a huge directory of .NET tools and resources ... pretty cool site that I hadn't noticed before. Great... now I have to dig through it all... I hate the thought that I've missed out on something neat. :) [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Playing around
Saturday, December 06, 2003I've been playing with some serial port code lately, working out the details of controlling an LCD Panel... I forsee an update to my music system very soon. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
New MSDN TV 'episode' on FxCop
Friday, December 05, 2003I'm a big FxCop fan, so I'm pretty happy to see this episode.... Code Correctness with FxCop Michael Murray and Jeffrey Van Gogh from the CLR Team describe FxCop, the freely-available code analysis tool from Microsoft. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Comp Sci is cool
Friday, December 05, 2003A neat little discussion about Random Number generators (or pseudo-random that is) has been happening on GDN for the last day or so, http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=169292&Page=1#169538neat stuff.... [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads
Tuesday, December 02, 2003Localized versions of the Visual Studio Bootstrapper are now available on the bootstrapper workspace including French, Spanish, German, Korean, Italian, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and English. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
C# Books Page Up
Monday, December 01, 2003Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/using/books/default.aspx for a small selection of books that I've found useful... and I'm always looking for suggestions! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Windows Forms Reference Application
Monday, December 01, 2003It happens to be an advertisment for Infragistics, but it looks pretty cool and shows off a bunch of the Application Blocks, so I'll be spending some time reading through it! Check it out [from Code Project] [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this
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