Duncan Mackenzie .NET

If you haven't seen them, check out the blog feeds visible on the PDC Central site. We've seen a problem where they sometimes show up blank... but it appears to be working fine now!

Swing by the Addison Wesley booth at the PDC, in addition to copies of my own sample chapter (which is probably the big reason to drop by there :) ), they have the new C# language specification book... that includes 2.0 features! […]

I've been catching up on a few blogs, now that I've finally managed to get connected :) ... […]

View in on the vbasic Developer Center...

We updated the PDC site for the week of the event, check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/...

Well, those demos have certainly floored me... but I must say I'm torn. […]

Arrived last night, which is sooner than some will be showing up, after flying to Palm Springs and driving up... which worked out quite well. A few moments after arriving, and getting hooked up to the Internet... I put up this letter onto the PDC site, just giving a few helpful bits of info for thos […]

Just noticed a post by Chris Johnson, http://weblogs.asp.net/cjohnson/posts/27887.aspx about serial port programming in .NET, he detailed the general lack of options, but I thought I should chime in.... If you get the Visual Basic Resource Kit, it includes a free control from Sax that provides an ea […]

I'm still at SeaTac, but I've given up on my flight to LA (which could turn out to be a mistake, but at this point... it isn't a big risk) and I have a seat on a flight to another city in California (Palm Springs)... then it is time to rent a vehicle and head for LA... should be an interesting […]

Flights are all delayed... smoke... hmm... flights to Juneau are still operating...

I put up a newly updated (updated for VS.NET 2003) set of 101 samples for C# and for VB.NET last night; C# SamplesVisual Basic Samples […]

On my way, and I'm realizing that I have a bit of preperation to do... this whole trip has been so last minute, and I've been focused on building the web site that will appear at http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc tomorrow, that I haven't even looked at the conference schedule. To be honest, I'm only […]

Kent and his little sony pda/camera thingy.... hmmm... now where did I put that wma file of him playing his new musical instrument...

It has been a bit of work to get it down, but a team-driven section of the C# Developer Center is now available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team ...

Robert posted some good info about the new changes in GotDotNet Workspaces, and it was compelling enough that I went out and added aliases for my various workspaces!Visual Studio .NET Bootstrapper Plug-In is now http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vsBootMy Music System is now http://workspaces.gotdotnet […]

I am getting really tired of seeing web services (or RSS feeds, or .NET methods, or anything else) with large blocks of complex, structured data that is exposed as "String". […]

I'm going to buy an album as download-only today, from www.buymusic.com, and I hope it all works out as good as it sounds (no pun intended!). My biggest worry when downloading music from the various sites is that I won't be able to fit the DRM requirements into my digital music lifestyle. I listen t […]

I had planned on missing this year's PDC, because we had been planning on launching a new application during that same week (one of many!!)... but now that particular launch has been postponed a bit so I'm free to attend! That wouldn't have made any difference though, since it is sold out (and yes, […]

Darren Neimke, Mr. RegEx himself, has written a cool article that shows you how to create a fairly generic markup system to turn text into marked up HTML based on keyword information stored in XML... cool stuff; […]

From: Erica Wiechers […]

Ok, maybe a night of Halo with my coworkers has skewed my perspective on this topic, but come on... wouldn't that just be the coolest... maybe the little alien guys, the chief, Cortona (not sure on the spelling for that one)... […]

The VS team has produced a 'preview' version of a new plug-in... […]

Now, it is helping me to find things! The blog page on my personal site has become stuck in DVI/HDTV/Component Video land after one of my posts, all of the ads are about HDTV related stuff... but, this just appeared and it looks pretty cool. Not the most visually appealing device, but I'm thinking t […]

I have to learn the keyboard/mouse commands, and quickly. My boss just sent out an invitation to a Halo PC LAN fest... so, while I managed to resist tempation for two days... now I just have no choice.

Kent used a phrase a few days ago "loaded for bear", and while I can't even really explain what it meant (though Google certainly can), it makes me laugh every time I think of it...Anyway, I recently bought a home machine (from Dell, because I realized that if I built it myself I would probably spen […]

I see by Kent's latest post that we've gone public with our new aliases.. in the great tradition of Early and Adopter, we have decided we should be known as 'adhoc and random'. Details won't be coming, but let's just say that we have a reputation at our workplace as being a bit too quick to write an […]

It has been one of those days... so much content being worked on, almost none of it visible on MSDN yet... but it is coming! […]

I've been working on the business and data layers for a web system and, as you might expect, I've been making quite a bit of use of ASP.NET's caching system. Now, to test the business layer, I had gone ahead and set up a non-ASP.NET caching system as well using my standard method for caching in […]

I have been drooling over this for that last few weeks... inner monologue: it doesn't do anything that I really need, and if I ever get around to hooking my current music system up with […]

I haven't tried this out myself, but Mark Hurd posted a useful comment to my VB Resource Kit post... […]

I put Chris Sells's most recent article onto the C# home page today, which meant we needed a 'feature' graphic... luckily we have another Chris on staff who handles our graphic needs (Chris Mowrer) and he whipped something up. […]

When you are creating a SQL script to deploy your system, Enterprise Manager does a good job with all of the schema (creating the tables, views, etc...) but doesn't handle creating INSERTS for any of your lookup tables. I used to generate SQL INSERT statements for my data using a SELECT (SELECT […]

We've updated the page with the download URL already (some fast work on the part of our site team there), so you might want to go back and check it out... […]

The download isn't up yet, it takes some time to sign and virus scan an entire CD packaged up as a zip, but the site that details what is included is there! […]