Duncan Mackenzie .NET

Like a lot of other people, I've recently found Tim Dawson's Windows Forms controls along with a great set of useful articles... I'm particularly impressed with the design-time support he has built into these controls. Check them out if you are into Windows Forms development! […]

Written with the wonderful assistance of Erik Porter, Joel Semeniuk and Andy Baron, this book is focused on the move from VB6 to VB.NET... check it out at Amazon.com […]

I'm getting a little tired of playing with people I don't know... so if anyone is into playing Halo feel free to try to track me down or if someone felt like it, we could even set up our own game(s)... my Halo name is, boringly enough, "Duncanma" so you can try to find me online using Game Spy […]

A pretty cool library for drawing 2D graphs, with a demo project and an associated article, appeared on Code Project last week... you might want to check it out. A flexible line graph class library in C# (Code Project) by JChampion […]

If you think we are talking about Whidbey too much... don't read this post :) […]

Exploring the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit by Joel Semeniuk

from Gus Perez (via Dan Fernandez); Gus wrote Space Invaders in C# (source). Sweet! […]

I use this program all the time, but I paved my machine recently and didn't have it installed... It took me awhile to figure out the web site for the tool, so I thought I would post it for everyone's enjoyment! […]

This isn't new, but it is new to me... http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/prodtechinfo/devtools/netcf/faq/default.aspx

From CodeProject.com (via James Avery's Blog); A Pretty Good Splash […]

I've received a few emails and blog comments wondering how to submit comments on the MSDN C# Developer Center, suggestions for new comments, etc. so I thought I would quickly mention that anyone who has any comment at all about the site should feel free to email me. There is also a Contact Us link o […]

If you were a big fan of programmable calculators in University (or highschool, I guess it depends on how much $$ you were willing to spend on a calculator back then) then you should like this; C# Programmable Calculator is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator with custom buttons programmable […]

Read it in his blog, it has some neat stuff around GDI+ that I might end up using in my music app...

Only a few bloggers listed so far, but more will be coming in the near future: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/community/blogs/default.aspx

We've been playing with some new developer center home page designs, and we decided to update the C# site first. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/ and let me know what you think... […]

Puppy Luppy just commented: Downloaded the SQL Server/Yukon Hands On Labs...can't find anything in the c:\Labs directory...as in: C:\Labs\DTS Lab\SourceQuery.sql C:\Labs\DTS Lab\DTSLabDimProduct.dtsx but didn't give an email address... so everyone gets to read my reply :) […]

For the next 6 months, many of the PDC Sessions will available at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm as streaming audio with synchronized PPT and demos. Check it out!!

This document provides an overview of the new features available for C# developers in Visual Studio "Whidbey". […]

I recently acquired a digital camera so I started thinking about a photo blog... something my family out in Winnipeg could subscribe to. A colleague, who has a camera phone, suggested textamerica, which seemed quite happy to accept my registration but I didn't go through with the sign up because it […]

I just read the description of this game on xbox.com, which I've done before ... then I read "Nov 2003" for a ship date. I swear I actually shivered... oooh. […]

Earlier today I posted some background pics... including some from www.dolomitesworld.com... Frank Redmond (Content Strategist for .NET Framework) just bust out laughing in my office because he thought I was posting backgrounds based on one of the […]

As a follow up my last post... I also found this fairly clear and simple explanation of using just SHAutoComplete (which is much easier than implementing IAutoComplete2) in your applications […]

I was playing with the SHAutoComplete API call and the IAutoComplete (2) interface last night (adding auto-complete to an application of mine) and I found a neat article and related component on CodeProject... C# does Shell, Part 4 by Arik PoznanskiThis article is about the AutoComplete features pr […]

I'm always looking for nice desktop backgrounds that are tasteful enough to display at work and searching on google (on this particular topic) just doesn't find that many high-quality sites, so I thought I'd post a few of my recent finds; […]

Ages ago, Scott Mitchell wrote the 1st of 6 articles on Data Structures in C#... and now it is finally up (through no fault of Scott's) […]

There was a little issue with our criteria for the VB feed, which has now been resolved... so you should notice that feed will have a fair bit more content going forward... all of it hopefully relevant to VB types (like me!)

Sam "blogger guy" Gentile has a new article up on MSDN: Beyond (COM) Add Reference: Has Anyone Seen the Bridge? […]

Anson Horton gave me this cool .NET component and source code last night so I've uploaded it to microsoft.com for your burning fun […]

Labs, Labs, get your labs here... […]

Nothing amazingly difficult about this task, but it was an interesting GotDotNet question posted today so I thought I would answer it here; […]

I was just browsing the chats page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats (boy, if ever a page was in need of an RSS feed, this would be it) and I noticed some really cool upcoming chats; […]

If you haven't checked it out yet, you should.. people are starting to post questions, file bugs and even get answers

Jan Gray talks about the update to the CLR Profiler We've just updated the CLRProfiler distribution. Once again, we're shipping both the source and the prebuilt binaries, and this time we're delighted to include a terrific ~100 page tutorial and reference manual written by the tool's author, Peter […]

It seems to me that you just have to be in technology to fully understand this comic; […]

My music system is finally hooked back up in my new house (after months of sitting unplugged) but I didn't have a network connection available for it. Well, the recent release of some new networking standards have made 802.11b adapters rather cheap so I picked one up today and went to install it ont […]

The Longhorn preview distributed at the PDC is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads for active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers as well as for Certified Partner and Breadth ISV/Empower members. […]

I updated a ton of sessions on the PDC site today, many (yep, I'm being vague... I don't have the details with me at the moment) sessions that didn't have slides do now.You may also notice that the location of the PPT files has changed... I moved them all to a different location (the download center […]

Julia appears to have lost something I downloaded and installed the VB Language Enhancements for Whidbey White Paper & code from an MSI and […]

Cory Smith posted about an upcoming session at the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, G. Andrew Duthie talking about ASP.NET (November 18th)... this sounds to me like a PDC-quality session, for free and with a lot more time for audience interaction.If you are in that part of the country, and you are inter […]

Ron Krauter posted this comment to one of my earlier posts; re: Reading Blogs... 11/2/2003 9:59 AM Ron Krauter […]

Logging Application Block […]

Erica doesn't have a blog, so I'm just trying to be helpful... […]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/csharp_generics.asp […]

Brad Abrams already mentioned these, but we are going to be linking to them from MSDN soon so I thought I would give out the microsoft.com URLs for these 2 images (one in jpg and PDF format); http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/2/f/a2fc47d2-8bdf-4977-8364-1f38b893dba5/LHArch_PDC2003.pnghttp://d […]

I had some drinks with Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn at the PDC and discovered that we are all audio freaks... and while our conversation was focused mostly on mixing boards and real-time noise filtering... we did talk a bit about their .NET "radio" show which is now available on MSDN! […]

It seems like I just got back from the PDC... I opened my laptop for the first time today, which isn't to say I wasn't working... I have email and access to update the various sites I'm working on from other machines... but I certainly wasn't coding. Anyway, the # of unread posts in SharpReader is […]