Site Archives for December 2003


Bandwidth Drought

Posted on December 24th

I'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 […]

New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN

Posted on December 11th

The 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 […]

SharpToolbox

Posted on December 10th

Fabrice 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. […]

Playing around

Posted on December 7th

I've been playing with some serial port code lately, working out the details of controlling an LCD Panel...

New MSDN TV 'episode' on FxCop

Posted on December 5th

I'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. […]

Comp Sci is cool

Posted on December 5th

A 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.... […]

Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads

Posted on December 2nd

Localized 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.

C# Books Page Up

Posted on December 2nd

Check 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!

Windows Forms Reference Application

Posted on December 1st

It 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] […]