Duncan Mackenzie .NET

I have a home music system, that I have dubbed MusicXP (mostly because that is the name of the machine it is on, the actual app that runs is called "Shell.exe")... and I've been meaning to upload the full source for some time. I've covered bits and pieces of it in […]

We've posted a little "first look" at the new Developer Centers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/firstlook/ . These sites, well the vbasic one in particular are my world and we've been working hard at them for quite awhile. As the article at the end of that l […]

I've been working on code to pull the currently playing item out of Windows Media Player and in my quest I ran into this , a plug-in that pulls that value out and writes it to a ftp site of your choosing for display on the web ( here is mine )... s […]

It wasn't really supposed to be up until Friday, and I doubt you'll find any links to it anywhere on MSDN until next week, but you lucky readers of my blog can check out the next installment of Coding4Fun on MSDN now... […]

Kent's first day with my group (to avoid confusion: "my group" means the group I belong to, I don't manage anyone...) and he has already realized the truth about us. […]

I have to admit I haven't taken advantage of enough of VS.NET's capabilities... the ability to write macros alone should have resulted in a ton of useful little routines, but I have only written a few. One of the ones I use most often converts between a list of my internal member variables in a […]

clovett posted this sample  of a progress bar that does not progress to GDN at some point in the past and I had occasion to use it today. Using irrational coder logic, I decided that converting it to VB, so I could place it directly in my application, was faster tha […]

Ambient Devices […]

It seems he managed to get his cool shaped control library finished and uploaded ! Very cool stuff, especially if shaped apps like Windows Media Player, WinAmp, etc. have always appealed to you! […]

Wow, dotnetweblogs is certainly the place to be... now Mike Harsh is here too! Blogs are certainly proving to be an up-to-date source of info; I didn't even know he had moved offices until I read it in his blog... and I work with the guy […]

I just read up a bit on the InstantKB.NET product (after our own issues with over-using .NET, why does everyone else keep sticking it on their product names?) and it looks pretty cool. Between that, and the many other tools like it, including the ASP.NET s […]

Joel has arrived on the blogging scene, but he doesn't seem too sure he wants to be here :-)

I have been, since I started using .NET, a big supporter of the 'Smart Client' or 'Rich Client' application. I've talked about it to people, I've dug deep into the underlying technology, I've built samples... big fan of the whole idea . On a parallel track, I […]

Although I'll be the first to suggest it should have been up earlier, I wrote a short article about the new VB.NET 2003 language features... and it is up on MSDN now . […]

Early and Adopter seem to have just noticed my blog; […]

I have a lot of code hanging around, and the techniques in that code would likely help people who are getting started with .NET, but I haven't had to time to "polish" it up for public release... […]

Sean and Scott's earlier posting on IsNumeric has resulted in a few comments... and I just need to chime in here, use Microsoft.VisualBasic! It is all IL in the end, right? This topic comes up over and over again on GotDotNet , and I just want i […]

From time to time, when I've shown someone a system I built, I've been asked "How many lines of code is that?"... and my answer has always been the same... "I have no idea". […]

Whenever I have to code a "real" project, I end up building a bunch of components to deal with anything that seems likely to reoccur. Sometimes the class or Windows Forms control I've created never gets used again, but often I end up using them in a whole bunch of additional apps. Anyway, I thin […]

The GDN User Samples area has been radically updated into what I find to be a much more useful interface.... check it out! […]

Boy these are going up fast... […]

Greg Robinson's comments today were quite timely, I had been thinking much the same thing myself... Often, and I find it happens more and more these days, I will go to find something on the Internet, or buy something at the grocery store, and I end up doing everything but the task I intended to […]

Jimski blogged about the IDE the other day... since I am a writer for MSDN and other places, this a topic that I've thought about quite a bit... sadly, the only real solution seems to be posting code that works with both situations (VS.NET a […]

I only have one firewire device, my camcorder, and 2 ports on my machine... but I think I should get this anyway... the eyes light-up when it is connected to your 1394 port! […]