Site Archives for August 2003


Laziness .NET -- the Professional Edition

Posted on August 29th

Back in June I published a column showing you how to make a simple Pocket PC remote for Windows Media player. I didn't know it at the time, but some of my readers have sent in links to a professional version of the same idea. Built using the .NET Framework 1.1 and C#, Zerama looks amazing... everyth […]

New "Coding 4 Fun" article is up...

Posted on August 20th

Should be up and live already so here is the URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun08222003.asp If you diff this article with the pieces from my blog... you will see the work of Henry Borys, the excellent editor of these […]

Updating the Updater

Posted on August 13th

I've been using the Application Updater Block, as you may have gathered from some of my previous posts, and I like it a lot... but I've been wanting to add a few features to it. Well, I have it all […]

And now for the last...

Posted on August 12th

With this final bit of text, this is the whole article... before any of your comments... and before my wonderful editor (Henry Borys) has attacked it. If you were to take the content from these blog entries and diff it with the published article... you'll see the amazing impact that a good editor […]

Finally got back to the article

Posted on August 12th

Thanks to everyone who emailed me and offered to help... but the problem was time, not technical... despite my joke about working on the cool stuff first, a ton of high-priority stuff has made me weeks late on my article! […]