Duncan Mackenzie .NET

The VB team is interested in collecting some stats about how you use VB, so I put a simple survey up for them at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/visualbasicsurvey/, feel free to check it out if you are interested in providing information... For whoever is interested, I used the http://www.nsurvey.or […]

Advanced Basics: Digital Grandma […]

This page used to contain blog postings that I manually selected out of the mass of posts by members of the C# team, but (as with most manual processes) that didn't scale as more and more team members posted more and more content.... today, as one of my tidy-up acts as the former owner of that site, […]

Luckily or sadly, depending on your point of view, I will still be posting the occasional blog entry and responding to at least some of my email, but my output volume will be reduced for the next 4 weeks (thanks Microsoft!!). I'll be spending my time at home with the kids; […]

I stopped at Starbucks in Redmond today on my way into work, and the drive thru was really backed up so I decided to run inside. Well, that was lucky for me because I got to see and play with the latest expansion to their service offerings, the ability to

A month or so ago, Adam Nathan annouced the release of the Code Coverage edition of the .NET Framework 2.0 (Beta 1)... but I was chatting with him recently and he explained the rationale behind this release and really sold me on how you, the developer who will eventually be shipping production code […]

You may want to check them out at http://blogs.msdn.com/csharpfaq/category/7580.aspx

The discussion started with the question of 'what should you put into VSS, other than source code?' and it has grown from there... you can check it out here […]

Check it out at its GDN workspace

I guess I could have just added a category to my blog, but this works... http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/articles/rss.xml

Using the Edit and Continue Feature in C# 2.0 […]

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/express/ for full details, but here is a quick list of the winners: […]

When we originally added RSS feeds to the various developer centers on MSDN, we included a line (shown below) in the HTML of those pages that let browsers and other software know that there was a RSS feed available that was related to the content of the page. […]

Read Soma's post for more info...

Recently I transitioned the C# Content Strategist role over to Frank Redmond, but that was only the first of several changes for me at MSDN. Today, my boss made the rest of the changes public, so now I can talk about it :) I'm going to be leaving the Content Strategy team completely and joining t […]

I've been a bit busy lately, and it hasn't just been with MSDN work... there is a new addition to the Mackenzie family! Jada Elizabeth Mackenzie […]

Justin worked (and still works?) on the Terrarium system and uses that experience as an example as he discusses various gaming topics in his blog... including yesterday's post on creating random world content. […]

(via the Powertoys Blog) […]

I've been playing through x-men legends for the XBox, which has been a lot of fun... kinda like Gauntlet but with the X-Men ... it isn't as much fun right now though, because I went and got stuck :) […]

This is not about .NET. I just found a site full of information about standard patterns that are being used in user interfaces in both desktop applications and web sites, that I thought you folks might like. There's nothing new here. […]

(I'm kidding) […]

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I had written a new system for producing MSDN's RSS feeds, and those feeds are now live at the same URLs as the previous versions. You might get some duplicates in your aggregators, (since these are new feeds but with some overlap of items from the old feeds) but […]

As Chris already noticed, Charlie Kindel is discussing home data storage and home servers... both topics that interest me for about the same reasons as Chris. I'm a big fan of Windows Media Center, I have a ton of WMA files, digital photos, and I'm starting to have 3 seperate places where I store di […]

Mike Dimmick comments on SQL Server's licensing policy and compares it to Oracle... which puzzled me. I'm no licensing expert, but from my days in MCS I used to read up on Oracle a bit and it seemed to me that they used a similar model to ours in determining per-user licensing costs. So I looked it […]