Site Archives for December 2004


January 2005 "Advanced Basics" column up on MSDN

Posted on December 14th

Yet another control development topic... this time I'm building a 'star rating' control, similar to what you find in Windows Media Player's UI... […]

Enter Instead of Tab

Posted on December 13th

I received another interesting, and common, question today about using Enter instead of (or in addition to) the Tab key to move the focus between fields on a form. Well, that isn't too hard to accomplish, but it can get tricky once you consider all the different situations... […]

Lead Developer position available with MSDN

Posted on December 13th

Just posted recently, there is a opening at MSDN for a "Software Development Engineering Lead". This is within the same group that I have just joined and it looks like a great job for the right person. Here is a brief snippet from the full job description.... Come leverage state-of-the-art techno […]

Follow up to 'drawing rotated text'

Posted on December 9th

The same programmer who ask for an example of rotated text is back with another interesting request; how to partially fill a circle from the bottom up... […]

DataGrid programming...

Posted on December 9th

Customizing the data grid (in Windows Forms) was always one of the most popular topics on the C# or VB developer centers, so I'm sure a lot of people will be interested in this article. It is in C#, so far, but if you'd like to see it in VB I'd suggest you email the writer (email at the bottom of […]

I just can't get enough Penny Arcade...

Posted on December 5th

He was talking about the generic bad guys in the new Prince of Persia game, but this line crosses into Halo, and it is so true... […]

Drawing rotated text...

Posted on December 2nd

A customer emailed me today (via the VB FAQ blog) with a question; "how can I output text at different angles, to write the cardinal points around a compass for example..." so I decided to fire up a quick sample […]