Site Archives for February 2004


Code Project just continues to amaze...

Posted on February 27th

I love the recently posted "Enhanced BrowseForFolder styled TreeView" (a C# control by Jerry Maguire), and the list of new content from the last week is just amazing; A Piano Key Control in C# - Leslie Sanford (a cool article if you are into control building) Code Access Security from the perspecti […]

Tonight's best posts...

Posted on February 27th

Forgive me in advance... I'm not posting about .NET, in fact I'm not going to say much at all except to post to two great posts Chris Sells: Same-Sex Marriages *Should* Be Allowed Harry Pierson: In Support of Gay Marriage and then to a little web-shop that I heard about tonight... if you are into t […]

A chapter from my KickStart VB.NET book is up on Code Project

Posted on February 27th

Hmm... I had no idea it was going up, but there it is... Click to read Chapter 3: Building Windows Applications The Way Things WereThe Windows Forms ModelHandling Events in .NETCoding Without Control ArraysConfiguring Your Form for ResizingProgramming Without Default Form InstancesWorking with Mul […]

MSDN TV episode on the IDE enhancements in C# Whidbey

Posted on February 25th

Dan Fernandez presents how Visual C# “Whidbey” will include several IDE enhancements including a first-class code editor with rich editing features, a powerful debugger, and drag-and-drop visual designers. Click here to check it out in this recent installment of MSDN TV!   […]

ASP.NET Resource Kit now available

Posted on February 25th

This bit of news is getting quite a bit of airplay, so you've likely heard already, but the ASP.NET Resource Kit is now available... full of tons of code, videos, free book chapters, white papers, controls, and more... how can you miss it? Click here for more information! […]

Oh geez... now I'm all hot and bothered

Posted on February 21st

Writing my last post started me thinking about the C64... and I found this page detailing software releases over the years the C64 was hot (really, it […]

Broderbund Software... and C#

Posted on February 21st

This is so cool, even if you might take it as mostly marketing (sorry in advance)... […]

Great article on the DataGrid control posted on CodeProject

Posted on February 21st

Provides a great introduction to creating your own custom columns and column styles.... including a drop-down column style, which is a very popular custom column for most folks!! DataGrid Zen Novice by Alastair Stell This project provides a 101 tour of the Windows Forms DataGrid Control, with emph […]

12 free sample training modules about .NET

Posted on February 20th

Free sample modules available from the following training courses... […]

Just playing with Generics in Visual Basic Whidbey

Posted on February 19th

My simple class: […]

Joel's doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)

Posted on February 19th

Joel Semeniuk, (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a co-founder of Imaginets), is doing a security webcast for MSDN... something about 'threat modeling' or 'model threatening', I'm really not sure which, but I'm sure it will be entertaining either way. […]

Ninja Gaiden, where art thou Ninja Gaiden

Posted on February 19th

While I did manage to find some really nice desktop backgrounds at http://www.ninjagaidengame.com/NinjaGaiden/images/wallpaper/wallpaper3_1280.html, I didn't find a release date for the game I've been waiting for... Now, considering who I work for, I'm not one to talk trash about a company for slipp […]

Robert Green's VB Blog

Posted on February 18th

Robert Green, a PM on the Visual Basic team, has recently started up a blog... and he already has posted a bunch of cool Visual Basic Whidbey information! Check it out. […]

C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet

Posted on February 18th

A new sample was posted recently by Joel Pobar (a Program Manager in the CLR team)C# command line FTP serverA lightweight implementation of the FTP RFC spec. Supports the following: Supports most of the common FTP commands that FTP clients like CuteFTP and LeechFTP support. Upload and download files […]

Debugging Chat Today!!!!

Posted on February 16th

Debugging Visual Basic .NET Applications Join members of the Visual Basic .NET and Debugging teams to discuss debugging Visual Basic .NET applications with the Visual Studio .NET Debugger. Almost every program will need to be debugged sometime, so take this opportunity to learn more about […]

Finally, the good ones coming to DVD

Posted on February 13th

"By the way, you might want to send a Valentine to George Lucas. His first "Star Wars" trilogy is the most-wanted stuff on DVD, and the big announcement of the week is that it's finally coming in September." from Mark Rahner at the Seattle Times... […]

Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those...

Posted on February 13th

Actually, I've always wanted to mimic something simpler, just the error message and a more button to see the stack trace... but this component would be wonderful during a beta release, or as something that can be toggled on by the troubleshooting developer... […]

New installment in Scott Mitchell's series on Data Structures

Posted on February 10th

Part 3: Binary Trees and BSTs […]

HTML Agility Pack

Posted on February 10th

I've seen this around before, and this post was from June 2003, but it is worth mentioning again! .NET Html Agility Pack: How to use malformed HTML just like it was well-formed XML... Here is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT. It is an assembly that […]

TreeMapping Your File System

Posted on February 9th

Cory Smith, one man Visual Basic evangelism team and owner-of-many-DVDs, discusses the MS Research TreeMap control and creating a Visual Basic .NET version of a code sample to "tree map" your hard drive. Check out his thoughts, and a nice screenshot here. […]

Yet Another Amazing Article from MSDN België & Luxemburg

Posted on February 8th

Getting Started with ObjectSpaces by Jan Tielens ObjectSpaces is one of the exciting features coming in the new version of .NET Framework, codename "Whidbey". This article will explain what ObjectSpaces are and will provide a step-by-step guide to a first experience with ObjectSpaces. […]

Allegiance Code now available....

Posted on February 8th

I loved Allegiance, it was beautiful, fun and incorporated a lot of neat multiplayer concepts that I enjoyed (like being able to have one player in a gun turret on your destroyer and another acting as the pilot).... but it withered away for some reason... I was never sure why, and a lot of its fans […]

8-Part Interview with Anders Hejlsberg

Posted on February 6th

On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners, editor-in-chief of Artima.com, met with Anders Hejlsberg in his office at Microsoft. Check out the entire eight-part interview here, or follow the links below to find each individual section. […]

Upcoming Visual Basic Chats

Posted on February 6th

Check out these chats on http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/ Using Windows Forms Controls in Visual Basic .NET […]

Ok, this is a spam generator... but you could win a Tablet PC!! :)

Posted on February 5th

I'm a bit reluctant to post this, and I'm sorry in advance to all of your friends, but you should think about your own best interest here (you could win a Tablet PC!!). […]

Microsoft Java Language Conversion Assistant 3.0 beta

Posted on February 4th

Get all the details on the 3.0 beta of the JLCA here including information on how to join the beta program.

David Hill explains and discusses "Smart Clients"

Posted on February 4th

What is a Smart Client anyway? […]

DirectX Drum Machine in C#

Posted on February 3rd

A version of this code appeared recently on MSDN Belux, and it was so cool I asked Ianier Munoz if he'd mind turning it into a column for my Coding 4 Fun series.... lucky for me, he said yes and here we areYou have got to check this one out... […]

Eric Gunnerson discusses Inlining

Posted on February 2nd

Why doesn't C# have an 'inline' keyword? […]

Some recent articles on C# Whidbey

Posted on February 2nd

From Dan Fernandez's Blog; Below are some recently released articles on C# Whidbey, definitely check them out […]

I love apps that get updates

Posted on February 2nd

I play Halo for the PC, and every time I get an update I am very excited... last time it meant a big reduction in the activities of team-killing losers, and I bet it will be equally cool next time. Lots of the applications on my machine have updates available, but unless they check on their own […]

Managed code samples from the Exchange SDK

Posted on February 1st

From KC Lemson's blog... ASP.Net samples of WebDAV against Exchange 2003 […]