Duncan Mackenzie .NET

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Add a Quick Poll to Your Web Site […]

I'm playing around with my voting control and I was thinking of (in addition to a cookie based check) querying to see how recently this IP address had tried voting and if it was within 'x' seconds, rejecting the vote... […]

So, if you missed it... I was just playing with displaying a poll in the blog... don't worry, I won't make a habit of this :)... I did it using the spawn of evil an iframe... I've removed it now, the experiment is done... but it exposed an interesting problem. When viewed through the IFRAME IE's def […]

Not sure what scenarios this will be used to enable in the long run, but I might play around with some web services (with authentication) and a few 'prototypes' for articles and MSDN features that I've been musing about... […]

I was just talking with J.D. Meier (from PAG) about the Improving Application Security book and he pointed out a great page to me... the "Solutions At A Glance" list... this page lists a ton of very frequently asked questions around .NET security and provides links deep into all that great PAG secur […]

From their site... […]

I noticed yesterday that my poll wasn't showing the question on the top of the list of choices, or the list of results. Viewing the source made it pretty obvious the <asp:label> was rendering, but that it was empty. Checking my code everything seemed fine, but when I retrieved the poll details […]

I blame google.

I've put the draft of my next Coding 4 Fun column ('Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a "Quick Poll" using Visual Basic and ASP.NET.') up onto my personal site, click here to check it out.

I've been thinking about books and the MSDN developer centers for some time... I've been wondering what we should do in terms of highlighting books on the MSDN site. […]

I'm running a poll on http://www.duncanmackenzie.net to see what topics I should write about next in my Coding 4 Fun column... There are 7 choices in total, but 3 are getting the lion's […]

On my home dev box I couldn't seem to open any of my projects (VB or C#), and whenever I tried I got this useful error; […]

a Code Project link, via Darth Pedro's blog... […]

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Partial types have come up a few times lately, and I wasn't sure they had been explained/defined before... so, I stole some prose from another document on this topic, cut and pasted some VB code from VS 2005 and here you go […]

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In an earlier post, I mentioned that I use a trigger to update a "DateCreated" field in one of my tables... and various people commented on this... asking "why not pass in a value in your Insert?" or "why not use a default value?" Since I feel that replying to comments in the comments section is […]

This article, by John Kennedy, discusses the creation of an image editing application completely built with C# Express Edition. […]

One of the big reasons I redesigned the poll component, was so that I could track votes over time... I did this by adding a 'dateVoted' column to my vote table, and then using an “On Insert” trigger to set that column to the current date/time.... peachy keen, except when I exported the tables and st […]

Refactoring C# Code Using Visual Studio 2005 […]

Chats on Visual Basic 2005 […]

Defining and Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005 […]

Web Forms Development with Visual Basic .NET 2003 […]

In case you didn't notice this on the /vbasic home page... […]

Building Tools Using the Visual Studio Automation Model […]

Luke, a PM on the C# IDE team has started a blog... should be a good source of info, especially around the new Express Edition. Intro + C# Express […]