Duncan Mackenzie .NET

Ok, so here's the scoop... Robert Green, the Visual Basic PM focused on Community, is going to be in charge of the /community portion of the VB developer center on MSDN from now on... updating it, designing it, blogging about it, etc.... What does this mean? Well, for one thing it means a big change […]

Check out his post here; Extending the "My" Classes in VB 2005 ... Just Say NO! In case you're curious, I didn't really agree with Mike's title, nor with some of his statements, but that isn't to say that he is wrong... he makes a ton of great and completely accurate points; he and I just end up a […]

Dr. Ex(tensibility) posted this recently; […]

A few people asked about the code for that tool described in my first post on this new site, and I just wanted to reassure anyone who was interested that I would be posting the code soon... I actually ran into a couple of minor bugs in the transfer that I'd like to fix (or at least document) before […]

With the recent annoucements, I get to check something off of my personal wishlist.... Avalon (and some connected systems thing... "purple" I think it's called...) will be available on WinXP!! […]

Rotating Is Fun Duncan Mackenzie […]

Within a few hours of being up, I ran into this issue... odd, since it doesn't appear to be affecting very many folks... .Text Threading Bug...If you are one of the 7 regular readers here you might have noticed some problems over the last few weeks. Every so often .Text would display an error page w […]

Last night, I wrote up a little Visual Basic .NET app that uses the .Text web services and moved all my categories and posts to a new .Text server... […]

I've set up my own little .Text installation and I'm considering copying (not removing the existing versions) posts to my installation so that I still have a visible archive... has anyone done this before?

Recusive GetFiles for DirectoryInfo via a C# Iterator […]

Every day I get from 1 to 10 emails asking me various VB questions... some I answer by pointing to a link, some by providing code, and sometimes I just point people to the newsgroups or forums that exist for this type of question... but this time I thought I'd just post the question and answer into […]

Just up... Investigating Code Snippet Technology Andrew W. Troelsen […]

As I discussed in an earlier post, I wanted to know if people found preview articles useful... and at least a few people said they did, so here is another one.... […]

Serge Baranovsky, the man behind vbCity, just mentioned to me that they have started hosting blogs... just their staff at the moment, but they have plans to grow... Since vbCity is already one of the best sites for VB developers, this is good news! http://blogs.vbcity.com/ […]

The age-old question of 'how do I avoid putting funky Office HTML into my blog postings' came up on an internal email list today, and one of the answers was a pointer to http://stevemiller.net/PureText/, which I had never heard of... but […]

And maybe the Forums code too... Nothing against www.asp.net, but I'm just thinking it might be interesting to host my own blog... moving seems disruptive though, leaving a large number of my posts here, new ones there.... what do you folks think? Have you thought about hosting your own blog... are […]

One of the nice things about the Updater Application Block is that it was written to be quite extensible... I saw a post today where SamSantiago mentioned he had created a custom class to delete all those old versions on your machine whenever you do an update.... very cool, I'll be trying that out r […]

Soma (whose name you may or may not recognize) is in a position to know a lot about the future of Visual Basic (in his own words, from his intro post... "My name is Somasegar and I run the Developer Division at Microsoft."), so when he decides to post about it, it is probably worth a quick read... […]

I'm sure I'll be one of many commenting on this, but the recent updates to .Text on this site are a wonderful improvement. For the past while I had been unable to really sift out the good comments from the bad, so real (non-spam) comments to the VB or C# FAQ sites, and to this blog... were all being […]

A couple of weeks ago I posted my "Quick Poll" Coding 4 Fun column in its unedited form... was that useful? […]

Blurb copied using the cool "Blog This" link on the ondotnet pages :) Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 by Jesse Liberty -- For a couple of years now, Jesse Liberty been touting the Microsoft […]

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