Duncan Mackenzie .NET

No picture at the moment, I was just happy to get it hooked up quickly before my son came home... it seems I can never hook up electronics correctly when he is 'helping' me :) […]

http://www.gamestay.com/ is a blog/site with info on all those topics, so you might want to check it out!

Ok, so the VB.NET 2003 version worked fine upgraded to 2005, with only one warning, but with the recent release of Beta 2, I thought I should jump on the bandwagon like everyone else :) New .zip download linked from here […]

Refactoring to debut in VB 2005!

Server Intellect, my web host and the folks that I called "the best hosting company I have ever worked with" have annouced that they now have ASP.NET Beta 2 hosting available... for free for anyone using one of their […]

Everytime Brian tells me something that involves his portable media center, I think about getting one. He has the Samsung model, which I really like the look/feel of and it seems to work well (although the length of transcoding is a reoccuring complaint), but my only real plan for getting one was to […]

I started writing this entry about "Giving advice on technology to friends and family...", but I realized after I had rambled on for a bit, that it was more about technology decisions... when companies force us to decide between MP3 and WMA or iTunes and WMP or even Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio or […]

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you probably know about my column "Coding4Fun", well now there is an entire site on MSDN going by that name... to be clear, this is not a site all about my column :) ... it is a site dedicated to the same concept though, hobbyist coding. Check it out at: ht […]

jf has been having issues with my control, and I have no idea why... if it will help, him or anyone else, there is the original version of the code and a test form available for download here Now, for jf specifically... feel free to email me your code and maybe I can see why it isn't working for you […]

It seems a few people had questions about the control I posted previously, so here are answers to two of the questions that people might be running into: […]

I was mocking up a UI yesterday, and I wanted to produce an interface that looked like Front Page's "New from Template" dialog... […]

Ok, this may seem really odd, but I swear it happened to me... :) […]

I ran into a problem recently, where duplicate IDs were being generated by my offline ADO.NET code... and I had no real idea why this was happening. I had set up the primary key of my DataTable to have the following propery values: […]

Of course, the iPod has been available (and widely publicized) through these free sites for a while (shuffle, regular/mini, or photo model all have their own sites), but if you are like me and you want to use a media player that works with more than one brand of device, or if you want to stick with […]

Scott Seely, a former MSDN co-worker of mine and now a member of the Indigo team, is working on a new Indigo book with Brian Nantz. The book won't be out for a while, but you can get a lot of advance information (including some of the chapters), by watching for updates on www.thatindigobook.com. Sho […]

That may not seem like a big deal to most MIcrosoft developers, since most of them write code for that exact purpose, but I have spent most of my time in Redmond writing sample code and even with my switch to development I'm focused on writing internal systems that are not likely to ever be exposed […]

There is even an accompanying article. Oh, and a challenge: The first person that can send me a history file that shows the gameplay getting to 1 piece left (with the default 8x8x2 game), I'll happily annouce it to the world (at least the readers of this site). Do you have what it takes? If yo […]

Looks like I have a new place to hang out and answer questions...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun […]

And I'm not trying to be casual... stupid thing is, I went for a run on Monday as part of a "Boot Camp" group fitness program, and it was probably my longest run in the last 12 years... and now my foot is just killing me when I put on my normal shoes. Turns out, when I put my running shoes back on […]

In my first post on this site, I mentioned an application that I wrote to copy blog posts from one .Text server to another. Overall, I didn't think the application had any real use after the web service I used was removed from the weblogs.asp.net servers, but I'm posting it anyway for anyone who mig […]