Duncan Mackenzie .NET

I was just at Redmond Town Center, an open-air mall, and I saw a bunch of folks wearing t-shirts that read "Joss Whedon is my master now" (see here and here) ... and I started thinking; how well does this movie have to do to get the show back? Should everyone who loves it go see the movie twice? thr […]

Back on the weblogs.asp.net site, I had posted an article on how to setup your application to work with the Application Updater from PAG, but that URL was having issues so I have reposted it up onto this site for anyone who might be looking around for it... http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/ […]

In an earlier post, I discussed the fact that the MSDN feeds were failing to validate due to a MIME type that included parameters (charset in this case, like 'text/html ;charset=utf-8'), but I also posted a query about this issue into the listserv for FeedValidator.org. Sam mentioned it on his blog, […]

The RSS generator for MSDN, creator of this feed, and many more ... has a small problem. Way upstream, when various people inside the company enter information about an upcoming headline, they have the ability to specify a URL to a download. The intent was for this to be a URL to an actual downloada […]

Kent Sharkey is one of the authors of the soon to be released Wiley Wrox book on Visual Basic 2005, and Brian Johnson's solo project on the XBox 360 is on its way as well... […]

Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software

Setting up the directory structureOk, so the first thing I did.. I created a little directory tree for my app on my machine, emulating the final configuration on a user's machine. I just made this tree on my desktop; […]

I noticed today that Gratis, the folks behind many of the more well-know "free stuff" sites have changed their name to "FreePay"... which seems like a much suckier name than Gratis. Gratis was simple, but yet meaningful. FreePay starts […]

Now, to me, VB 2005 is the "future", and anything beyond that is really just coffee-break information to read briefly.... but I guess I wouldn't be a very good Microsoft person if I didn't start pushing the version-after-next version of our development tools before the next version has even shipped. […]

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I've played around with coding against the Messenger APIs before, but it seems that MSN has really gone all out now and released a bunch of information for coding against their search, messenger, mapping services, and more... check it out on MSDN as of today! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/ […]

This is an interesting idea ... http://www.exceptioncollection.com/, something that I've pondered before... […]

I have no idea when this is coming out, but I have got to get one... I've tried various remote keyboards but this one seems much better designed for lap-based use, which is exactly what I'm aiming for...

My latest little “life adventure” got started on Wednesday last week… Brian and I had just grabbed coffees and I was back at my desk working through my list of bugs when I started to get a wicked ache in my gut. It was bad enough that I was having trouble concentrating so I headed home early and end […]