Section: Blogs
Mar 19, 2003 1 min.
Wow, [ dotnetweblogs ](http://dotnetweblogs.com) is certainly the place to be… now [ Mike Harsh ](http://dotnetweblogs.com/mharsh/) is here too! Blogs are certainly proving to be an up-to-date source of info; I didn’t even know he had moved offices until I read it in his blog… and I work with the guy!
Mar 18, 2003 1 min.
I just read up a bit on the [ InstantKB.NET ](http://www.instantasp.co.uk/products/instantkb/default.aspx) product (after our own issues with over-using .NET, why does everyone else keep sticking it on their product names?) and it looks pretty cool. Between that, and the many other tools like it, including the [ ASP.NET starter kits ](http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=47) from [ www.asp.net ](http://www.asp.net) , I am starting to wish I had a site to build… all of these tool kits seem like wonderful ways to jump start a site!
Mar 18, 2003 1 min.
[ Joel ](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Jsemeniuk/posts/3952.aspx) has arrived on the blogging scene, but he doesn’t seem too sure he wants to be here 🙂
Mar 16, 2003 2 min.
I have been, since I started using .NET, a big supporter of the ‘Smart Client’ or ‘Rich Client’ application. I’ve talked about it to people, I’ve dug deep into the underlying technology, I’ve built samples… big fan of the whole idea . On a parallel track, I wrote several systems internal to MSDN using VB.NET and Windows Forms, but I didn’t make any of them into auto-deploying apps (aka no-touch apps, aka HREF EXEs, etc.
Visual Basic .NET 2003 Language Changes
Mar 15, 2003 1 min.
Although I’ll be the first to suggest it should have been up earlier, I wrote a short article about the new VB.NET 2003 language features… [ and it is up on MSDN now ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbconVisualBasicNET2003LanguageChanges.asp) .
Mar 14, 2003 2 min.
Early and Adopter seem to have just noticed my blog; Duncan Mackenzie Blogson [Duncan Mackenzie's](http://dotnetweblogs.com/duncanma/) blogging, and no one told me! (And why on earth does [he](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun01242003.asp) have C# code on his blog???) [**Sean ‘Early' Campbell & Scott ‘Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog**] and they raised a good question, why would I (I’m MSDN’s “Content Strategist” for VB, and an affirmed VB Lover) have C# code on my blog?
Not quite ready for prime-time
Mar 13, 2003 1 min.
I have a lot of code hanging around, and the techniques in that code would likely help people who are getting started with .NET, but I haven’t had to time to “polish” it up for public release… I’m starting to wonder, with the rapid pace of technology, if I should just release things as they are and tweak later if I have time… at least they will provide some benefit to some people.
IsNumeric, Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll, etc.
Mar 12, 2003 1 min.
Sean and Scott’s [ earlier posting ](http://radio.weblogs.com/0117167/2003/03/12.html#a178) on IsNumeric has resulted in a few comments… and I just need to chime in here, use Microsoft.VisualBasic! It is all IL in the end, right? This topic comes up over and over again on [ GotDotNet ](http://www.gotdotnet.com) , and I just want it to go away! Almost always, someone writes up and posts a C# implementation of IsNumeric that might be useful, but it is not equivalent to the function from this assembly.
Counting lines of code…. why?
Mar 12, 2003 2 min.
From time to time, when I’ve shown someone a system I built, I’ve been asked “How many lines of code is that?”… and my answer has always been the same… “I have no idea”. I’ve never even tried to count the lines of code in a project, and I have no idea why I would. Jason mentions in his post that some people have to account for their lines of code produced in a day and I think
Mar 8, 2003 1 min.
Whenever I have to code a “real” project, I end up building a bunch of components to deal with anything that seems likely to reoccur. Sometimes the class or Windows Forms control I’ve created never gets used again, but often I end up using them in a whole bunch of additional apps. Anyway, I think I’ll post some of these little bits of development work to my blog when it seems useful enough, and perhaps other developers will be able to find this code when they are looking for some help.