GotDotNet User Samples area gets a facelift
Mar 7, 2003 1 min.
The GDN User Samples area has been radically updated into what I find to be a much more useful interface…. [ check it out! ](http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/usersamples/)
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GotDotNet User Samples area gets a facelift
Mar 7, 2003 1 min.
The GDN User Samples area has been radically updated into what I find to be a much more useful interface…. [ check it out! ](http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/usersamples/)
Mar 7, 2003 1 min.
Boy these are going up fast… A new episode featuring Omar Khan from the Visual Studio .NET team has been posted. This is the second part to the episode posted on Tuesday. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030306VSNETOK/manifest.xml Visual Studio .NET Web Project Tips – Part 2 Get an explanation of different ways to deploy your Visual Studio .NET Web applications to other machines. Omar Khan discusses the easy way to use the “Copy Project” command, and also more advanced methods such as creating a Web project setup.
Coding and Going to the Grocery Store
Mar 4, 2003 2 min.
Greg Robinson’s comments today were quite timely, I had been thinking much the same thing myself… Often, and I find it happens more and more these days, I will go to find something on the Internet, or buy something at the grocery store, and I end up doing everything but the task I intended to accomplish. This appears to be normal human behaviour, but it can be quite disturbing if you are short on time and have a lot of things that need to get done.
Mar 2, 2003 3 min.
[ Jimski ](http://dotnetweblogs.com/JArnold) [ blogged about the IDE ](http://dotnetweblogs.com/JArnold/posts/2740.aspx) the other day… since I am a writer for MSDN and other places, this a topic that I’ve thought about quite a bit… sadly, the only real solution seems to be posting code that works with both situations (VS.NET and non-VS.NET) because posting code that doesn’t work well in the Windows Forms designer is a bad-experience for people using VS.NET and designer-generated code produces a bad experience for those who are not using VS.
Mar 1, 2003 1 min.
I only have one firewire device, my camcorder, and 2 ports on my machine… but I think I should get this anyway… the eyes light-up when it is connected to your 1394 port! Now, if they had one that was a network hub, it would be cool and I might actually hook something into it.
Mar 1, 2003 1 min.
You can’t bind a Windows Forms DateTimePicker to a field that might contain DBNull… so I did this;/o:p /o:p public class DBDateTimePicker:DateTimePicker/o:p {/o:p /o:p public DBDateTimePicker()/o:p {/o:p ///o:p // TODO: Add constructor logic here/o:p ///o:p }/o:p /o:p public object DBValue/o:p {/o:p get/o:p {/o:p if (this.Checked)/o:p return base.Value;/o:p else/o:p return System.DBNull.Value;/o:p }/o:p set/o:p {/o:p if (System.Convert.IsDBNull(value))/o:p this.Checked=false;/o:p else/o:p this.Value = Convert.ToDateTime(value);/o:p }/o:p }/o:p }/o:p /o:p Then I bind to “DBValue” (instead of Value) and it appears to work fine… if it is null, it is unchecked and disabled, otherwise it is enabled and can be set to any normal date value… if you uncheck the box yourself, then the data field is set to DBNull…
Feb 28, 2003 1 min.
Whenever I shut down my laptop, it is a very painful experience… one by one I watch a series of programs die a painful death, as they refuse to shut down gracefully. The error messages about “Windows Stations” that are closing are very useful, but somehow the entire process (which sometimes involves clicking a few “End Task” buttons, and maybe even selecting Shut Down all over again because half of my system is still breathing) reminds me a lot of watching someone you love learning to drive with your stick-shift sportscar.
New Coding4Fun column is up…
Feb 28, 2003 1 min.
Background Copying Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes how to build a tool that uses the Background Intelligent Transfer Service features of Microsoft Windows XP to download large files over slow or intermittent links. [<font face="Trebuchet MS">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun02282003.asp ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun02282003.asp)
Feb 27, 2003 1 min.
Every time I go to a computer/electronics store I consider buying some mini-CD-Rs, but I have absolutely no reason to get them. But, I still look at them every time. I just want to burn something on them. Something that would fit into 210mb, something “cool” to send to a friend.. I’ll admit it, I just want to buy them because they look cute.
Feb 27, 2003 1 min.
This isn’t all that new, but I hadn’t tried it on myself before; duncan mackenzie is all man duncan mackenzie is one text that would work nicely duncan mackenzie is not exactly a new character in the realm of romance duncan mackenzie is the mackenzie of kintail duncan mackenzie is a masters of fine arts candidate in the printmedia department of the school of the art institute of chicago duncan mackenzie is indebted to the alberta foundation for the arts duncan mackenzie is a worthy re duncan mackenzie is the devil his duncan mackenzie is currently exhibiting in chicago duncan mackenzie is magic' well it fits around kinkladze's name and i think it sums up the way a lot of city fans feel about the way he plays the game duncan mackenzie is a microsoft certified solution developer for online business systems duncan mackenzie is an mcsd duncan mackenzie is a mcsd I’ve always had this suspicion I was “all man” but it is nice to have a computer system confirm it for me.