Section: Blogs
Jul 23, 2004 1 min.
From their site… _"ReSharper is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 that brings intelligent C# coding assistance, real-time error highlighting, and refactoring features to this popular development platform."_ More info here…
Thanks Bill… Vaughn that is, not that other guy…
Jul 22, 2004 2 min.
I noticed yesterday that my poll wasn’t showing the question on the top of the list of choices, or the list of results. Viewing the source made it pretty obvious the asp:label was rendering, but that it was empty. Checking my code everything seemed fine, but when I retrieved the poll details through a Stored Proc I was using an Output param for the question text and it was always blank.
Don’t ask me why, but I’ve become the official forum for Spiderman 2
Jul 21, 2004 1 min.
I blame google. (250 + comments so far, not counting the ones I’ve had to remove)
Previewing my “Quick Vote” article…
Jul 21, 2004 1 min.
I’ve put the draft of my next Coding 4 Fun column (‘Duncan Mackenzie describes his process to build a “Quick Poll” using Visual Basic and ASP.NET.‘) up onto my personal site, click here to check it out.
Jul 20, 2004 1 min.
I’ve been thinking about books and the MSDN developer centers for some time… I’ve been wondering what we should do in terms of highlighting books on the MSDN site. Do you want reviews? Top x Books by topic area (Beginning VB.NET, Data Access, Windows Forms, Language Focused…)? How would “Top” be determined though? Top could be sales #s, votes on some sort of dynamic site (which one, who should host this… INETA, http://www.
We have a bit of a cluster in my poll results…
Jul 20, 2004 1 min.
I’m running a poll on http://www.duncanmackenzie.net to see what topics I should write about next in my Coding 4 Fun column… There are 7 choices in total, but 3 are getting the lion’s share of the votes… Game Dev (a ‘battleship' networked game, etc..) 27% Web Development (like this polling component) 21% Windows Control Development 21% It seems these three categories are by far the most popular… with gaming leading the pack…
Stuck on a problem opening vbproj or csproj files…
Jul 19, 2004 1 min.
On my home dev box I couldn’t seem to open any of my projects (VB or C#), and whenever I tried I got this useful error; The application for project ‘C:\Documents and Settings\Duncanma\My Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ConsoleApplication1\ConsoleApplication1.vbproj' is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (.vbproj) is installed. All I could find on the internet was the suggestion that I must have just C# Standard installed and therefore didn’t have VB available… but that wasn’t it (I have VS.
Getting the right Printer Margin Bounds when working in Windows Forms…
Jul 19, 2004 1 min.
a Code Project link, via Darth Pedro’s blog… .NET: Printer Margin Bounds in .NET There's a very good [Code Project](http://www.codeproject.com/) article by [Philippe Leybaert](http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?id=536673) on [getting the appropriate printer margin bounds ](http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DotNetprinterbounds.asp)so that what you print from you WinForms application will appear correctly. While **PrintPageEventArgs** has a property **MarginBounds**, this property doesn't account for the hard margins of your printer for left and right margins — although they do appear to have the top and bottom margins right.
Robert gives up an update on the VB.NET Power Pack
Jul 16, 2004 1 min.
VB Power Pack Update It’s been a little over a month since we shipped the Power Pack. As of this morning, the controls have been downloaded 17,401 times!! And there are more than 100 members of the Power Pack Workspace ([link](http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=167542e0-e435-4585-ae4f-c111fe60ed58)). Nathan Blecharczyk, an intern on the VB team for the summer, has been added as an Owner to help manage the Workspace. The community has contributed the following releases to supplement the controls: BlendPanel with shadow.
Partial types in Visual Basic .NET
Jul 16, 2004 1 min.
Partial types have come up a few times lately, and I wasn’t sure they had been explained/defined before… so, I stole some prose from another document on this topic, cut and pasted some VB code from VS 2005 and here you go