Section: Blogs

Just saw a concert… already have the live CD…

Jun 21, 2004 2 min.

It is like bootleg concert recordings but the quality is better and I had to pay for it 🙂 Tonight my wife and I went out to a Jewel Concert, which was great… although our position on the grass gave us a better view of one of the main support poles on the stage than of Jewel herself… and at the end of the show, we picked up our “Instant Live” CD of the concert (yes, the concert that had just ended).

Today’s Team Chat (Thursday 6/24 at 1pm Pacific Time) has been cancelled

Jun 20, 2004 1 min.

Update: This chat has been cancelled, sorry folks!! _Click here_ for details on the chat and check out Scott’s post on the subject (shown below) … _C# Team Chat: What we did at TechEd (Thurs 6/24, 1pm PST)__A few C# Program Managers (including myself) presented at TechEd 2004 in San Diego. We thought we'd have a _[_chat_](http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/#csharp_june24)_ where we could answer your questions if you didn't get them answered at TechEd, or perhaps try to allow people who weren't in San Diego to experience the magic.

Andy Pennell and Scott Nonnenberg are looking for your opinion…

Jun 18, 2004 1 min.

Debugger Window Menu Items: Where should they be? The VS debugger since 7.0 has put most debugger windows on the Debug menu, under the Windows sub-menu. I say ‘most' because the Output window lives on the View menu, under Other Windows sub-menu. Where do you expect debugger windows to be on the menu? (Ignore Output for now, we intend to fix that one independent of this). Your choices are: Where they have been since 7.

Replaced the Poll Component with my ‘new and improved’ one…

Jun 17, 2004 1 min.

Well, maybe not improved, but certainly more complicated… I setup my new data model, built a new voting component in Visual Basic, and put it up at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/ Eventually, once I’ve run it for awhile and worked out any kinks, this will turn into a published sample…

Mark Davis discusses a C# feature….

Jun 17, 2004 1 min.

and it isn’t about Whidbey, oh my… 🙂 Visual C# 2003 "Implement Interface" feature _Just discovered a great tip for Visual C# 2003._ _If you implement an interface (or event/delegate) on your class and don't want to type all the methods, just type the interface name in your class derivation list and Intellisense will display a tooltip saying “Press TAB to insert stubs for ”. Pressing ‘TAB' will insert stub method implemenations into your class.

Visual Basic Power Pack Article Up on MSDN

Jun 17, 2004 1 min.

If you follow other people’s blogs, then you’ve probably heard about the Power Pack by now, but I’m happy to annouce that the overview article (complete with pictures!!) is available on MSDN! Check it out by clicking here!

My MSDN Magazine article is up online…

Jun 17, 2004 1 min.

It is my first “Advanced Basics” column, describing how to create a databound radio button list… I hope you like it! Click here to view the article.

Ach… my reading list is growing too fast…

Jun 16, 2004 1 min.

Just today, I’ve added the new “Smart Client Offline Application Block” (from PAG), FotoVision, these articles by Cliff Atkinson about PowerPoint… and I brought home Murach’s “ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET” to start reading in my spare time… While all of these things, and especially that book, look great… adding 3 or 4 things a day without any scheduled time to work at reducing the list, just isn’t going to scale…