Section: Blogs

Draft posts… what should they display for ‘date posted’?

Jun 8, 2004 1 min.

I’ve been using unpublished posts as a way to create planned blog posts for later… then, when I have a chance I go back and finish them up and mark them as ‘Published’… but I just noticed that when I do that, the published date is the date on which I originally created the unpublished post. I can certainly understand why that is, but I’m curious as what everyone else expects?

I’m playing around a bit…

Jun 8, 2004 1 min.

I’ve added some functionality to my personal site because I now have SQL Server available on the back end… so, as a test, I’ve put a voting component onto the home page at http://www.duncanmackenzie.net … I plan to add some features to it (like ‘just show me the results, I don’t want to vote’), but for now feel free to check it out as it is. Note that, at the moment, I am just using the component that is in use on www.

Outlook programming article now available…

Jun 8, 2004 1 min.

It has been up for a few days now, but in case you haven’t found it yet… Andrew Troelsen has written a good article on programming Outlook with C#, covering using the object model and building Add-ins… An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using C# The Add-In is particularly cool for those of us who are Outlook obsessed…

Greggm describes how to debug ASP.NET as a non-admin…

Jun 6, 2004 1 min.

For most folks working with ASP.NET, this should be taken as **essential information**... Don't let the Whidbey reference in the first paragraph fool you, by the way, this post describes how to accomplish debugging as a non-admin in _Visual Studio .NET 2003_. Debugging an ASP.NET application as a non-admin _The debugger team has gotten many requests to debug ASP.NET applications as a non-admin. In Whidbey, the ASP.NET team did a good job solving this problem.

Whidbey docs up on MSDN’s lab servers…

Jun 6, 2004 1 min.

Check out this link to go right to the VB section… lots of great info in there… or check out the C# section here. (found via the VSTO2 blog…) Note that this is not a prototype of the next version of MSDN… it is intended to be consumed by the internal browser in Visual Studio… so the non-IE issues mentioned in the comments and the lack of index/search/etc… are really non-issues considering how this material is intended to be used.

Paul Vick discusses Nullable Types in the Whidbey release of Visual Basic

Jun 5, 2004 1 min.

You may have been hearing a bit about nullable types in Whidbey (a feature in both VB and C#) but you should read this post by Paul to get an explanation of what they are, how they work and why they are useful… all from a VB point of view! **The Truth about Nullable Types and VB...** ** ** _There's been a little confusion about how VB's going to handle nullable types in VB 2005, so let me try and amplify a little bit on the _ [ _entry on the VB team blog_ ](http://blogs.

Early & Adopter fill you in on “Application Level Events”

Jun 5, 2004 1 min.

The 3 Leaf guys, (well probably just one of them… but who knows which one), talk about “Application Level Events” in Whidbey Here’s a code snippet to illustrate what they are talking about… something that I like to think of as “Global.asa” (I haven’t done a lot of web work since ASP) for Windows applications… Namespace My Partial Friend Class MyApplication Private Sub MyApplication_Shutdown(ByVal Sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.

Paul is looking for a list of the ‘best’ VB Bloggers…

Jun 3, 2004 1 min.

**Who are the best VB bloggers?{#viewpost.ascx_TitleUrl} ** A while ago Eric asked “Who are the best C# bloggers external to MS?” which sparked a similar question in my own mind: Who are the best VB bloggers external to MS? I have my own opinions, but I’m interested to see who people find helpful and/or interesting. Just add your comments and I’ll post a list later this months… posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:27 AM

Paul Vick discusses the question that just won’t go away… VB or C#?

Jun 1, 2004 1 min.

I get this question a lot, and I explain many of the same things that Paul goes through in this post, so I’d love it if more people would read this material: The "native" .NET language? _In the comments on my _[_post on language choice_](http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/05/28/1085.aspx)_, Patrick asked “isn't C# the language that's most ‘native' to the .NET environment?” Christopher then follows up with a related question as to whether developers should use functions in the System namespace instead of ones in the Microsoft.