Great article on the DataGrid control posted on CodeProject

Feb 21, 2004 1 min.

Provides a great introduction to creating your own custom columns and column styles…. including a drop-down column style, which is a very popular custom column for most folks!! DataGrid Zen Novice by Alastair Stell This project provides a 101 tour of the Windows Forms DataGrid Control, with emphasis on easy-to-use (and understand) customizations. You don’t have database connectivity? No problem, this project’s for you. We build a simple, memory-resident database using classes provided by ADO.

12 free sample training modules about .NET

Feb 20, 2004 1 min.

Free sample modules available from the following training courses… Programming with C# Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual C# .NET) Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual Basic .NET) Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft ASP.NET Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual C# .NET) Training integrated into the Visual Studio .

Just playing with Generics in Visual Basic Whidbey

Feb 20, 2004 1 min.

My simple class: Dim m_CustomerName As String Dim m_CustomerID As Integer Public Property CustomerName() As String Get Return m_CustomerName End Get Set(ByVal Value As String) m_CustomerName = Value End Set End Property Public Property CustomerID() As Integer Get Return m_CustomerID End Get Set(ByVal Value As Integer) m_CustomerID = Value End Set End Property End Class Then creating a Generic List and working with it: Dim myCustomers _ ** As New Generic.

Joel’s doing a webcast (well, 2 actually)

Feb 19, 2004 1 min.

Joel Semeniuk, (my former roommate, co-founder of my first software development company, and now a co-founder of Imaginets), is doing a security webcast for MSDN… something about ‘threat modeling’ or ‘model threatening’, I’m really not sure which, but I’m sure it will be entertaining either way.

Ninja Gaiden, where art thou Ninja Gaiden

Feb 19, 2004 1 min.

While I did manage to find some really nice desktop backgrounds at http://www.ninjagaidengame.com/NinjaGaiden/images/wallpaper/wallpaper3_1280.html, I didn’t find a release date for the game I’ve been waiting for… Now, considering who I work for, I’m not one to talk trash about a company for slipping in their software release schedule, but I was a little surprised in each case (they’ve slipped more than once on Ninja Gaiden) that I only heard about the slip after the planned release date had passed.

Robert Green’s VB Blog

Feb 19, 2004 1 min.

Robert Green, a PM on the Visual Basic team, has recently started up a blog… and he already has posted a bunch of cool Visual Basic Whidbey information! Check it out.

C# FTP Server sample up on GotDotNet

Feb 18, 2004 1 min.

A new sample was posted recently by Joel Pobar (a Program Manager in the CLR team) C# command line FTP server A lightweight implementation of the FTP RFC spec. Supports the following: Supports most of the common FTP commands that FTP clients like CuteFTP and LeechFTP support. Upload and download files Delete files Restrict a user to their home directory and further subdirectories. Late bind to a logging assembly (create your own logging infrastructure) It has not been tested from a security standpoint.

Debugging Chat Today!!!!

Feb 16, 2004 1 min.

Debugging Visual Basic .NET Applications Join members of the Visual Basic .NET and Debugging teams to discuss debugging Visual Basic .NET applications with the Visual Studio .NET Debugger. Almost every program will need to be debugged sometime, so take this opportunity to learn more about debugging from the experts. February 17th, 2004 at 1 – 2 pm Pacific time

Finally, the good ones coming to DVD

Feb 13, 2004 1 min.

“By the way, you might want to send a Valentine to George Lucas. His first “Star Wars” trilogy is the most-wanted stuff on DVD, and the big announcement of the week is that it’s finally coming in September.” from Mark Rahner at the Seattle Times…

Oooh, I always wanted to build one of those…

Feb 13, 2004 1 min.

Actually, I’ve always wanted to mimic something simpler, just the error message and a more button to see the stack trace… but this component would be wonderful during a beta release, or as something that can be toggled on by the troubleshooting developer… via Sijin Joseph Found some great components to integrate into my project. Error Dialog – I was always looking for a better way to show exceptions, one that could help the developer with debugging as well.