Section: Blogs
New Coding 4 Fun Column up on MSDN
Dec 12, 2003 1 min.
The latest ‘issue’ of my Coding 4 Fun column has been published to MSDN; Duncan Mackenzie describes how to control a serial-port–connected LCD panel using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET. It is probably worth mentioning that I have hidden a CRC16 class in the code download as well, so even if you aren’t into hooking up an LCD panel, that CRC stuff might be of use!
Dec 10, 2003 1 min.
Fabrice just sent me a note about http://SharpToolbox.com a huge directory of .NET tools and resources … pretty cool site that I hadn’t noticed before. Great… now I have to dig through it all… I hate the thought that I’ve missed out on something neat. 🙂
Dec 7, 2003 1 min.
I’ve been playing with some serial port code lately, working out the details of controlling an LCD Panel… I forsee an update to my music system very soon.
New MSDN TV ‘episode’ on FxCop
Dec 6, 2003 1 min.
I’m a big FxCop fan, so I’m pretty happy to see this episode…. Code Correctness with FxCop Michael Murray and Jeffrey Van Gogh from the CLR Team describe FxCop, the freely-available code analysis tool from Microsoft.
Dec 5, 2003 1 min.
A neat little discussion about Random Number generators (or pseudo-random that is) has been happening on GDN for the last day or so, http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx?id=169292&Page=1#169538 neat stuff….
Visual Studio Bootstrapper Downloads
Dec 3, 2003 1 min.
Localized versions of the Visual Studio Bootstrapper are now available on the bootstrapper workspace including French, Spanish, German, Korean, Italian, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and English.
Dec 2, 2003 1 min.
Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/using/books/default.aspx for a small selection of books that I’ve found useful… and I’m always looking for suggestions!
Windows Forms Reference Application
Dec 1, 2003 1 min.
It happens to be an advertisment for Infragistics, but it looks pretty cool and shows off a bunch of the Application Blocks, so I’ll be spending some time reading through it! Check it out [from Code Project]
New *Free* Windows Forms Controls
Dec 1, 2003 1 min.
Like a lot of other people, I’ve recently found Tim Dawson’s Windows Forms controls along with a great set of useful articles… I’m particularly impressed with the design-time support he has built into these controls. Check them out if you are into Windows Forms development!
My latest book is now available online
Nov 30, 2003 1 min.
Written with the wonderful assistance of Erik Porter, Joel Semeniuk and Andy Baron, this book is focused on the move from VB6 to VB.NET… check it out at Amazon.com