Section: Blogs
Oct 27, 2003 1 min.
Just noticed a post by Chris Johnson, http://weblogs.asp.net/cjohnson/posts/27887.aspx about serial port programming in .NET, he detailed the general lack of options, but I thought I should chime in…. If you get the Visual Basic Resource Kit, it includes a free control from Sax that provides an easy way to do serial port work using .NET…
Still in Seattle, but hopeful…
Oct 27, 2003 1 min.
I’m still at SeaTac, but I’ve given up on my flight to LA (which could turn out to be a mistake, but at this point… it isn’t a big risk) and I have a seat on a flight to another city in California (Palm Springs)… then it is time to rent a vehicle and head for LA… should be an interesting night. While I’m sitting here, I’ve been getting updates from a variety of MSFT folks who are here, those who are already in LA… and those that are stuck in other cities.
Ok… so I’m in the airport, but not moving any closer to LA at this point
Oct 26, 2003 1 min.
Flights are all delayed… smoke… hmm… flights to Juneau are still operating…
If you are into code samples…
Oct 26, 2003 1 min.
I put up a newly updated (updated for VS.NET 2003) set of 101 samples for C# and for VB.NET last night; C# Samples Visual Basic Samples
In the airport… drinking coffee… paying for wireless
Oct 26, 2003 1 min.
On my way, and I’m realizing that I have a bit of preperation to do… this whole trip has been so last minute, and I’ve been focused on building the web site that will appear at http://msdn.microsoft.com/pdc tomorrow, that I haven’t even looked at the conference schedule. To be honest, I’m only barely aware of what hotel I’m even staying at… I guess tonight is the night to regroup and make some plans for the week.
Hmmm… I hadn’t noticed that post
Oct 26, 2003 1 min.
Kent and his little sony pda/camera thingy…. hmmm… now where did I put that wma file of him playing his new musical instrument…
C# Team section now up on the C# Developer Center
Oct 24, 2003 1 min.
It has been a bit of work to get it down, but a team-driven section of the C# Developer Center is now available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team …
Oct 22, 2003 1 min.
Robert posted some good info about the new changes in GotDotNet Workspaces, and it was compelling enough that I went out and added aliases for my various workspaces! Visual Studio .NET Bootstrapper Plug-In is now http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vsBoot My Music System is now http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/musicxp The File System Objects workspace is http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/fso and my stagnant API Viewer workspace is http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/apiview
XML can so easily be abused…
Oct 22, 2003 3 min.
I am getting really tired of seeing web services (or RSS feeds, or .NET methods, or anything else) with large blocks of complex, structured data that is exposed as “String”. You call the web service, you get back this big string, which you then load into an XMLDocument and off you go (or XPath Navigator, etc…) … but if they had just defined the real structure in the first place, I wouldn’t have to do anything… I’d have a nice “weather” structure or “employee” object inside an “employees” collection… now, I can certainly massage/convert/deserialize their XML (well, I know it is XML, their wsdl says “String”) into a nice object collection, but why should I have to!
I think I’ve found a music service I can use…
Oct 22, 2003 1 min.
I’m going to buy an album as download-only today, from www.buymusic.com, and I hope it all works out as good as it sounds (no pun intended!). My biggest worry when downloading music from the various sites is that I won’t be able to fit the DRM requirements into my digital music lifestyle. I listen to music on my laptop, my home computer, on my music system PC, on my Rio WMA player and sometimes on CDs in the car… but most of the music sites out there (that I’ve visited) didn’t seem to allow all of those uses… but buymusic.