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7/11/2006 4:22:00 PM
Kent points us to a free ASP.NET control that pretties up any source code you output to your site... most systems I've used convert the code into html, but this one lets you leave it in its proper form (for downloading or copying to the user's clipboard) and does the coloring at runtime. Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: Visual Basic | Visual C# | Web Development
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4/22/2006 8:49:00 PM
Customizing VSTS to work exactly how you or your company needs it to isn't an easy job, but this toolkit should make it easier! VSTS Customization Toolkit with new Process Template Editor The Visual Studio Team System Customization Toolkit contains everything you need to graphically manage process templates, work item types and global lists. The latest release, the Process Template Editor, simplifies the customization of VSTS templates with an easy to use GUI. Start customizing today! ... [ read more ]
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2/8/2006 11:12:00 AM
My article about the My namespace was revamped and put out in a 'special bonus issue' of MSDN Magazine. Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: Visual Basic
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12/14/2005 8:33:00 PM
I've been working (as part of a large team!) on the new platform for MSDN, which is up and running at http://msdn2.microsoft.com ... and now you can see prototype versions of the MSDN home page ontop of that same platform. Check it out here [ http://beta.msdn.microsoft.com/default.aspx ]. The new home page demonstrates some of the personalization/profile features that will end up on the final MSDN site in the near future. Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: Visual Basic | .NET &nb ... [ read more ]
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11/16/2005 3:24:00 AM
You may have already noticed this, but the current build of MSDN2 has a bug in the way it colors VB code snippets, as you can see here (scroll down, there are quite a few problems in the code snippet coloring, see how many you can spot!)... turns out the code wasn't handling comments right, text in quotes, and it didn't have a full list of the VB keywords (so MsgBox was not recognized, for example). I've fixed it all up now (I think) so that code will work its way through review and test the ... [ read more ]
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10/28/2005 12:35:00 AM
I was reading the dotnetjunkies.com newsletter and I spotted these podcasts , a series of them that I have never noticed before, even though they definitely the kind of content I'd be interested in hearing.
Moving to .NET from VB6 and C++
Juval Lowy discusses the different perspectives that VB6 and C++ developers
bring to .NET including the challenges each group faces with the technology.
(MP3 audio, 16:32 mins.)
VB6 Glass Ceiling
.NET Software Legend Juval Lowy offers hi ... [ read more ]
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10/20/2005 11:03:00 AM
Free chapter on master pages from new ASP.NET 2.0 upgrade guide
Murach Books is offering a free chapter from their new book, Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Upgrader's Guide: VB Edition, at their web site at www.murach.com/books/ugvb/index.htm . Chapter 3, "How to use master pages," shows how to use the new ASP.NET 2.0 master pages feature to easily include banners, navigation menus, and other elements on all of the pages in a web application. It's a powerful, time-saving feature that most developers w ... [ read more ]
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10/18/2005 12:49:00 AM
Neil Enns of the MSBuild team has released the first of a series of posts about how MSBuild works within Visual Studio, how VS projects are used by MSBuild and basically everything you'd want to know about how the two systems interact. You can check out all the entries here , in order from most recent to oldest, as they are posted. Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: .NET | Visual Basic | Visual C#
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10/15/2005 11:44:00 AM
Kent's flair was cool... so I made my own, using his code of course, but targetting whatever feed you want... check out the source of this image and I'm sure you can figure out how to change the feed it is pointing to... Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: Coding4Fun | Visual Basic | Visual C#
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10/11/2005 10:26:00 PM
I've added Kent's flair to my site, just so I can be one of the cool kids in the class... Bookmark with del.icio.us Tags: Coding4Fun | Visual Basic
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10/2/2005 1:52:00 AM
Thanks to the work of Serge Baranovsky (the guy behind VBCity) a new site is up that aggregates content from various Visual Basic related sources, including personal and team blogs from both inside and outside of Microsoft. Check out the launch annoucement here , and check out the site as soon as you can.
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9/28/2005 11:04:00 PM
Back on the weblogs.asp.net site, I had posted an article on how to setup your application to work with the Application Updater from PAG, but that URL was having issues so I have reposted it up onto this site for anyone who might be looking around for it... http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma/articles/2812.aspx
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9/19/2005 9:32:00 PM
Now, to me, VB 2005 is the "future", and anything beyond that is really just coffee-break information to read briefly.... but I guess I wouldn't be a very good Microsoft person if I didn't start pushing the version-after-next version of our development tools before the next version has even shipped .
So, with that in mind, check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/ which, despite my comments, is quite a good pile of info on post-Whidbey VB features and even includes a download to ... [ read more ]
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9/15/2005 8:48:00 PM
I've played around with coding against the Messenger APIs before, but it seems that MSN has really gone all out now and released a bunch of information for coding against their search, messenger, mapping services, and more... check it out on MSDN as of today! http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/
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9/15/2005 1:06:00 PM
This is an interesting idea ... http://www.exceptioncollection.com/ , something that I've pondered before. .. I'd have to know more about it, in terms of the privacy and security of their data collection... before I could recommend it without any pause, but I would certainly take a look if you are building a widely distributed application (outside of a single company/enterprise), and I would probably try to integrate with the Exception handling/logging block from PAG.
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5/6/2005 9:12:00 AM
I've been messing around with using XSL to display RSS on MSDN, as a simpler alternative to a custom ASP.NET control, and while it works perfectly in the core case (display all the items in a feed in a format), there are two additional requirements that were very easy to handle in a .NET class, but trickier (for me) in XSL. Display the top n items Out of the full list, display n randomly picked items For the first, it was pretty easy... <xsl:if test="position < 6"> could b ... [ read more ]
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5/4/2005 11:07:00 AM
This should only be an issue if you've written code that checks for version=6, instead of version =>6, but that happens so you might want read the following blog entry about this new version.
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4/22/2005 11:07:00 AM
Ok, so the VB.NET 2003 version worked fine upgraded to 2005, with only one warning, but with the recent release of Beta 2 , I thought I should jump on the bandwagon like everyone else :) New .zip download linked from here
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4/17/2005 7:31:00 PM
If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you probably know about my column "Coding4Fun" , well now there is an entire site on MSDN going by that name... to be clear, this is not a site all about my column :) ... it is a site dedicated to the same concept though, hobbyist coding. Check it out at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun Update: way more details on the site available at Dan's blog...
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4/16/2005 9:52:00 PM
jf has been having issues with my control , and I have no idea why... if it will help, him or anyone else, there is the original version of the code and a test form available for download here Now, for jf specifically... feel free to email me your code and maybe I can see why it isn't working for you, thanks!
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4/15/2005 8:33:00 AM
It seems a few people had questions about the control I posted previously , so here are answers to two of the questions that people might be running into:
What about word wrapping? Good point, turns out I hadn't quite finished my code before I got distracted by food or coffee... and then I ended up leaving out word wrapping! You just need to modify 1 line to make wrapping work, though:
Change
g.DrawString(Me.Text, f, b, 0, 0, sf)
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g.DrawString(Me.Text, f, b, labelBounds, sf)
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4/14/2005 9:00:00 AM
I was mocking up a UI yesterday, and I wanted to produce an interface that looked like Front Page's "New from Template" dialog...
But I couldn't easily replicate those little dividers (for Options, Description, Preview), so I created a "DividerLabel" with about 10 minutes of VB.NET code (2003)...
And, if you are so inclined, you can set the text to nothing and you have a line!
The Code
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Windows.Forms
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4/12/2005 9:14:00 AM
Ok, this may seem really odd, but I swear it happened to me... :)
Yesterday I decided that I would hook up my headphones and listen to some music at work. I do this all the time at home, but not often in the office. I fired up media player on my laptop and started playing a variety of ripped WMA files. Then I opened up VS.NET 2003 and a fairly large project. I immediately got a bunch of errors about references and such, which was odd, since this project was working fine the last time I loaded ... [ read more ]
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4/12/2005 9:02:00 AM
I ran into a problem recently, where duplicate IDs were being generated by my offline ADO.NET code... and I had no real idea why this was happening. I had set up the primary key of my DataTable to have the following propery values:
AutoIncrement = true
AutoIncrementSeed = -1
AutoIncrementStep = -1
This is supposed to result in offline IDs being assigned as -1,-2,-3 and therefore having no possibility of conflict with any real IDs used in the database. This has worked great for ... [ read more ]
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