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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Authors can't win

by via Rockford Lhotka on 8/11/2005 7:54:09 PM

Like any author who writes practical, pragmatic content I am constantly torn. Torn between showing how to write maintainable code vs fast code. Between distilling the essence of an idea vs showing a complete solution that might obscure that essence. Just at the moment I'm building a demo application, including its database. Do I create the best database I can, hopefully showing good database design techniques and subsequently showing how to write an app ag ... [ read more ] 17 comment(s)

Play an embedded WAV via a stream

by Mark Dryden via Drydo (Mark Dryden) on 8/11/2005 3:46:00 PM

Just a quickie. I keep seeing questions on the forum (www.vbcity.com/forum) about WAVs, Resource Files and all that malarkey and I'd thought I'll blog up the code for all sundry. Let it not be said that I am not a fan of Resource Files oh observers. Anyhoo, the codey will extract a WAV file at runtime and play the sound by passing the byte data to the sndPlaySound API function. Note: to include a WAV into your assembly, simply add the file (as an existing file) to your project and set its ... [ read more ]

Logo & Web site design - going with the professional!

by Serge Baranovsky via SergeB (Serge Baranovsky) on 8/11/2005 5:51:00 AM

Do I make mistakes? Yes I do! For a couple of years now the most embarrassing thing for our product web site SubMain.com was its design. When we were launching our first product two years ago I only had couple of nights to put together a web site. Mistake #1 - while we have put time for the Betas, bug fixing, etc, we should've not discounted the importance of the web site design and planned more time for that. I said to myself back then "Don't worry it d ... [ read more ] 3 comment(s)

PDC05 is filling up quickly

by Serge Baranovsky via SergeB (Serge Baranovsky) on 8/11/2005 3:09:00 AM

With over 4 weeks to go I tell for sure this year PDC is going to be sold out very soon. Microsoft has reached their PDC registration goal and already pulled all online advertisement. Over 7000 developers attended PDC in October 2003 and I will not be surprised if there will be even more this year. I was impressed by the quality of the PDC sessions back in 2003. And was a little disappointed when reviewed preliminary sessions list couple of months ago. But not anymore! Today I went to ... [ read more ] 2 comment(s)

Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters

by BradA via Brad Abrams on 8/11/2005 1:28:00 AM

When in a domain, a machine’s name is limited to 15 characters, but in a workgroup a machine name can be much longer. However, as one of our internal customers noticed, Environment.MachineName truncates after the first 15 characters. This is because Environment.ComputerName maps to NetBIOS name of the local computer and not the DNS host name. NetBIOS name is limited to MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH which is 15 for Windows (refer to winbase.h). You might want to look into ... [ read more ] 6 comment(s)

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