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I'm *really* excited to be at the PDC this year. I've been to a few PDCs in the past and I think that this one is going to be the best, by far. In addition to the great demos, panels, and meet the team events, there will be a lot of buzz and discussion about the future of the language, platform, and tools. For those of you who won't be able to make it to the PDC, you'll be able to watch it all unfold right on this very blog. For those of you who are lucky enough to watch it live, here's where ... [ read more ]
Please check out the new post on my blog , which talks about some of the VB teams plans, content, and highlights at PDC '05 this week.  Stay tuned for announcements & updates! --Paul Yuknewicz http://blogs.msdn.com/pauly/
I am writing this from the Los Angeles Convention Center, in Los Angeles, home of the PDC. I will be here all week, learning about what's coming in the future and also proctoring some Hands On Labs. I am officially proctoring SQL Server 2005 Hands On Labs but my good friend and former VB product team colleague Steve Lasker was on my flight down and he told me that there are VB Labs as well and that I wrote some of them back when I was on the VB team. So I think I can help proctor those as well ... [ read more ]
Hey, hey, hey Today I saw a post on forum about reading ID3 tags from an MP3 file. Remembering rjhare's  FAQ on the same subject  I'd thought I would knock up a .NET version. Simply put its a single class with one method called 'ReadMP3Details' that receives the filename of the MP3 and exposes properities for the Album, Song title, Artist, etc. It opens a FileStream accessing the file and uses a BinaryReader to read the data, it navigates to the end of the file where the tag da ... [ read more ]
While the publisher (Serge Baranovsky) tells me this site is not live yet, it seems to be another good place to extract VB-specific tips, techniques and comments.  
Yag 's blogging about the PDC and he's let the cat out of the bag ... well almost... That's right, this Friday stay tuned to your PC's for some amazing videos about the future of programming.  Paul Vick and Amanda Silver will rock your world with the amazing stuff they, Yag , Erik Meijer and countless others have been working on.  This is going to be really really BIG !!  Now you have been forewarned.  All you C# devotees, store up your antidepressants... you'll ne ... [ read more ]


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