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Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:17 PM

Why?

Why aren't there any decent audio libraries for .NET? Don't get me wrong, it's nice that the framework supports some audio features in a very simple way if you want to just play something. However, if you need access to the audio data to manipulate
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:27 PM

Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 2

After running Vista x64 on another machine for a few days; installing various pieces of critical software and seeing that everything seemed to be working smoothly... I've made the full leap on my main desktop machine (the one that now has 4GB of memory).
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Friday, March 02, 2007 6:13 AM

It's 2:12am and I'm done with a new VS2005 Macro hack

I need to run it through it's paces, but I now have a VS2005 macro that will, whenever I successfully build a release mode project, package the project folder into a zip file named [ProjectName]_src_v[OutputAssemblyFileVersion].zip. And it doesn't
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:16 PM

Hmmm... Open Source recognizes VB... but Xbox 360 doesn't?

-- Begin Rant -- Now, I'm not sure what the “real” reason behind a decision (albiet a rumor, but I don't doubt it) of pulling the VB namespace from the modified Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 that is being done for the Xbox 360.
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Friday, June 23, 2006 1:05 PM

Not feelin' the VB love from Microsoft...

In the last two days, I've encountered at as many instances where certain members within Microsoft just ain't showin' us VB users any love. The latest Microsoft Download Notifications email states: Download the Complete DirectX SDK This software development
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:37 AM

Refactoring to debut in VB 2005!

Yes, you read that correctly! VB 2005 will have full support for refactoring in the form of a community edition of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 . Refactoring tools include: Rename ( Native to VB 2005, not a part of Refactor!. ) Reorder Parameters Extract
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Friday, June 18, 2004 6:30 PM

CodeSmith - Strongly-typed ArrayList collection for VB.NET

I've completed the conversion for the ArrayList.cst and IList.cst C# source files distributed with CodeSmith to VB.NET (all 2752 lines of it ;-) ). Assuming I don't have any conversion bugs left it in (I've done some testing and it's working great for
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:49 PM

Adventures in CodeSmith...

I forgot to mention on the list that I'm also working on converting some of the CodeSmith templates for generating strongly-typed ArrayList collections from C# to VB.NET. After some further adventures in the land of FxCop, I noticed that some of the conversion
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Friday, June 11, 2004 12:24 AM

VisualFavorites - A teaser screen capture.

The main menu and toolbars aren't completed just yet (more of a placeholder), worked on getting the general layout (which is all resizable) complete. Also got all the folder editing (new, rename, delete) via context menu and now include drag 'n drop folder
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:17 AM

New VB.NET sample application coming soon...

I'm now working on a utilitarian type application that will allow you to manage your Internet Explorer favorites in a much better way. Well, at least in a way that I find 'better'. ;-) I've been toying with this idea for a while and now it's begun. Since
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Sunday, June 06, 2004 4:00 AM

Hey... you haven't been doing a whole lot of VB.NET stuff lately...

This is a comment I received from someone in passing last week. Looking around, I have to agree with them :-( Not trying to make excuses, but I can say that my spare time lately has been very sparse with several projects. But, now that I've been made
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:45 AM

Obfuscation Tip of the Day - Embedded Resources

When loading embedded resources like bitmaps and icons from your assembly, such as using the following method as described by Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET (Chris Sells & Justin Gehtland): NotifyIcon1.Icon = New Icon( Me .GetType,
Posted by CorySmith | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:51 AM

Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!

Desaware has just announced that they are, in addition to bundling their products into two separate suites (.NET and COM versions), including FULL SOURCE CODE !!!!! This is incredible news. Considered to be one of the companies that pulls off the impossible
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