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- Going Native
- vbPixelGameEngine
- VB, Linux, Copilot, AI and a Meme
- Classic Solitaire
- Performance Optimization in Visual Basic .NET 2002
- Visual Basic .NET Internals 2003
- For Each IEnumerator Extension
- To Err Is Human
- Eject USB Drive via CMD
- Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6
- Format Drive via CMD
- Insane Idea #1
- VS Code Printing Free
- Busy, busy, busy!
- PropertyGrid DefaultValue for non-Const values?
- Performance Improvement - CInt(Fix(value))
- Site issues...
- Missing “Teredo” adapter…
- SUCCESS!–VB on Linux!
- Skype for Business invite not working?
- Updating to Windows 10 Frustration (Windows 8/8.1)
- Watching recorded TV with Windows Media Player
- What happened to “What U Hear”?
- (Re)Announcing BASICSIG!
- BASIC SIG (November 1st, 2016) - Are line numbers evil?
- BASIC SIG (August 4th, 2015)... has a new (real) home!
- Checkers Solitaire is now OSS
- I'm Going Open Source!
- Transition Physical Machine To Virtual
- Async/Await in a Console Application
- Further Adventures in WinRT - Part 1
- Helpful WinRT Samples
- Cross-Platform Development with the .NET Framework ("VB Core")
- WPF
- GW-BASIC 0.1.4
- GW-BASIC
- Cambridge, England, UK
- End of year wrap up (2011)
- BASIC - Status as of 2011-07-27
- VB10 vs VB6: Variants are not supported.
- VB10 vs VB6: Option Base
- BASIC - Status as of 2011-06-27.
- Back to BASIC!
- VB10 vs VB6: Dynamic Arrays Usage In Structures
- VB10 vs VB6: Array Lower Bounds
- VB10 vs VB6: Private Class Variables
- VB10 vs VB6: ByVal/ByRef within API calls.
- VB10 vs VB6: As Any
- VB10 vs VB6: VarPtr, StrPtr, ObjPtr
- VB10 vs VB6 (aka VFred vs Classic VB)
- Why?
- Action Movie Night - Wednesday, November 17th
- Thank you...
- Wow! I can't believe I found this code...
- Back...
- Touring through Northwest Arkansas
- WinForms ComboBox -> DevExpress ComboBoxEdit (migration)
- The *new* Star Trek
- San Diego ASP.NET SIG - May 19th, 6pm
- Looking for suggestions...
- INETA
- Open Letter to the ClickOnce team.
- Expired ClickOnce Certificate
- Linq - Episode 1
- Busy, busy, busy...
- Face Off: VCR vs DVR
- Console Event Handling
- A "Secret" Movie
- Technology Avalanche
- Comments are back!
- It's about time!
- GotDotNet, may you rest in peace
- "Blocked" by Windows Vista at startup? (Hack)
- Didn't go to Tech-Ed 2007?
- Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 3
- Tech-Ed 2007: My "Itinerary"
- All I can say is "Huh?"
- Grrrr... the web.
- .NET and Games
- Why Oh Why Microsoft Why Why Why
- Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 2
- Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 1
- Windows Vista "supports" 4GB of memory. Sure it does...
- Tulsa DNUG - Tonight
- Rising to the challenge!
- Michael Dunn - VSTS+MSDN Premium Promises Progress Report
- I need a few good artists!
- Going On Tour
- "Community Happens"
- My.Vista
- What's next? All restaurants will be Taco Bell!
- It's 2:12am and I'm done with a new VS2005 Macro hack
- My PC no longer suffers from Xbox 360 envy!
- How NOT to do single assembly deployment.
- Caleb Jenkins is giving away a Zune!
- Vista FUD Myth #4: My hardware won't support Windows Vista.
- Vista FUD Myth #3: Disabling Aero ("Glass") will speed up your computer.
- Vista FUD Myth #2: .NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications will not work.
- Vista FUD Myth #1: Visual Studio 2003 will not work on Vista.
- Expression confusion continues... by Microsoft
- Leveraging Windows Vista's Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) API in Visual Basic
- Concerning Windows Vista "Upgrades"
- Microsoft + Advertising + Crack = Hmmmmm
- WPF Development with Visual Studio 2005
- Windows Vista - Windows Explorer Folder Options
- Choices, Choices, Choices
- And the winner is...
- You snooze, you lose.
- Get back your "Run" command (Windows Vista)
- Installing "old" stuff on Windows Vista
- Comparing Apples To Apples (Revisited)
- Comparing Apples To Apples (The Myth Of Benchmarks)
- Cingular Wireless Customer Service Application = STUPID!!!
- What would you do for a Visual Studio 2005 (Team System Suite) and MSDN license?
- Windows Media Player 11
- Stuff, stuff and more stuff....
- .NET Framework 3.0 Available Today!
- XboxFriends + Community Server
- Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available this December
- Microsoft + Novell
- Community Server - Running *another* application in the CS folder
- Community Server Solution to "Can't Create Users"
- C# to VB Conversion/Translation
- Grrrr... Community Server
- Migration to Community Server 2.1
- Lot's o' stuff...
- Hmmm... Open Source recognizes VB... but Xbox 360 doesn't?
- Feelin' the open source VB love!
- Creating Smart Application Layouts with Windows Forms 2.0
- ToolTip Voodoo Applied
- Not feelin' the VB love from Microsoft...
- ClickOnce Tip of the Day
- Windows Forms + Vista
- Windows Vista...
- My Desk
- Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach
- ToolTip Voodoo
- Living in a Land of Obfuscation
- The "Big Bad Wolf" visited me...
- Grrrrr... Murphy's Law strikes again!
- Been really busy...
- And people say Microsoft isn't responsive...
- I know it's FREE... but still!!!!!!
- Where Am I?
- Inheritance vs. Partial (VB vs. C#)
- VB'ified (Definition Of...)
- DiamondDash - Boulderdash Clone in VB 2005 (Revised, yet again)
- Inheritance vs. Partial
- Watch "Recorded TV" on non-Windows MCE machines...
- Missed working for Google by 3 months...
- There is such a thing as being toooo paranoid...
- XboxFriends for the Desktop v1.1.0.70 (early beta)
- Xbox 360 or PC Gaming lag???... Take a look at this...
- SiN Episodes, NDA's and a Preview
- Google... smoogle...
- Adventures in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
- Holidays are over, back to work (as if it ever stopped)...
- Shooting down more Anti-VB'isms...
- (Rebuttal) Reason #458 Why Visual Basic.NET Sucks
- Didn't get to SiN on Sunday?
- Geek Gathering for December -- SiN Episodes.
- VB 2005 Gems #1
- Semper Fidelis or "SEMPER FI!"
- How fast does my page load?
- VB 2005 Snippet Annoyance - A solution...
- Xbox Live and MSN Messenger
- OK, this is, well, ummm, nifty... yeah... that's as good of a description as anything else.
- Here's your chance to laugh your *ss off at me...
- .NET 2.0 Redistributable... where to get?
- It... is... aaaallllliiiiiiiiiiiiive!
- OK, still mad at the Xbox.com folks, but...
- Hmmm... Free copy of VistaDB 2.1!
- Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 5
- Perfect example of what *NOT* to do... (Xbox)
- The OUTPUT Clause (Transact-SQL)
- It's so... functional... yeah... that's it.
- Gathering computer information using WMI
- Interesting survey results...
- Some people just don't have a clue...
- Documentation... Documentation... Documentation!
- "VB and C#"
- 5:00am and headed to the airport...
- VB Upgrade Tour (Follow-up)
- I really meant to get another post up, but...
- VB Upgrade Tour
- What else was I doing 10 years ago?
- Reflecting on the past, Looking forward to the future...
- Headed out the door...
- Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 4
- Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 3
- Tech-Ed Pre-Event
- Star Wars Episode III
- VB.NET Coding Guidelines Update
- Visual Studio 2005 Dev Con
- Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 2
- Bringing a 20 year old Draw command back to life...
- Solution Icons...
- Windows Forms: 5 Ways of Interaction Between Forms (New Article)
- Pop Quiz
- Refactoring to debut in VB 2005!
- Now for a "good" article discussing a comparison between .NET languages...
- Wow...
- Default Instances...
- I know I shouldn't let this sort of thing bother me...
- Porting Checkers Solitaire to PocketPC...
- Downloading Beta 2 ...
- I guess I just don't get it...
- Doh! Glad I didn't make the switch!
- Enigma Machine...
- Reminder: Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 1
- Checkers Solitaire... Wanna give it a go?
- Checkers Solitaire
- Windows Form application in Kiosk mode...
- Split'ing Strings and the Performance Implications
- Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 1
- What's wrong with this picture?
- Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.0 - Mixed feelings...
- VB.NET Coding Guidelines
- Solitaire (written in VB.NET)
- C#->VB.NET Porting Gotchas: Math
- Doh!... it's 2:41 am... I really need to get to bed.
- Does it mean success when you start getting hate mail?
- Coming Soon: Coding Guidelines for VB.NET
- Back to your regularly scheduled content...
- On the lack of sympathy for the VB.Classic crowd...
- VB.NET vs "VB.Classic" or "VB.COM"
- Geek Dinner... Geek Meet... Isn't there a better name for this sort of thing?
- Multiplicity... changing the way I use a computer...
- .NET Application Memory Flush via Interop - Revisited
- Windows Application Verifier
- Threading in VB.NET
- XboxFriends -> Open Source?
- Better late than never... My 'recent' FWDNUG presentation.
- Launch a program using different logon credentials using VB and CreateProcessWithLogon
- Saving these links so I can refer back to them in my "Mono" discussion...
- What is Microsoft's stance on Mono? (and... The Future of .NET)
- "Where you been?"
- Hmmm... my name is mentioned on the Mono site ;-)
- IsNot, Paul Vick, Amanda Silver and Software Patents
- Which is easier to read...
- Pop-Quiz - FileStream.ReadByte() returns what type of value?
- 30% off MaxVista thanks to Scott Hanselman
- Sometimes, people can really annoy you...
- Converting between String and Char arrays
- You know your in the zone....
- Knee deep in ASP.NET (XboxFriends.com)
- Extremely Simple TripleDES Encryption/Decryption with Base64 Encoding/Decoding.
- Windows XP MCE 2005 Upgrade Problems (and Solutions)
- Google Desktop... Uses 2.3GB of your drive???????????
- Let the countdown to having absolutely positively no life outside of the house begin...
- Date value and timezones via Web Services
- Format Code to HTML within a VS.NET 2K3 Macro (leveraging Microsoft Word)
- WinForms + Control Inheritance Tip (or at least a Reminder)
- XboxFriends and ASP.NET vs. WinForms
- Why is it that Europe seems to get all the Xbox Love????
- Halo 2 - Done!!!!!
- TreeView, ListView, Drag and Drop and Command Pattern Example
- Is Windows Forms technology dead?
- Avalon just became a whole lot more attractive!
- IsVisualStylesEnabled Revisited
- Star Wars: Battlefront - I have mine, you got yours?
- Need to programmatically determine what framework versions and service pack levels are installed?
- Microsoft .NET 1.1 SP1, .NET 1.0 SP3, XP SP2 and potential problems.
- Managing your DVD collection...
- Jason Bock does DotNetLanguages.net
- Rally Sport Challenge 2 - Voice communication fixed... Thoughts about update systems.
- Moved... mostly settled in and back online.
- Mostly moved... but still no internet connection :-(
- House hunting coming to a close...
- Do you recycle?
- Not much being said lately...
- EA Serve has been chosen as the new host for XboxFriends.com...
- Visual Favorites - Early Alpha Build
- MVP award!!!
- System Restore....
- To all .TEXT users... How to see referrers filtering out search engines.
- My name is Cory Smith, I make mistakes and am extremely proud of it!
- I'm probably going to make someone mad, but...
- CodeSmith - Strongly-typed ArrayList collection for VB.NET
- Protected Overridable properties in NotInheritable classes in VB.NET
- Adventures in CodeSmith...
- I've been blog robbed... I feel so violated...
- Working on a ton of things...
- XboxFriends.com will be moving to a new web server soon...
- VisualFavorites - A teaser screen capture.
- New VB.NET sample application coming soon...
- Duncan Mackenzie is just being downright cruel...
- Hey... you haven't been doing a whole lot of VB.NET stuff lately...
- Xbox Friends Thing - Needs a new home...
- [RANT] Sprint... (so where there any bet takers)
- Xbox Friends Thing... possible release later today.
- [RANT] Sprint PCS... ever heard of BizTalk, MTS, etc.?
- For those wondering why Xbox Friends Thing is not working...
- Xbox Live + MSN Integration + Alerts + New Website = Me Scrambling!!!
- [RANT] I'm in wireless phone hell (aka When automated systems fail the end user.)!
- Obfuscation Tip of the Day - Embedded Resources
- Xbox Friends Thing + Windows / MSN Messenger... Bringing the two together.
- Rally Sport Challenge 2... Gorgeous! Awesome game play! Impressive physics! What a disappointment...
- Xbox Friends Thing v1.0.6.0 Released
- A shameless plug and I get something for free?
- Xbox Friends Thing - New version on the horizon.
- Web Service Woes (OK, maybe it was just a little mud.)
- I love global community...
- Web-based Gamertag/MSN Banner image generator...
- Xbox Friends Thing - Displaying gameplay usage statistics...
- Web Service Woes (It's not land, it's quicksand!!!!!!)
- Web Service Woes (Ah... dry land... dry land at last!)
- Web Service Woes (A light at the end of the tunnel?)
- Web Service Woes (How to drive a developer MAD!)
- What have I been up to?
- Xbox Dashboard + Progressive Scan = About Time!
- Web Service Woes (Part 2)
- Web Service Woes (Plea For Help!!!!)
- ASP.NET Web Service Tip of the Day
- New article available....
- Exploring XML Serialization
- .TEXT .95 Upgrade complete...
- Upgrading to .TEXT .95...
- Damned if you do, Damned if you don't...
- XBOX Friends Thing - 100 in one month and growing!
- In defense of WindowsForms...
- TransControls (part 1 and 2) source now available for download!
- Due to popular demand...
- What's wrong with the following picture?
- DevDays 2004... Inspirational?
- Using COM? ReleaseComObject is your friend.
- VB.NET Whidbey - The TryCast operator.
- VB.NET Whidbey Release - The IsNot operator.
- Bug? Feature? You be the judge...
- Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!
- XBOX Friends v0.0.0.9 and XBOX Live 3.0 MSN Alerts and Messenger Integration
- Blog Censorship!!!!!
- CodeSmith 2.5 Officially Released
- .NET XBOX Live Night (Every Saturday) Reminder
- XBOX Live Friends Thingee (.NET Connected approvable - is that a word?)
- XBOX Friends List (Test Bed O' Fun)
- XBOX Friends List (Pre-Release Version)
- XBOX Live Friends List Watcher (Windows Forms)
- [How To] Check to see if Visual Styles are enabled
- Revenge Of DriveInfo (Drive Serial Numbers)
- Not something you see every day (in Fort Worth/Dallas)
- Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers
- Creating a Reusable Error Dialog for .NET Applications (VB.NET)
- Windows XP Visual Styles (Themes) [How To / RANT]
- Microsoft DevDays 2004 - March 8th - Dallas, TX
- My computer blew up in my face... literally!
- XBOX Live Night - Saturdays at 7pm (central)
- MS Research TreeMap.Net
- Coding 4 Fun Drum Machine (in VB.NET)
- Copyrights and Sample Usage [RANT]
- Windows XP NTFS file/share permissions...
- Paul Vick explains what 'enable optimizations' actually does...
- Structured Error Handling... My opinion on the subject.
- Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
- The Flu.... SUCKS!
- More on Remove Integer Overflow Checks
- VB.NET Performance Related Compiler Options
- VB.NET Performance Optimizations
- [ot] Test Your Digital IQ
- XBOX Live Gamertags
- More Contact Information
- New Coding 4 Fun Column - Serial Controlled LCD Panel with DBComm
- TransLabel and TransPanel's Revenge (Developing Owner Drawn User Controls - Part 2)
- New Article (Series) - Walkthrough: Developing Owner Drawn User Controls - Part 1 (TransPanel)
- .NET Application Memory Flush via Interop
- Whidbey replacements to existing .NET 1.1 methods
- Project Mono... VB.NET commitment! Finally!
- Project Gotham Racing 2
- MP3.com no more? Acquired by CNET.
- How to cause Visual Studio .NET run out of memory ;-)
- Virtual ListView (or "How to view 50,000 items in a ListView without dieing of old age.")
- Application Compatibility and future .NET versions
- G. Andrew Duthie in Fort Worth, TX
- Adventures in Win32/Interop - Episode 1
- Refactoring in VB.NET - Suggestions As Requested
- Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented (SlashDot) - Ummm... wrong!
- Refactoring/VB.NET - Two Options
- The whole Refactoring/VB.NET debate
- .NET Developer Tools Essential List
- Working with .TEXT (Part 4)
- Free PDC sessions on DVD!!!!
- Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace
- ControlArray component for .NET (similar VB6 control arrays)
- It's as if someone read my mind... or at least my blog!!!!
- I'm not exactly sure what Paul McCartney has to do with it, but...
- Windows Forms - Disable the Close Button
- Performance techniques for converting Object to structures
- AddressOf.com Articles
- GUID Generation and VB6 Binary Compatibility
- Working with .TEXT (Part 3)
- Working with .TEXT (Part 2)
- Congrats to CodeSmith creator, Eric Smith!
- Working with .TEXT (Part 1)
- Moving to .TEXT
- VB.NET's Try/Catch 'When' Clause
- How To: Secure Your Developer Workstation
- Microsoft CLR Profiler / DevPartner Profiler Community Edition
- Ed Kaim Experiment #1
- Visual Studio .NET Framework Bootstrapper Plug-in
- Thoughts on 'Mono-culture and the .NETwork effect'
- More on DirectShow/MPEG2 Troubles
- Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) aka 'Palladium'
- DirectShow and MPEG2 Video
- Windows Update Wierdness
- VB.NET gets unsigned types (finally!) :-)
- CLR, Startup, Shutdown, Today and Tomorrow...
- [insert language dajour here] vs VB
- Declare vs. DLLImport
- Making some noise with VB.NET
- VB is dead? NOT!
- Free Network 'Sniffer' Tools
- TechEd Bloggers get together at Hard Rock Cafe
- C# "out" modifier -> HowTo in VB.NET?
- Exploring Static variables (VB.NET)
- New CodeSmith release!
- Windows Application Verifier - Rah Roh! .NET doesn't qualify?
- VB.NET Internals Article - 8 out of 9 rating.
- Using CR and LF: The Options. (VB.NET)
- Community Starter Kit
- Sunscreen?
- Tip: Interop Structures - To String or to Char(), that is the question.
- Color your console output using VB.NET!
- Simple minimal windowless NotifyIcon sample
- Convert System.Array containing Int16 values to an Byte array?
- Tip: Read/Write Structures using FileStream
- Don Box considers VB.NET? :-)
- Chris Brumme discusses Asynchronous Operations
- Tip: Read Only Property via Interface - Read Write via Class.
- Dr. GUI has "got the blog bug"!
- HDTV and the antenna question
- Tip: Simple Comparer for sorting in VB.NET
- Tip: Use ILDASM for more than viewing IL
- MSDN TV - Resource Management with the CLR
- Official Microsoft Smart Devices Developer Community site
- Tip: Convert VS.NET 2003 projects to VS.NET 2002
- VB.NET - C# - VS.NET tutorials and walkthroughs.
- Terminator 3 Extreme Edition DVD includes HD WMV version!
- VS.NET Macro - Region Marker
- Microsoft's Community Support
- Shared Memory Wrapper for .NET
- Application config files explained!
- Coding4Fun Issue #4
- BlogX : Site.Config : Root
- Additional comments on angryCoder post.
- VS.NET "features" penalize VB.NET developers?
- Visual Studio .NET 2003 VB6->VB.NET Upgrade Wizard
- Concerning String.Length
- Some "slightly less than documented" Windows API's
- VB.NET string method to handle escape sequences.
- WM9 HD Format!!!!! Impressive doesn't quite describe it!
- VB.NET Wish
- CoolMon
- BlogX
- Hello World!