OK, this is not supposed to be one of those C# vs. VB.NET bashing contests, so please don’t let it turn into such.  I’m planning on creating a series of posts on areas where when you port code from...

But coding is sooo much fun! Tonight (ummm, and this morning) I’ve been working to clean up the Solitaire application that I’ve ported to VB.NET. Of course, as I’m going through the code, I’m seein...

Obviously you can’t please everyone all the time and, at some point, some of those people might start sending you what equates to hate mail. After close to 10,000 people using XboxFriends, I’ve rec...

In my last post, I forgot to mention the Coding Guidelines for VB.NET that I’ve been working on. I see a lot of code from many sources as I’m sure all of you are. Every sample, even coming from th...

I’ve been working on a couple of projects and looking for some feedback as to what you would like to see me finish first (sure, it’s a teaser of sorts, but really, I would like to hear what you wou...

I’ve gotten a bit of feedback from people saying I should have a some sympathy for people who have all of their business assets tied up in VB6 code. I’ve even been borderline accused of not being a...

No wonder people give us VB guys a hard time… we even cause problems among ourselves. What’s it this time? Well, I just don’t get this whole keep VB6 thing. Let’s look at a couple of things, shall...

Well, whatever you want to call it, I’ve been thinking about trying to organize something like this for a while now. Did some searching and there’s GeekDinner.com (which has seen no updates since J...

<>…well, actually, computers. Earlier the week I received an newsletter from Stardock Corporation, the creators of WindowBlinds, DesktopX and Object Desktop. In that newsletter was mention o...

As I’ve stated before, I do make mistakes ;-) I have an application that I’ve written for my employer that appears, under certain unidentified circumstances to have a very slow memory leak. While ...