Just noticed this press release from Microsoft stating that the core of WinFX will be made available on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (in addition to “Longhorn”). This means that an applicatio...

I’ve been somewhat following the Mono project for a while now. Of course, since I’m a VB developer… I’ve not taken the plunge just yet since the VB side of things has been moving slowly (with littl...

Erik Porter and I had some discussion via IM concerning his latest entry (where he gave me credit).  I noticed that he wasn’t using LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress when checking whether Visual Style...

<>I picked up a copy of the game during lunch today :-D, but am unable to play until later tonight since the Fort Worth .NET Users Group meeting is tonight. It’s a subject that I definitely w...

I found an excellent example written in C++ that showed how to do this using several methods suggested by many different sources to determine the information. I’ve converted the code to VB.NET so a...

I came across an excellent example that shows how to determine what editions and service pack level of the existing Microsoft .NET Framework is installed. Unfortunately for most of my readers, this...

A few people have already mentioned .NET 1.1 SP1 (in addition to .NET 1.0 SP3) being available as of 8/30/2004… but since I’ve been a little busy, I didn’t notice the availability until I updated a...

Someone asked so… Yes, I’m insanely fascinated with movie making in general and just plain love to watch movies and certain television series. I started collecting DVDs immediately after they star...

OK, so I’m a little late in getting this information out there… James beat me to the punch. I’ve been busy, ‘nuff said. Jason Bock has been searching for a new project to work on… and has settled ...

I’m kind of late in saying this, however, it does appear that Microsoft Xbox corrected one of my major complaints with Rally Sport Challenge 2. They’ve made it so that when racing against four peop...