Fort Worth .NET Users Group
Well, the cats out of the bag. ;-). In an effort to improve our membership numbers in order to attract more speakers and sponsorship, the executive members of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group has b...
Well, the cats out of the bag. ;-). In an effort to improve our membership numbers in order to attract more speakers and sponsorship, the executive members of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group has b...
If you are using COM Interop from your .NET application, you really need to review the System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject method. Although setting COM object to Nothing would ...
Introducing the TryCast operator (similar to the as operator in C#). Paul Vick explains the specifics on this and I urge you to visit his site for further details. Suffice to say, this one is def...
Paul Vick explains that there will be a new IsNot operator coming in VB.NET. Although I don’t see a problem with this, I’m not sure having it will make any difference in my development life. Some...
While working on the xbox friends thing, I decided to create a clone of the user interface that Windows Messenger uses. It’s sort of like a tree view (or group box) and has a vertical scrollbar vi...
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. Consid...
New version of my XBOX Friends has been posted. If you were having problems getting this to run on your machine in the past, please refer to the installation notes on the download page for furt...
I’ve recently been a victim of blog censorship. Nothing I said was derogatory in any manner, unless you count me saying “WAAAAAAAAAH! Get over it!” as derogatory ;-). The issue is that I seriousl...
One of my fellow coders from days of yesteryear has released a new version of his excellent product, CodeSmith. It now includes an IDE (if you get the professional release). If you haven’t checke...
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow night is .NET XBOX Live Night that James Avery introduced upon the world! So far, it’s been Project Gotham Racing 2, but some interest is building for Rainbow S...