XBOX Friends Thing Change Log v1.0.20.0 (v1.1.0.0 in beta testing) NOTE: This page is solely for the purpose of notifying those interested of the changes occurring from version to version of Xb...

Well, we are now up to v0.0.0.5… and it’s now using web services.  OK, don’t get your hopes up, it’s not from XBOX; but rather one via this website.  Basically, one of the thoughts I had while usin...

Well, this is sort of turning into a project that gives me an opportunity to play with some technologies that I’ve either read about or seen and just haven’t had a reason to use them. Tonight, I c...

I’m making a pre-release version of the XBOX Friends List Watcher desktop application available for download.  You can have the list auto refresh periodically by selecting the Auto Refresh menu i...

A few of us on XBOX Live were discussing how nice it would be to have an application that you could have on your desktop that would notify you when one of your friends was online playing a game. W...

After my rant and a some other people picking it up on their blog, I got a response from Raghavendra Prabhu who is part of the .NET Client Team letting us know that VisualStyles in Whidbey has a to...

Although WMI allows you to gain access to a lot of interesting information, it’s obnoxiously slow.  Also, the previous example would only get me the serial numbers for my first two hard drives.  It...

Normally, when when the winters here get cold enough for rain to become something other than rain, we have sleet or freezing rain.  What a surprise to wake up this morning and have this: Snow.  ...

Thanks to James Avery for pointing out an article on CodeProject on how to determine drive serial numbers using WMI in C#.  Ported it to VB.NET and VB.NET’ised it a bit. Download UPDATE: Als...

Sijin Joseph pointed out a pretty nice example of a reusable error dialog that Jason Bock put together.  It’s written in C#, so you know it was just screaming to be ported to VB.NET ;-)  Of course,...