I’ve joined a couple of other folks in the attempt to rebuild their machines with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004.  I was resisting the move, but since Office 2003 has been released it gave me...

Well, after nearly three weeks… I’m beginning to recover from the flu.  So obviously I haven’t been getting nearly enough done here on AddressOf and my emails have stacked up pretty high.  Going to...

The following is taken from the online documentation: However, without error checking and if data type capacities are overflowed, incorrect results may be stored without raising an error. The que...

VB.NET offers two compiler options that could potentially improve the overall performance of your application.  One of them, Remove Integer Overflow Checks , is pretty straight forward about what i...

OK, kicked into gear by a GDN posting on ‘Is VB.NET is slower than C#’, based on some of the comments, I decided to dig into some of the points a bit deeper.  This, of course, led to some interesti...

Windows Media Player Media Library (WmpML in VB.NET) This is a port of the WmpML C++ sample included with the Player 9 SDK to VB.NET. Shows how to read/write to media players metadata; not the met...

MSNBC has a Test Your Digital IQ survey.  Here is my result ;-) link

In order to facilitate those of us who play on XBOX Live to connect to one another, I’ve started creating gamer tags for people.  There are two to choose from: link The one of the left looks c...

The new Xbox.com GamerCard! Cory Smith Erik Porter Harry Pierson Site Dave Bettin Site Vasanth Dharmaraj Site Philip Rieck Site You can now view my profile at XboxFriends.com...

Added a couple of links to the left (new graphics buttons).  One is my Windows Messenger / MSN address.  I don’t actually check email address using that account, it’s just used for Windows Messenge...