My presentation at the Fort Worth .NET Users Group went pretty good last night.  Basically, I took the TransLabel article and turned it into a presentation. I had several people asking questions; w...

Duncan Mackenzie describes how to control a serial-port-connected LCD panel using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET using a couple of serial components.  One of components me...

I’m constantly running into people who are unsure, afraid, overwhelmed, etc. about the move from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. The reality is that although there are a lot of differences,...

While searching for some of the information for the BASIC Timeline, I came across a word document that outlined many of the key events over the life of Microsoft Corporation.  I’m not sure of the o...

1964 Dartmouth BASIC by J.G Kemeney & T. E. Kurtz @ Dartmouth College: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz invents BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) and its compiler. The first...

The second installment to the Developing Owner Drawn User Controls is now live.  I’ve also made a few updates to the first article to reflect some of the changes.  The second article extends the se...

Introduction After seeing Microsoft Windows MediaCenter Edition, I really liked the the look of using semi-transparent elements to differentiate areas of the screen. I set off to figure out how...

Part one of a collection of walk through articles that details the creation of several user controls that follow a theme.  The theme being semi-transparent controls that allow you to set the opacit...

Introduction After seeing Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition, I really liked the the look of using semi-transparent elements to differentiate areas of the screen. I set off to figure out ho...

Holy crap!!! My application is taking up too much memory and it’s just a default form?  What is going on here? Well, this is actually normal with an application utilizing the .NET Framework.  Many...