Introduction OK, we’ve run into a problem where the task at hand doesn’t have an answer with the .NET Framework.  Yes, the framework is huge, but it’s not all inclusive.  This means that we need t...

OK, I can’t believe how much traffic has surrounded the whole VB.NET and Refactoring topic.  The reason why I can’t believe the amount of traffic is that the whole thing was kicked off with the fol...

It’s this kind of crap that causes confusion in technology.  This was posted to slashdot.org: RKBA writes “My wife just handed me an article from the Wednesday, October 22, 2003 issue of the Wall ...

I’ve done a bit more thinking on this.  I see the whole thing from two perspectives. The first, if these tools are going to be collectively put together under some menu item, then sure, call it ‘r...

Refactoring?  What’s that? Wow, what do you know, you can find out the answer by going to the Refactoring Home Page; however, to summarize: Refactoring is a technique to restructure code in a disc...

Although there are a couple of developer tools listings floating around, I still get a lot of people asking me what tools do I find indispensable.  I’ve started to put together an essential tools l...

I finally got around to updating the overall look of the site to get it to look somewhat similar to when I was using BlogX. A couple of things to note: It would be nice to be able to specify so...

OK, so I’m kidding.  However, I would like to point out a few things to those that are complaining that Microsoft is not giving these away for free and how they wouldn’t be willing to spend $20 for...

After reading through a pretty informative entry by Erik Porter about the performance (or lack thereof) of the ReDim Preserve method of Dynamic Arrays (recommended reading), I was reading through t...

Well, it appears that you now can have control arrays in VB.NET. Erik Porter as created an excellent component that allows you to have control arrays. It gives you a visual way in the IDE to do t...