If I do the following (psuedocode): mediaControl.Pause mediaControl.GetState(50, state) mediaSeeking.SetPositions(position, AbsolutePositioning, null, NoPositioning) mediaControl.Run I get the f...

After being IM’d about the world coming to an end as we know it and Microsoft being big-brother ruling the world. According to rumors, Palladium will allow Microsoft to come into your machine and ...

Partially an entry… partially a plea! I’ve been working on getting MPEG2 video files to play as one would expect using VB.NET. The files play correctly, however, when using the mediaseek function...

I’ve been having some difficulties with Windows Update not working properly on machines in completely different locations and service providers. After a lot of research I found no real results from...

Cameron Beccario talks about some of the additions to the VB.NET language for working with unsigned variable types. This includes new keywords and conversion operators, how they map to CLR types an...

Chris Brumme talks about how the CLR works with (or against) the underlying operating system during startup and shutdown (to considerable length) He also discusses threads, the current ‘issues’ wit...

These types of articles should really bother me. However, I’ve been doing a bit of thinking of late about this subject and apparently I’m not the only one that’s been doing so. Over the ages, one...

Paul Vick asked an interesting question about my last post concerning why I chose to use the DLLImport rather than the Declare statement. I was going to quickly respond stating the old “well, it s...

Brad Abrams and Scott Hanselman provided a couple of ways to create some noise with C# using a couple of interop methods. Both methods have their uses. Here is the VB.NET way of doing the same th...

Robert Scoble states on his blog, “I’m seeing a resurgence in VB.NET stuff lately. There are many developers, both inside and outside of Microsoft, who like VB.NET a lot.” :-D He also states “I he...