After receiving input from several individuals, I've decided to publish the VB.NET Coding Guidelines.  I'm not a big fan of coding “standards”, but do subscribe to the idea of trying to keep a little consistency in your coding practices.  I'm not going to say that I'm the one-stop answer on the subject; however, I will say ...

by Cory Smith Table of Contents 1. Introduction2. Style Guidelines  2.1 Tabs and Indenting  2.2 Option Explicit / Option Strict  2.3 Block Formatting  2.4 Single line statements  2.5 Commenting    2.5.1 Copyright notice    2.5.2 Documentation ...

I've finished working through the existing issues list for the C# version (available GotDotNet) for bugs and missing features.  I've implemented the missing features in my VB.NET version (although, they may not be feature complete due to the .NET Frameworks limited functionality in the help system arena).  I've also compiled it ...

But coding is sooo much fun!  Tonight (ummm, and this morning) I've been working to clean up the Solitaire application that I've ported to VB.NET.  Of course, as I'm going through the code, I'm seeing a lot of interesting opportunities extend it. ;-) I was looking through the existing buglist with the original C# code and decided to ...

In my last post, I forgot to mention the Coding Guidelines for VB.NET that I've been working on.  I see a lot of code from many sources as I'm sure all of you are.  Every sample, even coming from the same source, uses a different coding style.  Which is right, which is wrong?  Which should you adopt?  Well, these are ...

I've been working on a couple of projects and looking for some feedback as to what you would like to see me finish first (sure, it's a teaser of sorts, but really, I would like to hear what you would like to see first)  ;-) Organizing all the source that I've posted about into one location. Converting the managed version Solitaire to ...

As I've stated before, I do make mistakes ;-) I have an application that I've written for my employer that appears, under certain *unidentified* circumstances to have a very slow memory leak.  While trying to narrow down where it could be, I pulled one of my components out to test it with a console interface as a harness (to reduce the ...

Back in May 2003 I mentioned a problem with the application verifier not handling the .NET framework correctly (or that the framework was breaking the rules, however you want to look at it).  Someone was asking me about the logo program and this product came up in the discussion so I went to go check if there was a new version.  Well, it ...

A friend of mine (who doesn't have a blog) that works in a SysAdmin role needed to see an example of using CreateProcessWithLogin using VB.  He chanced upon an example showing how to do this using C#.  Since he's not versed in multiple languages, it was a bit hard to digest.  He sent me the link to the source and I've converted ...

Erik Porter and I had some discussion via IM concerning his latest entry (where he gave me credit).  I noticed that he wasn't using LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress when checking whether Visual Styles were enabled.  I was sure that it was needed so that you would be sure that you were referencing the correct DLL that was being loaded in memory, but ...