The Great Shark Hunt

First off I really want to thank everyone for sending in emails and commenting on my last news post. I’m very happy to see there’s someone out there (I was beginning to wonder) and that in some capacity my work is useful to you. For me it was the age old question. If you write…

A long time ago, in a blog far, far away a prediction was made. Microsoft would be writing programs for Linux in 2004. Maybe today we’re one step closer to that vision. Microsoft released the source code for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) developer tool to SourceForge under the IBM Common Public License or CPL….

Yahoo! The first Technology Preview for Whidbey is now available. There are going to be a bunch of bugs in the preview but some of the refactoring tools are there as are some of the neat new features that Whidbey will have to offer when it gets released. I’m off to MSDN to check it…

Yeah, that’s the way some things go. I did have plans at the start of the year to do a lot of updates with the tools around here but as time went on and I took a good look at things there wasn’t a whole lot to update. I mean, most of the tools like…

I’ve been struggling with a “best practice” around setting up larger scale projects with .NET The Web Project wizard in Visual Studio .NET is convenient for creating quick ASP.NET applications on your local machine, but in an effort to simplify your life, it also makes many decisions for you that are difficult to change if…

I’m really struggling trying to find some good free ASP.NET components on the net. I’m a strong believer (and follower) of not re-inventing the wheel and will fully conceed to someone who has already gone through the pain and suffering of writing a module that did something simple, like a drop-down menu, calendar pop-up, etc….

Last week a bunch of us went on a .NET “advanced” debugging course. Well, suffice to say, the course was not what we were really expecting and ended up being a course on how to read MS .dump files, step through (assembler) code with WinDbg and generally get to know the IL code from a…

If you haven’t tried it already, C# and .NET is a pretty nice language/platform to work in. Some people are a little intimitated by the whole “OO” concept, but for old hacks like me who have been doing OO since the days of Smalltalk and Eiffel it’s just a walk in the park. Luckily there…

I was getting a little tired of the old look and wanted to try to clean things up a little around here. I think I’m happy with this for now but let me know if you have any suggestions (especially in the colour area). The site is still 100% table free (thank the Gods for…

As I was going through my old projects, one kept coming back to me. It’s an old script writing app that I created using MFC but never finished or released. There were a lot of these type of tools out there to help budding script writers get going, but in the end all they’re just…