The email I get...- August 23, 2004 Every day I get from 1 to 10 emails asking me various VB questions... some I answer by pointing to a link, some by providing code, and sometimes I just point people to the newsgroups or forums that exist for this type of question... but this time I thought I'd just post the question and answer into my blog ... The Question (edited slightly): I just want to ask how to make the string in to proper format.. ex... input. gerald this must be the output: Gerald and i want it to interactively...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/23/218779.aspx Another article preview up... this one is a content rotator for ASP.NET- August 12, 2004 As I discussed in an earlier post, I wanted to know if people found preview articles useful... and at least a few people said they did, so here is another one.... Rotating Is Fun Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes the creation of a simple ‘content rotator’ in ASP.NET Feedback, via the blog or the feedback link at the bottom of the article page, is always welcome!http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/12/213350.aspx vbCity has blogs!! Excellent...- August 12, 2004 Serge Baranovsky, the man behind vbCity, just mentioned to me that they have started hosting blogs... just their staff at the moment, but they have plans to grow... Since vbCity is already one of the best sites for VB developers, this is good news! http:blogs.vbcity.comhttp://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/12/213338.aspx The Updater Application Block... various additions...- August 10, 2004 One of the nice things about the Updater Application Block is that it was written to be quite extensible... I saw a post today where SamSantiago mentioned he had created a custom class to delete all those old versions on your machine whenever you do an update.... very cool, I'll be trying that out right away... Personally, I've updated the updater in a few different ways, but the most recent changes have been the most reusable, in my opinon; I fixed the code so that it no longer requires...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/10/211711.aspx Soma discusses the future of VB- August 9, 2004 Soma (whose name you may or may not recognize) is in a position to know a lot about the future of Visual Basic (in his own words, from his intro post... "My name is Somasegar and I run the Developer Division at Microsoft."), so when he decides to post about it, it is probably worth a quick read... ....A couple of the people in that session had some questions for me around our commitment to VB in the .NET world. I was a little surprised by these questions. That made me think more and I wanted.http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/08/211093.aspx Jesse Liberty, author of one of my favorite books (Clouds to Code) gives an overview of "My" in Visual Basic 2005- August 5, 2004 Blurb copied using the cool "Blog This" link on the ondotnet pages :) Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0 by Jesse Liberty -- For a couple of years now, Jesse Liberty been touting the Microsoft endorsed-sentiment that it really doesn't matter if you program in C or in VB.NET, since both are just syntactic sugar layered on top of MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language, the true language of .NET). That appears to be changing a bit with Whidbey. Jesse Liberty investigates the new My...http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/05/208646.aspx Updated the headlines on the VB Community page today...- August 2, 2004 http:msdn.microsoft.comvbasiccommunityI added a little blurb at the top asking folks to send in any ideas they have for this page, please use it... I try to scan the community sites regularly but I'm certainly missing a lot of stuff.If you see something worth noting on the VB site, let me know.http://blogs.msdn.com/duncanma/archive/2004/08/02/206201.aspx |