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Published on 16 Jan 2006 by Jim Perry
I just posted an article on using the new Generics functionality in VS 2005. You can check it out here - http://blogs.vbcity.com/machaira/articles/5781.aspx
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Published on 12 Jan 2006 by Robert Verpalen
With ADO(.Net) it´s very easy to query Excel workbooks and with ADO.Net you get a DataTable with nicely typed columns (if possible). By default, the first row is treated as the header row. All this is done by ADO.net, nothing to add there, but... Since I have this nack of using w
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Published on 11 Jan 2006 by Mark Dryden
Firstly, happy new year to everyone - I hope you had a good'un. For me, I didn't realise that turning 30 would automatically bracket me into the 'crap' Christmas presents arena - but it did and I'm sure you can picture the joy on my face as the only present I got this year (yes, only present)
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Published on 11 Jan 2006 by Jim Perry
As my primary hobby development in .NET and gaming, I'm always on the lookout for something that makes the development easier. One such thing I've been checking out a bit is Tray Games. It's basically a platform and delivery method for small .NET games. They provide the API for doing client server d
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Published on 09 Jan 2006 by Mike McIntyre [MVP Visual Basic]
Check it out - EBay Selling Starter Kit
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Published on 08 Jan 2006 by Mike McIntyre [MVP Visual Basic]
Have you been thinking about getting into generics with Visual Basic 2005 but have not found a simple place to start? Before you try to create your own generic classes, methods, structures, or interfaces, walk first - by using some of the generic types built into the .NET 2.
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Published on 07 Jan 2006 by Jim Perry
So I've joined the ranks of the vbCity bloggers. Hopefully you'll find something interesting and/or useful here. I'll probably concentrate my posting on game development as it's my favorite hobby. You might even stumble across some tidbits about the games I'm working on from time to time. If you hav
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Published on 05 Jan 2006 by Robert Verpalen
When exceptions are generated, you have some great debugging abilities in .net, but sometimes you want to save or mail those exceptions. For example batch programs can mail you their exceptions. The default stacktrace doesn't really cut it for me. You have to find your way back through the syst
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Published on 30 Dec 2005 by Robert Verpalen
(First introduced here: http://blogs.vbcity.com/hotdog/archive/2004/09/11/280.aspx , )This is the second version of the AutoFormatter. Mainly intended for easily posting code blocks to .. let's say a blog, it can also be used for rtf conversion in general. DOWNLOAD/INSTALL Run exe (7-1-2006) Th
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Published on 30 Dec 2005 by Mike McIntyre [MVP Visual Basic]
Visual Basic and ASP.NET courses are available.
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Published on 26 Dec 2005 by Ged Mead
I discovered a very interesting little twist on the differences between the Today property and the Now property in the DateTime Class. I was working on something recently and using the built-in Compare method of the DateTime Type. Essentially the user selected
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Published on 23 Dec 2005 by Robert Verpalen
Very simplistic perhaps, but something that keeps reoccuring for me in reporting needs: calculating the times a certain day comes back in a date range, so to find it back posted it here ;-) vb.net : Function NumberOfDays(ByVal Day As DayOfWeek, ByVal DateFrom As DateTime, ByV
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Published on 19 Dec 2005 by Serge Baranovsky
vbfeeds.com RSS was broken for the last few days... Thanks to Richard Laniel for pointing that out. I was too busy in the last week and didn't have time to read my Bloglines. What happened is there was one post that is over 90K and it turned the RSS feed over 200K - I fixed the feed by removing the
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Published on 08 Dec 2005 by Robert Verpalen
MessageQueue: wrapper to show info messages in their own thread. Right now 2 simple modes are included: modal mode and outlookstyle. The latter scrolling up the message from the bottom right corner.The modal style really only is in for some backward compatibility in another project, but the scroll u
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Published on 08 Dec 2005 by Robert Verpalen
This class as the title implies reads fixed length files into classes. The classes use attributes to define themselves as belonging to the Fixed Lenght File. Sorry, the comments in this case are in Dutch, you might be able to filter the examples if you don't speak the language, but if you do, that w
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Published on 08 Dec 2005 by Robert Verpalen
Autostart is a little class to simplify setting your C# or vb.net application in the windows startup queue. Either per registry or in the program files startup folder. Nothing spectaculair, but I always misplaced my code of the registry key so decided to put it into a class up here ;-) The
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Published on 07 Dec 2005 by Mark Dryden
OK - this has been causing me problems for the last day or so and I've managed to come up with a tentative workaround. When you attempt add the Shockwave Flash Object (Version 8) to a form in a new or existing project - the IDE presents the message 'Failed to import the ActiveX control.
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Published on 04 Dec 2005 by Isaiah D. Williams
It has been along time since I have posted. It has been extremely busy since my last post with school and of course the friendly hurricane Katrina. I will post some pictures from Katrina when I finally get a chance. I am glad to say that I am about to publish my first article. It has been an ex
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Published on 29 Nov 2005 by Mark Dryden
Back again after a protracted holiday and paternity leave (for those interested - it was a girl). I'm back and at least I'm getting back into the groove work-wise at least. Anyway, I came across this wonderful site today which I thought was really smart. Basically, its an online UML-base
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Published on 29 Nov 2005 by V. Neil Knobbe
In the previous post I talked about Reading Files. Now I will show you how to Write Files. Writing to Files is as easy as Reading from Files. As with Reading Files you need to Import the System.IO Namespace. Imports System.IO As with the StreamReader, writing with St
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Published on 24 Jan 2006 by Serge Baranovsky
While I'm off-topicing today... I'm sure those of you in the North America and watch TV ads (ugh) will enjoy this one: Worst Job Everhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1514168659738935009 And just for fun Blonde antelopehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3728266100951844857
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Published on 24 Jan 2006 by Serge Baranovsky
This is a little off-topic for vbCity Blog but, hey, it's about blogging :) Thanks to Robert Scoble for inviting me to the Naked Conversations party last Saturday! That was definitely great party! Lots of interesting people, most names are familiar from the blogosphere, some I met before, many
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Published on 31 Jan 2006 by Jim Perry
Minor rant time: < rant > Every day I see questions on boards like: "When I tried to run my app, I get an < error type here > error. Can you tell me what's wrong?" To anyone who's done programming for any length of time, usually the only way to answer this question is with other question
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Published on 03 Feb 2006 by Ged Mead
Playing audio has certainly got a lot easier now that the 2005 version includes the very useful My.Computer.Audio.Play method. If you know where the audio file is going to be saved then you can use something like: My.Computer.Audio.Pla
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Published on 04 Feb 2006 by David Jeavons
Well, I finally plucked up the courage to give blogging a go, with a little motivation from Ged ;) So what can you expect from this blog? To be honest, I'm not too sure about that myself. Since I was 18 I have always worked for companies developing Windows software (using VB) but now coming up to th
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