Startup vet with a coding habit
We’re halfway through the month so its time for me to re-post the offer to get a FREE XDN Professional if you are a .NET Bloggers, in case you missed it the first time. You can click here to learn how to get your FREE XDN Professional membership. For those who don’t know about XDN it stands for …
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UPDATE (2006-May-18): I am no longer running Xtras.Net As many of you know, my company produces a printed catalog called Xtras.Net which we subtitle Your Source for Quality .NET Tools. However, we are revising the design for the next printing, and also adding features to our website to coordinate with some of the changes. For …
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I blogged about the "My" classes here, and also video interviewed Joe Binder about the "My" classes here, but now I want to make an open request to Microsoft to see the "My" classes sooner than later. As I understand it the "My" classes include a set of VB 2005 IDE features but are otherwise …
Paul Vick posted about VB @ The Movies. Check it out as Microsoft is giving away a free not-for-resale copy of Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition to anyone in the USA or Canada who views and rates five of their movies. This is very, very cool. Pass it on to anyone you’d like to get started …
Back at the beginning of last month Microsoft launched Channel 9, and I was completely inspired by their video interviews. Being a “database“ guy, I’ve never really gotten excited about things like graphics, imaging, charting, etc. and that included video. That was until I saw Channel9 and thought “Wow, these videos are really cool! We …
After much prodding by myself and others, Kathleen Dollard, author of Code Generation in .NET, has finally gotten herself a blog. You go girl!
As many readers of this blog know, I run Xtras.Net which sells third party tools, though I haven’t blogged that much about 3rd party tools. But Bill Ryan over at Bill’s House O Insomnia just posted about IP*Works! Red Carpet Subscription. I’ve been in this business over 10 years now, and I have to agree. /n …
For the past week I’ve had a nasty sinus infection I couldn’t shake, so today I finally got the doctor to give me some antibiotics. Hopefully they will bring me back to life soon. Anyway, since lack of energy kept me from posting anything interesting lately, I decided to do something easy. :) Today I …
Roy Osherove at ISerializable is holding a contest for the "Most Useful Add-in/Macro for Visual Studio .Net" Contest." Submissions accepted through May 31st, and there are tons of cool prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place plus a Bonus finisher. One of the best(!) prizes is an XDN Professional Membership from Xtras.Net. :-) Be sure …
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I just got back from the Visual Studio Connections conference in Orlando, Florida for a few days. I went down for a few meetings, and had a really great time. I meet Robert Green who on Monday night previewed a free set of soon to be released components called the VBPowerPack. Robert and I talked about …
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