Lisa’s on channel 9 with a video explaining snippets.  Some good parts to watch are: 9:50 in or so, Lisa shows how to use the shortcut menu for snippets.  This is MUST know TV if you don’t already know this. 17:40 drag and dropping snippets into the IDE 33:00 the VB Snippet Editor !!  (and […]

The Australian Customs launched a new processing system this week.  The software originally was budgeted at $33 million dollars, blew-out to $250 Milliona dollars.  The system itself seems to be causing huge headaches and major delays.   it’s also had major security issues such as displaying user information including pricing information to other users.  The system was […]

The new DataSource window in VS.NET 2005 truely rocks !  I love how you can have all different kinds of data sources in there, be it your web services, data from your database or *ANY* type in your project including, of course, your business objects.  So when you do add business objects to the DataSource window, […]

When working with a Windows.Forms application in Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey), you may encounter a strange error when you try to open a form or control that has data binding using the new Bindingsource components.  The error usually reads like : One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. […]

A really cool side effect of what is planned for VB9, is you will never have to code in XSLT ever again ! VB9 has full support for XML literals, querying and manipulating XML with LINQ and specifically XLINQ, and it also has the dynamic features such as late binding and dynamic interfaces.  Put it […]

I was reading Rocky’s post about a work around for a binding issue in VS 2005.  The problem is the field being changed doesn’t get updated in the display.    The work around is good, but seems like too much work, so I wrote a component that extends the BindingSource components –> CornStarch  .  As the […]