For those at the VDNUG meeting last night  and for those who couldn’t make it, here are some links for further information. LINQ: msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future blogs.msdn.com/VBTeam blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam DSL tools: msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/dsltools  

The Visual Fox Pro team announced today their latest CTP of VFP Sedna.  So what’s that got to do with VB6 you ask ? Well the Sedna CTP has a set of COM wrappers for a few of the .NET framework classes.  It even comes with some VB6 examples !!! So get some .NET into your VB6 […]

Tonight I passed the first 1000km on my mountain bike 🙂  the speedo’s actually at 1012km . that’s over 16 weeks, which isn’t a lot I s’pose, but I sure am happy with it, consideirng a lot of that 1000km has been dirt , sand and gravel tracks and LOTS of hills. The bike itself […]

I was chatting with Ken Getz the other day about the RichTextBox. Ken pointed out to me that the SelectionFont can sometimes return Nothing.  The documentation isn’t specific on when exactly this occurs, but a quick bit of disassembly and Win32 Api cross referencing, and the case is pretty clear.  It occurs when the selection […]

It seems every year, with every award cycle, the debate over what makes a MVP and the MVP program itself re-surfaces. This year some of the discussion has been centred around two posts, one by a Microsoft employee Dave Lempers, and another by an Excel MVP XL-Dennis. Fighting flames Dave Lempers’ posted his thoughts about […]

Why is it that IE has so limited functionality around cookies ?    One of  the big benifits of cookies is preserving your settings, yet in IE they just chuck all the cookies in the one path and only offer functionality to delete the lot.  It’s very much a format your machine when one app plays up […]