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- Going Native
 - vbPixelGameEngine
 - VB, Linux, Copilot, AI and a Meme
 - Classic Solitaire
 - Performance Optimization in Visual Basic .NET 2002
 - Visual Basic .NET Internals 2003
 - For Each IEnumerator Extension
 - To Err Is Human
 - Eject USB Drive via CMD
 - Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6
 - Format Drive via CMD
 - Insane Idea #1
 - VS Code Printing Free
 - Busy, busy, busy!
 - PropertyGrid DefaultValue for non-Const values?
 - Performance Improvement - CInt(Fix(value))
 - Site issues...
 - Missing “Teredo” adapter…
 - SUCCESS!–VB on Linux!
 - Skype for Business invite not working?
 - Updating to Windows 10 Frustration (Windows 8/8.1)
 - Watching recorded TV with Windows Media Player
 - What happened to “What U Hear”?
 - (Re)Announcing BASICSIG!
 - BASIC SIG (November 1st, 2016) - Are line numbers evil?
 - BASIC SIG (August 4th, 2015)... has a new (real) home!
 - Checkers Solitaire is now OSS
 - I'm Going Open Source!
 - Transition Physical Machine To Virtual
 - Async/Await in a Console Application
 - Further Adventures in WinRT - Part 1
 - Helpful WinRT Samples
 - Cross-Platform Development with the .NET Framework ("VB Core")
 - WPF
 - GW-BASIC 0.1.4
 - GW-BASIC
 - Cambridge, England, UK
 - End of year wrap up (2011)
 - BASIC - Status as of 2011-07-27
 - VB10 vs VB6: Variants are not supported.
 - VB10 vs VB6: Option Base
 - BASIC - Status as of 2011-06-27.
 - Back to BASIC!
 - VB10 vs VB6: Dynamic Arrays Usage In Structures
 - VB10 vs VB6: Array Lower Bounds
 - VB10 vs VB6: Private Class Variables
 - VB10 vs VB6: ByVal/ByRef within API calls.
 - VB10 vs VB6: As Any
 - VB10 vs VB6: VarPtr, StrPtr, ObjPtr
 - VB10 vs VB6 (aka VFred vs Classic VB)
 - Why?
 - Action Movie Night - Wednesday, November 17th
 - Thank you...
 - Wow! I can't believe I found this code...
 - Back...
 - Touring through Northwest Arkansas
 - WinForms ComboBox -> DevExpress ComboBoxEdit (migration)
 - The *new* Star Trek
 - San Diego ASP.NET SIG - May 19th, 6pm
 - Looking for suggestions...
 - INETA
 - Open Letter to the ClickOnce team.
 - Expired ClickOnce Certificate
 - Linq - Episode 1
 - Busy, busy, busy...
 - Face Off: VCR vs DVR
 - Console Event Handling
 - A "Secret" Movie
 - Technology Avalanche
 - Comments are back!
 - It's about time!
 - GotDotNet, may you rest in peace
 - "Blocked" by Windows Vista at startup? (Hack)
 - Didn't go to Tech-Ed 2007?
 - Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 3
 - Tech-Ed 2007: My "Itinerary"
 - All I can say is "Huh?"
 - Grrrr... the web.
 - .NET and Games
 - Why Oh Why Microsoft Why Why Why
 - Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 2
 - Adventures in Windows Vista (x64) - Part 1
 - Windows Vista "supports" 4GB of memory. Sure it does...
 - Tulsa DNUG - Tonight
 - Rising to the challenge!
 - Michael Dunn - VSTS+MSDN Premium Promises Progress Report
 - I need a few good artists!
 - Going On Tour
 - "Community Happens"
 - My.Vista
 - What's next? All restaurants will be Taco Bell!
 - It's 2:12am and I'm done with a new VS2005 Macro hack
 - My PC no longer suffers from Xbox 360 envy!
 - How NOT to do single assembly deployment.
 - Caleb Jenkins is giving away a Zune!
 - Vista FUD Myth #4: My hardware won't support Windows Vista.
 - Vista FUD Myth #3: Disabling Aero ("Glass") will speed up your computer.
 - Vista FUD Myth #2: .NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications will not work.
 - Vista FUD Myth #1: Visual Studio 2003 will not work on Vista.
 - Expression confusion continues... by Microsoft
 - Leveraging Windows Vista's Windows System Assessment Tool (WinSAT) API in Visual Basic
 - Concerning Windows Vista "Upgrades"
 - Microsoft + Advertising + Crack = Hmmmmm
 - WPF Development with Visual Studio 2005
 - Windows Vista - Windows Explorer Folder Options
 - Choices, Choices, Choices
 - And the winner is...
 - You snooze, you lose.
 - Get back your "Run" command (Windows Vista)
 - Installing "old" stuff on Windows Vista
 - Comparing Apples To Apples (Revisited)
 - Comparing Apples To Apples (The Myth Of Benchmarks)
 - Cingular Wireless Customer Service Application = STUPID!!!
 - What would you do for a Visual Studio 2005 (Team System Suite) and MSDN license?
 - Windows Media Player 11
 - Stuff, stuff and more stuff....
 - .NET Framework 3.0 Available Today!
 - XboxFriends + Community Server
 - Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available this December
 - Microsoft + Novell
 - Community Server - Running *another* application in the CS folder
 - Community Server Solution to "Can't Create Users"
 - C# to VB Conversion/Translation
 - Grrrr... Community Server
 - Migration to Community Server 2.1
 - Lot's o' stuff...
 - Hmmm... Open Source recognizes VB... but Xbox 360 doesn't?
 - Feelin' the open source VB love!
 - Creating Smart Application Layouts with Windows Forms 2.0
 - ToolTip Voodoo Applied
 - Not feelin' the VB love from Microsoft...
 - ClickOnce Tip of the Day
 - Windows Forms + Vista
 - Windows Vista...
 - My Desk
 - Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach
 - ToolTip Voodoo
 - Living in a Land of Obfuscation
 - The "Big Bad Wolf" visited me...
 - Grrrrr... Murphy's Law strikes again!
 - Been really busy...
 - And people say Microsoft isn't responsive...
 - I know it's FREE... but still!!!!!!
 - Where Am I?
 - Inheritance vs. Partial (VB vs. C#)
 - VB'ified (Definition Of...)
 - DiamondDash - Boulderdash Clone in VB 2005 (Revised, yet again)
 - Inheritance vs. Partial
 - Watch "Recorded TV" on non-Windows MCE machines...
 - Missed working for Google by 3 months...
 - There is such a thing as being toooo paranoid...
 - XboxFriends for the Desktop v1.1.0.70 (early beta)
 - Xbox 360 or PC Gaming lag???... Take a look at this...
 - SiN Episodes, NDA's and a Preview
 - Google... smoogle...
 - Adventures in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
 - Holidays are over, back to work (as if it ever stopped)...
 - Shooting down more Anti-VB'isms...
 - (Rebuttal) Reason #458 Why Visual Basic.NET Sucks
 - Didn't get to SiN on Sunday?
 - Geek Gathering for December -- SiN Episodes.
 - VB 2005 Gems #1
 - Semper Fidelis or "SEMPER FI!"
 - How fast does my page load?
 - VB 2005 Snippet Annoyance - A solution...
 - Xbox Live and MSN Messenger
 - OK, this is, well, ummm, nifty... yeah... that's as good of a description as anything else.
 - Here's your chance to laugh your *ss off at me...
 - .NET 2.0 Redistributable... where to get?
 - It... is... aaaallllliiiiiiiiiiiiive!
 - OK, still mad at the Xbox.com folks, but...
 - Hmmm... Free copy of VistaDB 2.1!
 - Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 5
 - Perfect example of what *NOT* to do... (Xbox)
 - The OUTPUT Clause (Transact-SQL)
 - It's so... functional... yeah... that's it.
 - Gathering computer information using WMI
 - Interesting survey results...
 - Some people just don't have a clue...
 - Documentation... Documentation... Documentation!
 - "VB and C#"
 - 5:00am and headed to the airport...
 - VB Upgrade Tour (Follow-up)
 - I really meant to get another post up, but...
 - VB Upgrade Tour
 - What else was I doing 10 years ago?
 - Reflecting on the past, Looking forward to the future...
 - Headed out the door...
 - Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 4
 - Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 3
 - Tech-Ed Pre-Event
 - Star Wars Episode III
 - VB.NET Coding Guidelines Update
 - Visual Studio 2005 Dev Con
 - Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 2
 - Bringing a 20 year old Draw command back to life...
 - Solution Icons...
 - Windows Forms: 5 Ways of Interaction Between Forms (New Article)
 - Pop Quiz
 - Refactoring to debut in VB 2005!
 - Now for a "good" article discussing a comparison between .NET languages...
 - Wow...
 - Default Instances...
 - I know I shouldn't let this sort of thing bother me...
 - Porting Checkers Solitaire to PocketPC...
 - Downloading Beta 2 ...
 - I guess I just don't get it...
 - Doh! Glad I didn't make the switch!
 - Enigma Machine...
 - Reminder: Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 1
 - Checkers Solitaire... Wanna give it a go?
 - Checkers Solitaire
 - Windows Form application in Kiosk mode...
 - Split'ing Strings and the Performance Implications
 - Geek Gathering - Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex - 1
 - What's wrong with this picture?
 - Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 4.0 - Mixed feelings...
 - VB.NET Coding Guidelines
 - Solitaire (written in VB.NET)
 - C#->VB.NET Porting Gotchas: Math
 - Doh!... it's 2:41 am... I really need to get to bed.
 - Does it mean success when you start getting hate mail?
 - Coming Soon: Coding Guidelines for VB.NET
 - Back to your regularly scheduled content...
 - On the lack of sympathy for the VB.Classic crowd...
 - VB.NET vs "VB.Classic" or "VB.COM"
 - Geek Dinner... Geek Meet... Isn't there a better name for this sort of thing?
 - Multiplicity... changing the way I use a computer...
 - .NET Application Memory Flush via Interop - Revisited
 - Windows Application Verifier
 - Threading in VB.NET
 - XboxFriends -> Open Source?
 - Better late than never... My 'recent' FWDNUG presentation.
 - Launch a program using different logon credentials using VB and CreateProcessWithLogon
 - Saving these links so I can refer back to them in my "Mono" discussion...
 - What is Microsoft's stance on Mono? (and... The Future of .NET)
 - "Where you been?"
 - Hmmm... my name is mentioned on the Mono site ;-)
 - IsNot, Paul Vick, Amanda Silver and Software Patents
 - Which is easier to read...
 - Pop-Quiz - FileStream.ReadByte() returns what type of value?
 - 30% off MaxVista thanks to Scott Hanselman
 - Sometimes, people can really annoy you...
 - Converting between String and Char arrays
 - You know your in the zone....
 - Knee deep in ASP.NET (XboxFriends.com)
 - Extremely Simple TripleDES Encryption/Decryption with Base64 Encoding/Decoding.
 - Windows XP MCE 2005 Upgrade Problems (and Solutions)
 - Google Desktop... Uses 2.3GB of your drive???????????
 - Let the countdown to having absolutely positively no life outside of the house begin...
 - Date value and timezones via Web Services
 - Format Code to HTML within a VS.NET 2K3 Macro (leveraging Microsoft Word)
 - WinForms + Control Inheritance Tip (or at least a Reminder)
 - XboxFriends and ASP.NET vs. WinForms
 - Why is it that Europe seems to get all the Xbox Love????
 - Halo 2 - Done!!!!!
 - TreeView, ListView, Drag and Drop and Command Pattern Example
 - Is Windows Forms technology dead?
 - Avalon just became a whole lot more attractive!
 - IsVisualStylesEnabled Revisited
 - Star Wars: Battlefront - I have mine, you got yours?
 - Need to programmatically determine what framework versions and service pack levels are installed?
 - Microsoft .NET 1.1 SP1, .NET 1.0 SP3, XP SP2 and potential problems.
 - Managing your DVD collection...
 - Jason Bock does DotNetLanguages.net
 - Rally Sport Challenge 2 - Voice communication fixed... Thoughts about update systems.
 - Moved... mostly settled in and back online.
 - Mostly moved... but still no internet connection :-(
 - House hunting coming to a close...
 - Do you recycle?
 - Not much being said lately...
 - EA Serve has been chosen as the new host for XboxFriends.com...
 - Visual Favorites - Early Alpha Build
 - MVP award!!!
 - System Restore....
 - To all .TEXT users... How to see referrers filtering out search engines.
 - My name is Cory Smith, I make mistakes and am extremely proud of it!
 - I'm probably going to make someone mad, but...
 - CodeSmith - Strongly-typed ArrayList collection for VB.NET
 - Protected Overridable properties in NotInheritable classes in VB.NET
 - Adventures in CodeSmith...
 - I've been blog robbed... I feel so violated...
 - Working on a ton of things...
 - XboxFriends.com will be moving to a new web server soon...
 - VisualFavorites - A teaser screen capture.
 - New VB.NET sample application coming soon...
 - Duncan Mackenzie is just being downright cruel...
 - Hey... you haven't been doing a whole lot of VB.NET stuff lately...
 - Xbox Friends Thing - Needs a new home...
 - [RANT] Sprint... (so where there any bet takers)
 - Xbox Friends Thing... possible release later today.
 - [RANT] Sprint PCS... ever heard of BizTalk, MTS, etc.?
 - For those wondering why Xbox Friends Thing is not working...
 - Xbox Live + MSN Integration + Alerts + New Website = Me Scrambling!!!
 - [RANT] I'm in wireless phone hell (aka When automated systems fail the end user.)!
 - Obfuscation Tip of the Day - Embedded Resources
 - Xbox Friends Thing + Windows / MSN Messenger... Bringing the two together.
 - Rally Sport Challenge 2... Gorgeous! Awesome game play! Impressive physics! What a disappointment...
 - Xbox Friends Thing v1.0.6.0 Released
 - A shameless plug and I get something for free?
 - Xbox Friends Thing - New version on the horizon.
 - Web Service Woes (OK, maybe it was just a little mud.)
 - I love global community...
 - Web-based Gamertag/MSN Banner image generator...
 - Xbox Friends Thing - Displaying gameplay usage statistics...
 - Web Service Woes (It's not land, it's quicksand!!!!!!)
 - Web Service Woes (Ah... dry land... dry land at last!)
 - Web Service Woes (A light at the end of the tunnel?)
 - Web Service Woes (How to drive a developer MAD!)
 - What have I been up to?
 - Xbox Dashboard + Progressive Scan = About Time!
 - Web Service Woes (Part 2)
 - Web Service Woes (Plea For Help!!!!)
 - ASP.NET Web Service Tip of the Day
 - New article available....
 - Exploring XML Serialization
 - .TEXT .95 Upgrade complete...
 - Upgrading to .TEXT .95...
 - Damned if you do, Damned if you don't...
 - XBOX Friends Thing - 100 in one month and growing!
 - In defense of WindowsForms...
 - TransControls (part 1 and 2) source now available for download!
 - Due to popular demand...
 - What's wrong with the following picture?
 - DevDays 2004... Inspirational?
 - Using COM? ReleaseComObject is your friend.
 - VB.NET Whidbey - The TryCast operator.
 - VB.NET Whidbey Release - The IsNot operator.
 - Bug? Feature? You be the judge...
 - Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!
 - XBOX Friends v0.0.0.9 and XBOX Live 3.0 MSN Alerts and Messenger Integration
 - Blog Censorship!!!!!
 - CodeSmith 2.5 Officially Released
 - .NET XBOX Live Night (Every Saturday) Reminder
 - XBOX Live Friends Thingee (.NET Connected approvable - is that a word?)
 - XBOX Friends List (Test Bed O' Fun)
 - XBOX Friends List (Pre-Release Version)
 - XBOX Live Friends List Watcher (Windows Forms)
 - [How To] Check to see if Visual Styles are enabled
 - Revenge Of DriveInfo (Drive Serial Numbers)
 - Not something you see every day (in Fort Worth/Dallas)
 - Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers
 - Creating a Reusable Error Dialog for .NET Applications (VB.NET)
 - Windows XP Visual Styles (Themes) [How To / RANT]
 - Microsoft DevDays 2004 - March 8th - Dallas, TX
 - My computer blew up in my face... literally!
 - XBOX Live Night - Saturdays at 7pm (central)
 - MS Research TreeMap.Net
 - Coding 4 Fun Drum Machine (in VB.NET)
 - Copyrights and Sample Usage [RANT]
 - Windows XP NTFS file/share permissions...
 - Paul Vick explains what 'enable optimizations' actually does...
 - Structured Error Handling... My opinion on the subject.
 - Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
 - The Flu.... SUCKS!
 - More on Remove Integer Overflow Checks
 - VB.NET Performance Related Compiler Options
 - VB.NET Performance Optimizations
 - [ot] Test Your Digital IQ
 - XBOX Live Gamertags
 - More Contact Information
 - New Coding 4 Fun Column - Serial Controlled LCD Panel with DBComm
 - TransLabel and TransPanel's Revenge (Developing Owner Drawn User Controls - Part 2)
 - New Article (Series) - Walkthrough: Developing Owner Drawn User Controls - Part 1 (TransPanel)
 - .NET Application Memory Flush via Interop
 - Whidbey replacements to existing .NET 1.1 methods
 - Project Mono... VB.NET commitment! Finally!
 - Project Gotham Racing 2
 - MP3.com no more? Acquired by CNET.
 - How to cause Visual Studio .NET run out of memory ;-)
 - Virtual ListView (or "How to view 50,000 items in a ListView without dieing of old age.")
 - Application Compatibility and future .NET versions
 - G. Andrew Duthie in Fort Worth, TX
 - Adventures in Win32/Interop - Episode 1
 - Refactoring in VB.NET - Suggestions As Requested
 - Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented (SlashDot) - Ummm... wrong!
 - Refactoring/VB.NET - Two Options
 - The whole Refactoring/VB.NET debate
 - .NET Developer Tools Essential List
 - Working with .TEXT (Part 4)
 - Free PDC sessions on DVD!!!!
 - Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace
 - ControlArray component for .NET (similar VB6 control arrays)
 - It's as if someone read my mind... or at least my blog!!!!
 - I'm not exactly sure what Paul McCartney has to do with it, but...
 - Windows Forms - Disable the Close Button
 - Performance techniques for converting Object to structures
 - AddressOf.com Articles
 - GUID Generation and VB6 Binary Compatibility
 - Working with .TEXT (Part 3)
 - Working with .TEXT (Part 2)
 - Congrats to CodeSmith creator, Eric Smith!
 - Working with .TEXT (Part 1)
 - Moving to .TEXT
 - VB.NET's Try/Catch 'When' Clause
 - How To: Secure Your Developer Workstation
 - Microsoft CLR Profiler / DevPartner Profiler Community Edition
 - Ed Kaim Experiment #1
 - Visual Studio .NET Framework Bootstrapper Plug-in
 - Thoughts on 'Mono-culture and the .NETwork effect'
 - More on DirectShow/MPEG2 Troubles
 - Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) aka 'Palladium'
 - DirectShow and MPEG2 Video
 - Windows Update Wierdness
 - VB.NET gets unsigned types (finally!) :-)
 - CLR, Startup, Shutdown, Today and Tomorrow...
 - [insert language dajour here] vs VB
 - Declare vs. DLLImport
 - Making some noise with VB.NET
 - VB is dead? NOT!
 - Free Network 'Sniffer' Tools
 - TechEd Bloggers get together at Hard Rock Cafe
 - C# "out" modifier -> HowTo in VB.NET?
 - Exploring Static variables (VB.NET)
 - New CodeSmith release!
 - Windows Application Verifier - Rah Roh! .NET doesn't qualify?
 - VB.NET Internals Article - 8 out of 9 rating.
 - Using CR and LF: The Options. (VB.NET)
 - Community Starter Kit
 - Sunscreen?
 - Tip: Interop Structures - To String or to Char(), that is the question.
 - Color your console output using VB.NET!
 - Simple minimal windowless NotifyIcon sample
 - Convert System.Array containing Int16 values to an Byte array?
 - Tip: Read/Write Structures using FileStream
 - Don Box considers VB.NET? :-)
 - Chris Brumme discusses Asynchronous Operations
 - Tip: Read Only Property via Interface - Read Write via Class.
 - Dr. GUI has "got the blog bug"!
 - HDTV and the antenna question
 - Tip: Simple Comparer for sorting in VB.NET
 - Tip: Use ILDASM for more than viewing IL
 - MSDN TV - Resource Management with the CLR
 - Official Microsoft Smart Devices Developer Community site
 - Tip: Convert VS.NET 2003 projects to VS.NET 2002
 - VB.NET - C# - VS.NET tutorials and walkthroughs.
 - Terminator 3 Extreme Edition DVD includes HD WMV version!
 - VS.NET Macro - Region Marker
 - Microsoft's Community Support
 - Shared Memory Wrapper for .NET
 - Application config files explained!
 - Coding4Fun Issue #4
 - BlogX : Site.Config : Root
 - Additional comments on angryCoder post.
 - VS.NET "features" penalize VB.NET developers?
 - Visual Studio .NET 2003 VB6->VB.NET Upgrade Wizard
 - Concerning String.Length
 - Some "slightly less than documented" Windows API's
 - VB.NET string method to handle escape sequences.
 - WM9 HD Format!!!!! Impressive doesn't quite describe it!
 - VB.NET Wish
 - CoolMon
 - BlogX
 - Hello World!