After running Vista x64 on another machine for a few days; installing various pieces of critical software and seeing that everything seemed to be working smoothly... I've made the full leap on my main desktop machine (the one that now has 4GB of memory). Some interesting "facts":Windows Experience Index reports my processor running ...

I need to run it through it's paces, but I now have a VS2005 macro that will, whenever I successfully build a release mode project, package the project folder into a zip file named [ProjectName]_src_v[OutputAssemblyFileVersion].zip.  And it doesn't require anything additional to be installed on the machine.  And it's not ...

-- Begin Rant -- Now, I'm not sure what the “real” reason behind a decision (albiet a rumor, but I don't doubt it) of pulling the VB namespace from the modified Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 that is being done for the Xbox 360.  My first question, not even VB related, is why in the world would a company want to ...

In the last two days, I've encountered at as many instances where certain members within Microsoft just ain't showin' us VB users any love. The latest Microsoft Download Notifications email states:Download the Complete DirectX SDKThis software development kit includes the DirectX Runtime and the software you need to create ...

Yes, you read that correctly!  VB 2005 will have full support for refactoring in the form of a community edition of Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005.  Refactoring tools include: Rename (Native to VB 2005, not a part of Refactor!.) Reorder Parameters Extract Method Extract Property Create Overload Surrounds With ...

I've completed the conversion for the ArrayList.cst and IList.cst C# source files distributed with CodeSmith to VB.NET (all 2752 lines of it ;-) ).  Assuming I don't have any conversion bugs left it in (I've done some testing and it's working great for my purposes).  My goal was to keep the translation as close as possible to the ...

I forgot to mention on the list that I'm also working on converting some of the CodeSmith templates for generating strongly-typed ArrayList collections from C# to VB.NET.  After some further adventures in the land of FxCop, I noticed that some of the conversion wasn't as close as it should have been so dug in a little deeper and now the ...

The main menu and toolbars aren't completed just yet (more of a placeholder), worked on getting the general layout (which is all resizable) complete.  Also got all the folder editing (new, rename, delete) via context menu and now include drag 'n drop folder moving.  The treeview drag 'n drop emulates the behavior of Windows Explorer ...

I'm now working on a utilitarian type application that will allow you to manage your Internet Explorer favorites in a much better way.  Well, at least in a way that I find 'better'. ;-)  I've been toying with this idea for a while and now it's begun. Since there are a ton of these types of applications that exist today out in the wild, ...

This is a comment I received from someone in passing last week.  Looking around, I have to agree with them :-(  Not trying to make excuses, but I can say that my spare time lately has been very sparse with several projects.  But, now that I've been made aware of the lack of material being made available, I can attempt to improve on ...