Well it’s been a bit since I last posted. I’m back full steam away with 7 books to review and presentations to build.   I’m to present (Strongly Typed DAL’s) at Florida’s Code Camp this February 5th.  So all please come, I’ve heard that more slots will be opened up so don’t despair, check out ...

Hi everyone, it’s been a while, these holiday seasons can be something else huh.   In today’s world, we should all be very thankful for being able to alive and to see the New Year.   Well I have a couple things to say, I will be presenting a topic (don’t know which one (submitted a couple different ones)) at Nova ...

Well, it’s been a long time since my last blog entry.   So much has happened.   My son is now attending Pre-K to help him prepare for kindergarten.   I got to go to VS Live in Orlando, took the whole family since Ivan was threatening north Florida and I didn’t want to leave them there. I also got pictures, here I ...

It's been awhile since I have posted, I have so much to say I can hardly contain myself.   For the past few weeks, I have been working with a group of individuals in forming a Tallahassee area .NET user group. The full name of the group is ''Capital City .NET Users Group of Florida'', we added the Florida bit so it wouldn't be confused ...

The label control has been one of the worse experiences I have had in improving and customizing MS controls.   I have built a custom version and I have overridden the text property and built a UITypeEditor and a Custom form that will show the text. I can then select the text and add a link; I can remove and edit that link. This all works ...

Over the past few weeks, I have found that there is a problem between VB6 and VB.Net developers; the issues are feelings of abandonment and fear of change. I have become aware that there are lots of VB6 developers that are really upset with Microsoft. To all of you that are upset, may I suggest you read the book “Who Moved My ...

I don't get it; call me dense if you must. Why do we have a visual designer (in VS.Net) when 90% of the controls that we drag and drop and have some code entered in for them to do anything? You can drop an open dialog component onto your form, though what's it going to do? You set its properties and that's it. It doesn't respond to any events. ...

I recently went on a wild ride trying to do something that I could do in C++, it's so easy to do function pointers there, I couldn't get why I was having an issue here. I had some help from Adam Sills and others, now I have a working solution, though it isn't what I wanted, it will do the job. FYI: try and step back a bit when you can’t ...