Eric Sink blogs his thoughts into the world about Team System, the pricing, MSDN and the recent uproar about all of this. I agree with him about the positioning of Team System, the pricing related to that positioning, the MSDN licensing as it is now and how it is misunderstood. Though I think a lot of the uproar isn't about the fact that small...

Eric Sink blogs his thoughts into the world about Team System, the pricing, MSDN and the recent uproar about all of this. I agree with him about the positioning of Team System, the pricing related to that positioning, the MSDN licensing as it is now and how it is misunderstood. Though I think a lot of the uproar isn't about the fact that small...

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The founder of VoodooExtreme, one of the first gaming sites, Billy 'Wicked' Wilson, died at age 33 yesterday. As a long time fan of VoodooExtreme and later on Gaming Groove, it was always a big pleasure reading his writings. A true icon.

The founder of VoodooExtreme, one of the first gaming sites, Billy 'Wicked' Wilson, died at age 33 yesterday. As a long time fan of VoodooExtreme and later on Gaming Groove, it was always a big pleasure reading his writings. A true icon.

Over a 100 MVP's have signed an online petition to make Microsoft migrate the behemoth Visual Basic 6 (VB6) to VS.NET and let it live on as an unmanaged language. More information can be found here: http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html I wrote a fair amount of VB5 and VB6 COM objects for MTS and COM+ utilizing systems,...

I normally don't do this, but as it's LLBLGen Pro related and it can help a .NET developer out without a job at the moment, I thought, what the heck! . NOTE: I am in no way affiliated with the company mentioned below. Mid-Level .Net Developer iHomeowners, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Mid-Level .Net Developer to join the team in our...

Mark Lucovsky left Microsoft today. Now, Mark is a legend, so I don't think he needs further introduction. What interested me was that he left to work for Google. Looking back at what Mark has done, you'll see things like 'Designing NT kernel', 'Designing in-house sourcecontrol system for win2k' etc. Not your average notepad-style projects...

Mark Lucovsky left Microsoft today. Now, Mark is a legend, so I don't think he needs further introduction. What interested me was that he left to work for Google. Looking back at what Mark has done, you'll see things like 'Designing NT kernel', 'Designing in-house sourcecontrol system for win2k' etc. Not your average notepad-style projects...

Lots has been said in the past days about Richard Grimes statement to drop .NET completely. First I thought: "Who's Richard Grimes?". That's saying more about me than mr. Grimes, as I often forget people's names as I find it more important to know what the theory is behind what they've accomplished than what their name is. What I'd like to give...

Update: Oliver Sturm made a few great suggestions to improve the expression and also fixed a bug with eager matching. Click here to view the complete comment which explains what eager matching is and how to fix it if you run into the same issue! Today I was working on a new functionality of the LLBLGen Pro code generator engines: user code...

A few days ago I blogged about a nasty bug in .NET 1.1 SP1, which made a nested groupbox control show up with garbled caption text (see here and here). It took some hoops but Microsoft has fixed this now. It's a fix that's available through PSS, and has KB number article number 890828. The fix is still under review so it might be the KB article...

A few days ago I blogged about a nasty bug in .NET 1.1 SP1, which made a nested groupbox control show up with garbled caption text (see here and here). It took some hoops but Microsoft has fixed this now. It's a fix that's available through PSS, and has KB number article number 890828. The fix is still under review so it might be the KB article...

Yesterday I blogged about a horrible huge bug in the groupbox control for winforms in .NET 1.1 SP1 on a themed XP system (and that's pretty much all XP systems nowadays, since .NET 1.1 SP1 is a mandatory fix on windows update.). Today I'll show you a repro case. It's a silly form with just two nested groupboxes. On a themed XP machine you'll...