I Love that New Syntax Smell

This will be the third time I tried to start this post. Let's see if I get derailed yet again, or if I can actually finish it this time and get it up on the blog. To break from the monotony of Windows Forms, I'm uploading a snippet that wasn't originally Read More...

Sometimes, its good to check the blogs.msdn.com aggregator . I was linked by Five Testers from VC today, whom I kept meaning to link, except that I could never remember what their URL is. One of them is my boss's boss, and the guy who convinced me that Read More...

Now that we've gotten our feet wet, it's time to try something a bit more complicated. We'll include a TextBox and a Button in this example, and also take a quick look at how we wire up events on actions like button clicks. I'm going to be skipping the Read More...

It begins... This will be a new series of articles. I'll start with some ports of existing samples (from here ), and move into some original material. I want to take a Managed C++ (and specifically a Whidbey C++) approach to Windows Forms, and investigate Read More...

As is often the case, I wrote a small program to do something useful for myself. I have a (Win32) copy of the unix “which” utility, but I wanted something that would simultaneously search my path, include, and lib environment variables. What Read More...

Where you been? Yes, it's true, I've been fairly silent. But I assure you, my reason(s) are good. Mostly, I've been skiing in Colorado, or really busy. But I'm back at work, and once I catch up on the email, there will be more tasty posts from yours truly. Read More...