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• Linq - Episode 1

  Posted: 02 Jun 2008 at 21:55 by CorySmith

  Linq is very, very, very cool.  I can easily envision looking three years from now and wonder "how did we write software without Linq?".  Several recent language editions have helped to reduce code needed and thus made my development life easier.  However, I have to say that

• MVP Summit 2008 - Day 1

  Posted: 14 Apr 2008 at 16:25 by CorySmith

  Although the MVP Summit doesn't actually begin until Monday morning, a lot of activities are scheduled by those in the community just prior to the Summit.  For the last four years, Rod Paddock (Editor-in-Chief for Code magazine) has hosted a BBQ gathering at his house.  This event

• Busy, busy, busy...

  Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 23:26 by CorySmith

  Sorry for the lack updates; it definitely hasn't been due to a lack of ideas. ;-)  So here's a quick update before I have to get back to it.Right now I'm preparing to head to Redmond for a week of interaction with the various Microsoft product teams and fellow MVPs from around the w

• Fort Worth DNUX - 2/27/2008 @ 6:30pm

  Posted: 27 Feb 2008 at 17:42 by CorySmith

  If you are in Fort Worth and interested in getting up to speed on WPF/Silverlight... XAML is one of the key components of doing so.  Tonight's presentation is XAML 101 being presented by yours truly... Hope to see ya there.http://dnux.org for more information.

• Face Off: VCR vs DVR

  Posted: 21 Jan 2008 at 16:16 by CorySmith

  I know that this entry is bit strange given what is normally on this site, but bear with me...In one corner we have the VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) and in the other we have the DVR (Digital Video Recorder).  Both attempt to solve similar problems.  Both have their strengths and thei

• Action Movie Night - September 22nd

  Posted: 14 Sep 2007 at 03:10 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, September 22, 2007, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP.  The movies being shown are: AND&n

• Yet another "user group" in Dallas/Fort Worth - Announcing "dnux"!

  Posted: 15 Aug 2007 at 17:29 by CorySmith

  Announcing the Dallas/Fort Worth dnux group.  What is it?  .NET has been growing in size over the past 5+ years and, as such, it's hard to cover everything in a .NET user group meeting.  Some people may call what dnux is as a "sig"; however, although there are similariti

• Action Movie Night - August 18th

  Posted: 15 Aug 2007 at 17:19 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!(Yeah, I know, it's a bit late in getting this notice out there... but I do have a valid excuse.   To hear it, you'll just have to come to movie night.)This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday&nb

• Oklahoma Code Camp 2007 - Oklahoma City, OK - July 27th, 2007

  Posted: 28 Jul 2007 at 12:12 by CorySmith

  It's dark-thirty in the morning and I'm headed out the door up to Oklahoma City, OK to speak.  I'm going to attempt to get there for the opening, which is about 2 hours and 45 minutes from now... and local.live.com says it's about a 3 hour and 22 minute drive.  We'll se

• Console Event Handling

  Posted: 23 Jul 2007 at 23:19 by CorySmith

  Someone sent me an IM asking if I knew of a way to handle the pressing of the close button on a console application.  After a bit of research, I found a way (and some limitations).  This required stepping outside of the Microsoft .NET Framework utilizing P/Invoke.  This allowed m

• Action Movie Night - July 21st

  Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 20:40 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, June 21, 2007, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP.  The movies being shown are: AND  Yes,

• Presenting tonight at the North Dallas .NET User Group

  Posted: 11 Jul 2007 at 20:45 by CorySmith

  If your in the Dallas area (or more specifically, the North Dallas area), swing by NDDNUG tonight for my presentation on developing for Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005.  (Of course discussing VS'08 can't be avoided and everything I'm speaking on works in VS'08).  Mee

• A "Secret" Movie

  Posted: 06 Jul 2007 at 21:54 by CorySmith

  So I saw Transformers the other day.  It was a pretty decent movie except the director bought into the ill conceived idea that shaking the camera all around would somehow make the action scenes more intense.  I mean it's supposed to be a special effects movie... not something to m

• Action Movie Night - June 30th

  Posted: 27 Jun 2007 at 17:32 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, June 30, 2007, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP.  The movies being shown are: AND  I was

• Technology Avalanche

  Posted: 22 Jun 2007 at 03:23 by CorySmith

  I have to admit that lately I've been feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of new technology that I need to grok in order to stay ahead of the curve.  In a relatively short window of time, we've had Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows C

• Comments are back!

  Posted: 22 Jun 2007 at 02:04 by CorySmith

  I know a lot of people that will be happy to know (thus why I'm pointing it out here) that anonymous comments on AddressOf.com have returned.  Based on a recommendation given by Scott Hanselman in regards to what he uses to combat comment spam, AddressOf.com now uses the same service.Y

• It's about time!

  Posted: 20 Jun 2007 at 20:33 by CorySmith

  I'm a huge fan of the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboard.  It's about time people like me get a wireless option. ;-) Introducing the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000.  It's supposed to be available sometime in July... so I'll keep my eyes out for them on the shelves and let you k

• GotDotNet, may you rest in peace

  Posted: 20 Jun 2007 at 20:08 by CorySmith

  In an effort to preserve some of the contributions I made to GotDotNet, I'm making them available here. Windows Media Player 9 Series Metadata Sample [2/9/2003] This is a port of the WmpML C++ sample included with the Player 9 SDK to VB.NET. Shows how to read/write to media players metadata; not the

• "Blocked" by Windows Vista at startup? (Hack)

  Posted: 17 Jun 2007 at 17:37 by CorySmith

  So you have an application that is "blocked" at startup by Windows Vista.  Every time you have to restart the computer, you see the bubble displayed in the lower right hand corner of the screen letting you know that you had an application blocked.  You then use the notify icon to interroga

• Didn't go to Tech-Ed 2007?

  Posted: 14 Jun 2007 at 17:46 by CorySmith

  If you didn't get the opportunity to attend Tech-Ed 2007 (or you somehow missed the keynote), you can watch it here.  If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, at least take the time to watch the first few minutes... you're sure to get a laugh. On a similar note, I'm still catching up fr