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Category Archives: CSharp
Yet Another Program I Want to Make
Oh for the time to actually do some programming. I was looking at a college schedule, trying to figure out what classes I would want to take. For [..]
Back on the Developer Reading Block
I am getting back to reading Murach’s C# 2005 and Visual C# 2005 How to Program (2nd Edition) (How to Program) as I am finding myself a bit [..]
My Lottery Program Part 4
Continuing my updates on the progress of my Lottery Program, I recently got it to parse the Mega Millions website to get the latest numbers. Basically it gets [..]
What Time Do I Leave Friday Updated
My What Time Do I Leave Friday program had a minor update today. No change to the main program, but the installer no longer chokes if your version [..]
My Lottery Program, Part 3
What I meant to say in my previous post about my Lottery Program before I got too distracted, was to continue on about selling the program in a [..]
More on My Lottery Program
Continuing where I left off with regards to My Lottery Program that I want to make. It also occurred to me while starting out the design there are [..]
My Lottery Program
While checking out the USA Mega site yesterday, which I mentioned in my lottery post, I was browsing around I and found their Mega Millions Statistics. It seems [..]
Microsoft’s Beginner Developer Learning Center
Microsoft has launched their Beginner Developer Learning Center which takes people from no programming experience to a basic level of experience. It teaches Visual Basic and/or C# whichever [..]
What Time Do I Leave Friday Updated
I made a couple minor changes to my What Time Do I Leave Friday program that I made. This brings the beta from 0.5 to 0.5.3. One of [..]
What Time Do I Leave Friday Ready for Testing
My What Time Do I Leave Friday program is ready for testing. Contact me for the setup file. I can either send it as a zip file, where [..]
What Time Do I Leave Friday Ready for Testing this Weekend
My program What Time Do I Leave Friday will be ready for testing this weekend (26th or probably 27th of August). Let me know if you want to [..]
C# Help Needed
If there are any C# programmers out there reading this, perhaps you can help. First I’ll repost a screen shot of the program I am working on: Under [..]
New Feature Being Added to What Time Do I Leave Friday
I thought about the fact that some people may not have the time they worked so far in the week, just a time sheet of times in and [..]
What Time Do I Leave Friday Screenshots from Beta 2
Here a screenshots of Beta 2 of my program, What Time Do I Leave Friday (my first semi-practical program): The main screen: Here the user enters the total [..]
You Too Can Make XBox 360 Games
Anyone using Visual C# 2005, Express Edition can now make games for the XBox 360! There is a small licensing fee to pay per year, $99. I am [..]
Program Now At Beta 2
My What Time Do I Leave Friday program is now in it’s second beta. I added the ability to put in a lunch and to change the standard [..]
My First Semi-Practical C# Program
I made my first semi-practical C# program over the last couple of days. I probably would have had it done in less then one day had I the [..]
Refactoring Rocks
I just did the first part of Exercise 6-1 in Murach’s C# 2005, and while I had read the part earlier about Refactoring, it didn’t hit me at [..]
Why Didn’t I Remember or Think of That?
I was working on Exercise 4-2 in Murach’s C# 2005 which at one point has you figure out how to display the largest, smallest and mid point of [..]
Murach’s C# 2005
You may have noticed on the Now Reading list in the sidebar that I am reading Murach’s C# 2005, an update on their older C# book. I got [..]


