Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in CSharp, Programming, Visual Basic on Mar 9th, 2007
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 one want. The first thing you decide is which track you want, Web Development for dynamic web sites, web applications and services, or Windows Development for making [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming, Visual Basic on Apr 29th, 2006
One of the important things to learn with programming is good database design and implementation. To that end Microsoft has released some videos recently to learn SQL Server. Something I’ll have to keep in mind once I get to that point in learning C#.
Posted in CSharp, Cpp, Programming, Visual Basic on Apr 26th, 2006
Visual Studio Express was to be free for 1 year from November 7th. Microsoft has had a change of heart, and has made it free forever (story). That link also has information on a .Net interface for Lego Mindstorms (I want that Mindstorms kit so bad… that particular kit I linked is the new NXT [...]
Posted in Programming, Visual Basic on Oct 18th, 2005
For a limited time, Microsoft is giving away free books:
Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
and
Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers
hat tip: AnandTech
Visual Studio 2005 should be out next month, as well as the Express Editions. I can’t wait for the C# Express Edition…
Posted in CSharp, Programming, Visual Basic on Aug 5th, 2005
I discovered this little gem today, which helps me keep the code I write to an 80 character limit: Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio editor.
My settings: RGB(243, 243, 243) 4, 79. Per one of the Feedbacks that said that gives it a light gray, which worked well for me, and the original [...]
Posted in CSharp, Programming, The Daily Word, Visual Basic on Aug 1st, 2005
My, The DailyWord program has jumped ship again. This time from Visual Basic .Net to C# and the .Net 2.0 platform. My enjoyment of learning C# grows and I think it is the best language to move The DailyWord to. As you may have noticed I have changed the name from “The Daily Word” to [...]
Posted in Programming, The Daily Word, Visual Basic on May 23rd, 2005
As I said before The Daily Word is being redone from the ground up. Some of the changes one can expect:
Rather then put the daily reading onto a VB form, which has links to read the daily reading on the default browser, the new version puts the daily reading on a web page itself, which [...]
Posted in Programming, The Daily Word, Visual Basic on May 21st, 2005
If you have been following the saga of my The Daily Word program, you know I am developing it in Visual Basic. The current Alpha uses Visual Basic 6, and I was about to move development over to Visual Basic .Net, then realized that Visual Basic .Net 2003 was the current version so was about [...]
Posted in Programming, The Daily Word, Visual Basic on May 2nd, 2005
It has been a long time since I updated about the status of the program I was making for a school project called The Daily Word. Well, it was finished, to a degree. The project as it is has been scrapped and I have gone back to the drawing board. I am building it anew [...]
Posted in Programming, Visual Basic on Feb 9th, 2005
It took me ages to find out how to use Microsoft's Calendar Control 10.0 in Visual Basic 6. All I wanted to do was figure out how to get the Calendar Control onto a form, then use it once it was there. Just to share with those that care, to test it out I [...]
Imajica: Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix by Clive Barker