Bradley L. Jones

The title of this blog post is a quote from the article, Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession; however, my quote is taken a bit out of context. In truth, however, SharePoint is doing very well. In fact, we launched a site focused specifically on SharePoint. If you haven’t already checked it out, stop by […]

Tuesday August 4th, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru An Introduction to the MForm Web Controls [Updated] ListView Loading Images BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG, WMF, ICO, and EMF Files [Updated] std::sort Comparison Function OK-CANCEL vs CANCEL-OK [Updated] ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics Forms […]

http://www.enduserblog.com/2009/07/windows-7-dont-discount-the-little-things.html Want to know my thoughts on Windows 7? Check out my post at Amazon. It is interesting how it is easy to miss the little things once you don’t have them!    

In today’s MSDN Flash that was delivered to my mailbox, it stated that the Windows 7 RTM would be available for MSDN Subscribers on August 6th. It is interesting that the link in the newsletter didn’t go to a page that confirmed this. The exact wording was: Developers will be able to complete their testing […]

Tuesday July 28, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru VIDEO: Intro to Microsoft CCR Forms (Dialogs) Customization Based on Moveable / Resizable Elements Declarative Programming Style Create an ActiveX using a Csharp Usercontrol Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Performance Improvements: Caching Building Responsive […]

Tuesday July 21, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru How to register a Csharp Usercontrol as ActiveX (properties, methods, events) Edit ListView SubItems TIP: Finding the Moving Average Using Prior Boundary Condition Simple Parallel Development with the Asynchronous Agents Library New Articles on Developer.com […]

Tuesday July 14, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Simple Parallel Development with the Asynchronous Agents Library CWinAPIException An ADO.NET Data Services Tutorial Creating Your Own Encryption / Decryption Program Using VB.NET 2005 Hottest Discussions New Articles on […]

Am I allowed to blog about blogging on a different blog? Is there blogging limit on how many times you can say the word blog in a blog or within individual blog entries? With the release of Windows 7 to manufacturing slated for this month (per comments at Microsoft’s WPC09), there is lots to blog […]

Microsoft has announced in a Press Release that Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 are now available. You can go to the Silverlight home page and download the newest version.I did this today and successfully downloaded and started the install of the new version: Unfortunately, I soon hit a wall: (link on dialog vanished when I […]

Tuesday July 7, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Running Custom Tracepoint Macros in Visual Studio Displaying the Input Language Indicator in a WTL Dialog Introducing the Entity Framework Using the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ to Go Parallel Hottest Discussions New Articles on […]

“It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use.” This is a quote by Richard Stallman in an article on cnet news about the use of Mono. The issue comes down to the idea that Microsoft could enforce patents at some point against the use of C#. I wonder if […]

Oracle has been in the news a lot due to its proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. We’ve watched that acquisition due to the impact it could have on Java and MySQL. Today Oracle is in the news due to a large number of announcements. As one of the big players in the computer software world, […]