Windows 8 App Development Presentation

Here’s a list of all the resources I’ve put together for my talk on Windows 8 Application Development that I gave at: The Vermont Code Camp...

Generating Windows Store Logos at Every Resolution

Introduction The first daunting challenge of getting an Windows 8 Application into the Windows Store can be resizing your app logo to each ...

Moving ASP.NET Designer Generated Code to Separate Designer.vb File

Introduction If you’ve converted an an ASP.NET application from versions of Visual Studio 2003 and earlier to 2005 and beyond, you’ll notic...

Calculating Age From DOB

I couldn’t believe there was no native way in .NET to do something alarmingly simple like calculate someone’s age from their date of birth. ...

Extending XmlReader Class: IsEndElement()

Introduction You may find, as I did, the lack of symmetry in the XmlReader Class quite odd. If we look at the NodeType property, which ex...

Automatically Increment Minimum Required Version in a ClickOnce Application

Introduction ClickOnce deployments make publishing .NET applications simple and easy. One nice feature is forcing the user to update to th...

Making Sure Outlook Calendar Reminders Actually Pop-up in Windows 7

Introduction In Windows 7, MS Outlook seems to be horribly bad at popping up calendar reminders when outlook doesn’t have focus. This can ...