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An Updated Screensaver Example (Matt Gertz)

January 23, 2009 Jan 23, 2009 01/23/09
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I’ve just completed a task that I set out to do about five years ago, and I am pretty proud (and tired)!  I have just finished scanning in every single photo that I’ve acquired over my 40+ years of life, fixing up their dates to reflect the date when the picture was taken, not when it was scanned.  Furthermore, I have tagged ...

Sshhh… it’s a secret (Matt Gertz)

December 27, 2008 Dec 27, 2008 12/27/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Back in seventh grade, I had a pretty heavy crush on a girl named Melissa.  She was a good friend of mine, and so I had no problems talking to her.  However, being painfully shy back then, I was far too nervous to ever ask her to “go with” me.  (For those not steeped in American traditions, to “go with” a girl or boy in ...

M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)

December 9, 2008 Dec 9, 2008 12/9/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
M. G. Phone Home (Matt Gertz)I have a slight problem with my cell phone.  It’s a smartphone; I love it, I use it all the time, and I don’t what I’d do without it, but I’ve been pretty aggravated with its support of Bluetooth.  It will fail to pair with the Sync system in the car at random times, which drives ...

Shell Games (Matt Gertz)

October 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008 10/31/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
I was once temporarily taken off the VB team to get an unrelated project back on track, just a mere handful of weeks before it was due to ship.  I won’t go into the gory details; suffice it to say that we had reason to believe that the product would have to ship without delay, and that any major failure in the deliverable could ...

Community Interview with Matt Gertz (Beth Massi)

October 17, 2008 Oct 17, 2008 10/17/08
Beth Massi
Here's another community interview from our Italian Visual Basic MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this time with Matt Gertz. Matt still posts frequently on the VB Team blog even though he's changed roles (look at how big his name still is in our tag cloud on the right ;-)). Matt is a great technical leader here at Microsoft and he really loves the ...

Building a Zune Playlist (Matt Gertz)

September 20, 2008 Sep 20, 2008 09/20/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
Well, that was… intense. You may have noticed the lack of articles coming from my direction.  I have been so buried in work, and so far behind, that when I look forwards all I see is backwards.  I work, I drive home, I work some more, and it all seems to keep piling up.  I would like to say that this is going to change soon, ...

Protein is Good for You, part 2 (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
In yesterday’s blog post, I walked through an engine for translating DNA to its amino acid results via messenger RNA.  In today’s blog, we’ll work on the visualization using WPF StackPanels.  (This example requires VS2008, although it could certainly be written in WinForms as well with just a little bit of extra ...

Protein is Good for You (Matt Gertz)

June 17, 2008 Jun 17, 2008 06/17/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
As I was preparing to graduate from the University of Michigan way back in the late eighties, I had a big decision to make regarding grad school – robotics at Carnegie Mellon, or biology at Washington State?  On the one hand, biology was something I’d always really loved, having even intended to go to med school at one point.&...

Milestone Quality & Dogfooding (Matt Gertz)

March 28, 2008 Mar 28, 2008 03/28/08
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
After some hard but fruitful work, we’ve just finished our “milestone quality” (MQ) efforts, the goal of which was to get ourselves ready for developing the next versions of Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET.  Although not specific to Visual Basic, I’ve opted to use this “bully pulpit” to let you ...