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Friday, July 25, 2008 5:43 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0

The Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 was originally created by Microsoft China to help meet the curriculum needs for teaching programming in that country. According to regulations/policies of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) almost
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments
Friday, July 11, 2008 6:09 AM

The Four Digit Problem

So I was remembering a piece of code I had to write once. Honestly I don’t remember exactly why I had to write it. I think it may have been part of a set of patterned data for some test software though. In any case the problem was to generate a four digit
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 8 Comments
Monday, June 23, 2008 6:38 AM

RampUp – Learn Microsoft Technology Online

I just found out about the RampUp program. Briefly this is a program that lets people sign up for and take online training on various Microsoft developer technology such as web development and Visual Studio. There are special tracks for Java developers
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:45 AM

A Whole Pile of Programming Competition Questions

I was looking through the web site for the HP Code Wars competition the other day and came across the page where they list the questions they have used in this annual high school programming competition since 1999. (The previous years questions – including
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:30 AM

A Stopwatch Object in .NET

Did you know that there was a Stopwatch object in .NET? Me either. Apparently it was added in the .NET Framework in version 2.0 and no one told me. Imagine that. Seriously though I have often had to add some code in various projects to understand how
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, January 04, 2008 11:09 AM

Friday Interesting Links

I found a couple of short things I felt I should link to today. Martin Schray pointed me at an interesting post at the Visual Basic blog that I really should have linked to earlier. Amanda Silver wrote up about some "hidden gems" in Visual Basic 2008
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:35 AM

Some Interesting and Useful Curriculum Links - Visual Basic, XNA, Other Intro CS

Over the holiday I did some browsing around the Internet. I found a couple of new blogs to follow, read some posts by people who hadn't blogged in a while, and just stumbled across some interesting things while looking for something completely different.
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Friday, December 28, 2007 4:15 AM

Use Your Wii Controller To Fly Through Virtual Earth

Now I love Virtual Earth and I especially enjoy using my Xbox 360 controller to fly around, zoom in and out and otherwise travel though the three dimensional maps. Its all so much better than using the mouse or arrow keys. Virtual Earth supports the Xbox
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, December 07, 2007 3:25 AM

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

There is a problem, a technical problem, that I hear about from teachers from time to time. I've passed along a couple of solutions to it by email but it occurred to me that posting the issue and the possible solutions here might make it easier for people
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:29 AM

How Do I - Videos

I found out about a bunch of new videos that show how to do different things with different Microsoft development products. They all run between 10 and 15 minutes and focus on specific tasks. They are adding new videos every week so you may even want
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Friday, November 23, 2007 3:16 AM

Visual Studio Express 2008 is out

Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing this week and there is a lot of news about it around the Internet. Almost lost in the excitement (well geek excitement anyway) is that the newest versions of Visual Studio Express have also been released.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:51 AM

Insert Cute Little Cartoon Mascot Here

A long long time ago in a place far far away I was an operating system developer. OK it wasn't a place far far away in that it was here in New Hampshire where I still live but for many of you that is a far far away place in some ways. This was almost
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:53 AM

Reals and Integers, Apples and Oranges

Do you remember when you first learned about real numbers? I do. Things had been so easy when all I had to track was whole numbers. Even division was nice and neat. If you couldn't divide evenly you just moved the remainder of to the side. Nice and smooth
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments
Monday, August 20, 2007 3:27 PM

Visual Basic Power Pack Now with Shape Controls

I'm an old Visual Basic guy. Not just in age but in going back to early versions of Visual Basic (I installed version 1.0 but upgraded to version 3 soon after) so its not surprising that I miss some of the features that were "lost" when Visual Basic went
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:46 AM

How to Do Cool Things in Visual Basic

OK here's the deal. If you are teaching Visual Basic, programming in Visual Basic for fun or profit, or just interested in how Visual Basic works you really should be subscribed to the Visual Basic Team Blog . Why? A couple of sample links should tell
Posted by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments
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