Kenny Kerr

Don’t mess with nerds.

This is hilarious and yet so sad.

Jordy posted a question to MSDN’s new forums website that I thought would be interesting to readers of my blog. Basically he wants to convert the following native C++ code to managed code:

From a completely unrelated Google search I came across this post by Fritz Onion over on pluralsight mentioning that he was happy to see Visual Basic 2005 adopting the C# using statement to make resource management a little easier in VB. He went on to concede that it wasn’t quite as elegant as the corresponding C#. Here is the VB example he provided:

I haven’t been blogging much over the last few months mostly because I’ve been real busy on various projects, the most significant being my new book entitled Applied Visual C++ 2005. Hopefully I will be able to write more about it in the coming weeks. In a nutshell, it introduces Visual C++ 2005 as a language and compiler for developing applications targeting the .NET Framework.

I’ve noticed that quite a few people in the community have been wondering why on earth the System.Enum type in version 2 of the .NET Framework lacks a generic Parse method. If you haven’t used the Parse method lately, an example will help to clarify the frustration many developers have experienced.

Earlier this year I wrote an introduction to some of the safety features available to hobbyist developers using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. You can read it here:

I just noticed that my Icon Browser utility is featured on MSDN. This was one of the first .NET applications I wrote back in 2001 and is still one of the most useful little tools I’ve written on a sleepless night, mostly due to the “Export Icon” feature. You can read the full article here: