Mouse Wheel for Visual Basic 6.0 IDE Update

Mouse wheel events do not work in the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE

The Mouse Wheel add-in for the VB6 IDE has been updated and released.

Yeah, I know this add-in has been blogged about before, but what I didn't know and think is cool, is that the current maintainer blog's about his work on it.

For example, here's the blog post that prompted the release of this latest version, More updates for the VB6/VBA mouse wheel fix.

Also I didn't realize that the source is included with the add-in (you can tell I've never downloaded/used it before can't you?).

Since I'm sure to have a few more years left in VB6 (no matter how hard I fight to move everything to VB8[aka VB.Net 2, aka VS 2005, aka .Net Framework 2.0, etc, etc]), this might come in handy.

(via robgruen's WebLog - Latest VB6/VBA MouseWheel updates have been published to Q837910)

Joel Semeniuk Dives into Team System, "How it is used in the real world..."

Download details: Joel Semeniuk Dives into Team System

"Joel Semeniuk gets us deeper into Visual Studio Team System by taking us step by step through the process of how it is used in the real world. For introductory information about Visual Studio Team System, see show #117."

I plan on attending a couple VSTS sessions during PDC (including the pre-conference "Software Development with Visual Studio Team System" session) but this download still sounds interesting...

I like "real world" since that's were I usually live.... ;)

Infragistics Blogs

Infragistics :: Blogs

Interesting... Looks like Infragistics has joined the Blog game.

(via Joel Ross - Infragistics Is Blogging

Ill tell you what...

I’ll tell you what…

I’ll not only donate the entire amount of my next Ad Sense check (which I’m still 12% away from hitting the $100 minimum payment amount), but I’ll also match it in total with my own funds. So if I get a check from Google for $101, I’ll donate $202... etc, etc.

There are a number of other bloggers in my blogroll who are also doing what they can to help. Please visit them as well to take part in their efforts.

Lazycoder - My ad revenue this month goes to Katrina relief
RetroSight :: Charlie Owen - Donate To American Red Cross Hurricane Relief To Enter Raffle for a Copy of Visual Studio 2005
Ed Bott - Give to the Red Cross and I'll send you a book

And of course, American Red Cross

Thank you again,
Greg

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My Next/First Ad Sense Check Goes to Katrina Relief
American Red Cross -Donation

.NET Reference Bot for MSN Messenger

.NET Reference Bot for MSN Messenger

"... created a Windows Service that utlizes the DotMSN library (which is easy to use, and overall badass) to respond to messages from MSN Messenger sent to dotnetreference@hotmail.com. The message content will be used to search a list of classes, interfaces, etc. in the .NET Framework Class Libraries. If a match is found, the name, brief description of the class and a link will be returned to the user. ..."

Another interesting MSN IM bot...

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Use Your Instant Messenger To Query Amazon
Sending MSN messages from the Command Line
DotMSN 2.0 Released
dotMSN - .NET MSN Messenger library

Developer Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers

"Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference.

I have rounded up over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful. ..."

There are some interesting cheat sheets in this cheat sheet link list. From CSS and HTML to SQL to SVN to Google to ASCII Character codes and more...

Office 2003 Add-in: Desktop Language Settings

Download details: Office 2003 Add-in: Desktop Language Settings

"Overview
This download allows you to identify and change language, keyboard, and regional settings for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office 2003 programs with a single tool. You can compare the settings of these programs and make changes as appropriate.

...

This program incorporates the functionality of tools such as:
Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings
The Language bar
Text Services and Input Languages
Regional Language Options "

I've been having in Unicode/Language/asian character set "fun" for the last few months. That makes this add-in sound interesting...

The downside is that this add-in is really just a wrapper/menu system for the related underlying Windows/Office applets. So while it's nice to have all the info on one form, there's no easy way to change all the settings at one time (i.e. convert all the system display/language/settings/etc from English to Japanese). You still have to go through each applet to make the given changes...

My Next/First Ad Sense Check Goes to Katrina Relief

Scott at Lazycoder has a great idea, one which I am going to shamelessly copy. "... For the month of september, any money I make off of the ads I’m going to donate to the hurricane relief..."

I'll tell you what. My next, which will be my first, check amount from Google Ad Sense will go to the American Red Cross. It doesn't matter if the check comes next month, or in the coming months. Also doesn't matter the amount of the check. I will donate the entire amount of my next(first) Ad Sense check. I'll donate the amount of the check, the day I receive it...

Google only cuts checks monthly and only when the amount is over $100. I've only got 20% to go to get that first check...

You can find my Ad Sense panel on the right side of my blog, down the page a bit. It's kind of buried, I know (I only added it to see if I could).

You'll have to trust me that when I get the check that I will donate that amount... But it's time for a little trust, isn't it?

Thank you

Related Past Post X-Ref:
American Red Cross -Donation

Excel XML Writer: Generating Excel Workooks without Excel

Generating Excel Workooks without Excel

"Why I wrote Excel Xml Writer
One day I found myself having to build a Web Application that one of the requirements involved generating a nice Excel Workbook that users could then play with. This required quite some styling and several other features that you can only do with Excel (like setting printer options and document properties).

...

Solution
Luckily ever since Office XP, Excel supports a new file format called Xml Workbook (or something like that), this allow you to create an Xml document that follows a certain schema and Excel will work as if it were the binary XLS format (though not all features at supported like Charts).

....

This is exactly what Excel Xml Writer is, just a simple object model that generates Xml following the Excel Xml Workbook schema. ...

...

Now, even better I decided to write a code generator tool so that you don’t need to write all the styling code and superficial stuff and just focus on the actual data. This tool allows you to open an Excel Xml Workbook that you have created in Excel, and it will generate the C# or VB.NET code that you can use to generate it. This means that you can create the skeleton with all the formatting options in Excel and then just generate the code. ..."

This sounds like a VERY cool C# component. The code generator is a great addition too. You can really tell when someone is using their own tools...

Make sure you also check out some of the cool things on Carlos's site. The CodeColorizer sounds nifty. Now if only I felt IP safe enough to post code...

(via Richard Dudley - August BADNUG Meeting - ExcelXmlWriter and Skinning DotNetNuke