I am laying out the scope of a learning project idea. In my day job I sell software that communicates with serial ports (RS-232c). So I want to learn more about how to use VB.NET for serial port communications. I came across Richard L. Grier’s website (HardandSoftware.net) and wanted to give him a thanks for a lot of good references on his site. His terminal application (see download page) is a good starting place for what I am looking to learn.
On my wife’s blog (2SecondsFaster.com) we put up a “Saturday Mixer” and it is a weekly “you take over the conversation” post. As a joke, I thought I would put the post rules up in VB.NET code. Below is my code for a simple Console App.
Code Snippet
- Module saturdayMixer
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- Sub Main()
- Dim saturdayMixer As String
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- Console.WriteLine("Do you know the rules? (y or n)")
- saturdayMixer = Console.ReadLine()
- ' saturdayMixer = Console.ReadLine()
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- If saturdayMixer = "y" Then
- Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the Saturday Mixer!" & ControlChars.CrLf _
So Microsoft announced Windows Mobile Phone 7 today. Looks great and since I really like the Zune UI, this should be a great experience. I have been holding off getting the Zune HD because I wanted to see if it was going to survive or not and WinPh7 (is that a good acronym?) is taking the Zune UI and placing a phone and whole host of other services with it.
I think it looks great and is a game changing moving from Microsoft, which was needed. Good job MS.
Check out the Official Website for Windows Phone 7.
This has been a heck of a week. I went to the corporate office and had my computer rebuilt. It is horrible being without a computer for a couple days. On top of that I have a heavy class load for school, so I got behind. It is hard to learn to code and only have the book to look at. You need Visual Studio to actually learn from playing with code!
Ok, got the new PC and been prepping it for dev use… Gone swimmingly so far. Now I want to experiment with Virtual PC for Windows 7 (my old PC was not capable of doing this). The only problem is that I have no experience with running a virtual machine and I have had a horrible time finding a walk through. So here is the beginner guide by a beginner for Virtual PC.
- You need to know if you can run Virtual PC. Download and run this application. It will test your computer for processor compatibility.
