Grant Winney

I’ve always been a fan of RSS.

Microsoft sent an email the other day, letting all of us Windows 10 holdouts know that they’ll be providing security updates for an extra year.

A couple weeks ago, I stumbled on an old JS game that lets you navigate a 3D maze created in ASCII characters, but being that it was over 25 years old and hosted on a long gone site, it didn’t work very well, lol.

I was trying to get something to work in IrfanView the other day, and for once, instead of being taken to reddit or stackexchange or a yt short, I was surprised to find myself on a homey website called etherwork.net.

Just a warning, if you’re reading this (and you must be, unless you’re tasting or smelling it somehow) I can’t promise you’ll learn anything.

It’s probably a good sign that you’ve found the right career for yourself, when you spend time over the weekend on a small project that uses the same skills you spent all week using professionally!

After installing Visual Studio 2026 recently, which rolled out this past November, the first thing I noticed when I went to start it was the shortcut.

We’ve had the null conditional operator for years, since C# 6.

Visual Studio 2026 was released a week ago, so it’s time to checkout C# 14 and see what new and interesting goodies we got, starting with extension members!

It’s Thanksgiving in the US, and one of the many things I’m thankful for this year is to be back where I started my career nearly 20 years ago, working at a company with a product people need, that rewards hard work, embraces new tech, and provides opport…

Despite a few side projects and a lot of playing around (like on this blog), the vast majority of the code I’ll ever write will be for large projects shared by dozens or even hundreds of developers, all of them contributing to millions of lines written ov…

I used to have a nice little contact form here, but it was mostly used by people who wanted to help me take my site to the next level.

For the last 20 years, the .NET Framework (starting with 2.0 in 2005) has had two structures for storing date/time values - DateTime and DateTimeOffset.

When one thinks of WinForms, one does not generally think of the web at the same time, unless it’s how they wish they could move their app from one to the other.

Since the earliest versions of .NET, the MessageBox class has given WinForms developers a way to send notifications (usually alerts and warnings) to users.

It’s great that, even after so many years, the teams at Microsoft continue to add updates to their oldest technologies with every .NET release.

Scouring the features that WinForms got in .NET 8, I found one slipped in near the very bottom of the list under “miscellaneous improvements” called GetStockIcon.

Some of the many additions to C# and the .NET Framework are huge (like LINQ or async), while others are much smaller.

The C# and .NET teams are always adding interesting, useful features, more frequently than ever since the norm has become annual releases.

When C# 9 was released in 2020, one of the main focuses was on “removing ceremony”, as they put it.