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Two Excel Links

That I came upon recently and didn't make it to my excel site:

Excel Shag Tournament - I Prefer the newer release.

Charting Lindsay Lohan's Breasts with Excel

VB.Net 2005 Beta 2 Bug

Ran into my first bug with Beta 2 today. In the IDE the arrow keys, delete, backspace, and function keys quit working. Very strange, very frustrating.

After fumbling around for while and googling I found nothing. I tried running the project, then back in the IDE everything was back to normal?

So if you have the same problem of keys that quit working in the IDE, try simply running a solution (without errors). The bug has already been reported multiple times so I skipped the feedback.

Microsoft and Amazon Developer Contest

This looks like fun: The Microsoft - Amazon Web Services Developer Contest.

"Build an Amazon Web Services application using Microsoft software and you can win the grand prize: $5,000!"

I've already coupled the companies once with this basic demo. I've got a few Ideas for dotnet apps with the amazon web services if I get some time.

Also, found AwsZone today. Easy examples of the various amazon queries, even outputs code in various languages if you look around a bit.

Channel 9 Guy and Google Maps Moon Edition

Scoble posts today on how to get your hands on a channel 9 guy. I'll have to pick up a postcard.

Unrelated but from the same post is a link to the Google Maps Moon Edition (be sure to zoom in all the way).

Shareware Starter Kit

Write cool software, sell it, profit! :-) - Jeff Sandquist has the links on the new shareware starter kit for VB and C.

All the tools for creating and distributing your own shareware software.

Convert C to VB.Net and Vice Versa

Free Code Translation for .NET (C#<->VB.NET) - A tool for converting C sharp to VB.Net or converting VB.Net to C#

Might come in hand in the near future.

Free Visual Basic 2005 Book

Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers.. I haven't developed a desktop app in a long time, certainly not in vb.net (minus a hello world app or two).

I may dive into the free book since I've been toying with the idea of pursuing an MCAD cert. Possibly it will make the decision easier.

Convert VBA Code to Dot NET

My wager is this article will gain in popularity: Convert VBA Code to Visual Basic .NET When Migrating to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

...when office 12 ships.

Dot Net Starter Kits

If I ever recieve my VS.Net beta copy I'll be heading here first Visual Studio 2005 Starter Kits

The Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection Starter Kit looks good.