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I performed my new beat poem ". <dot> Common" at the LuvJonz last night around 10:30pm to a smoke filled room of very supportive and jazzy people at Ohm. 

(By the way, The Ohm is now the new home of Johnny Ray's Grill.  I spoke with Johnny Ray briefly, and it's he's got some fantastic beef brisket for like $2.  He'll be open 24 hours on the weekends, so you just gotta get down there and get some grub.)

Anyway, it was a blast, and I hope to be down there more often.  It's a different vibe than Standup, and very different vibe than C# and PowerPoint. (although, not that different if you've ever seen one of my presentations! )

I shall be there.  I'm really looking forward to this one.  TechEd is fun, but PDC is the social and technical event of any season.

using System;
namespace Corillian.Testing
{
      class PrivateClass
      {
            public string Name;
            public int    Age;
            private PrivateClass() 
            { 
                  Name = "not initialized";
                  Age = 0;
            }
      } 

      class Test
      {
            static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                  /// The following statement will not work as the constructor is private
                  /// PrivateClass newpTest = new PrivateClass();
                  /// But you can create the object through Serialization 
                  PrivateClass ptest = (PrivateClass)System.Runtime.Serialization.FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject( typeof(PrivateClass) );
                  ptest.Name = "Scott";
                  ptest.Age = 0x1D;

                  Console.WriteLine( String.Format("{0} {1}",ptest.Name,ptest.Age );
            }
      }
}

At the PADNUG meeting last night the question (Lord knows why this always comes up :) on how to make the system "beep" was asked.  Here's two kinds of beeps, and links to some source.

The "PC Beep," including frequency and duration:

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
class MainClass
{
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
public static extern bool Beep(int freq,int duration);

 public static void Main(string[] args)
 {
  Beep(1000,1000);
  Beep(2000,500);
 }
}

The considerably more interesting "MessageBeep" (via BradA) that uses the Wav files that are configured in the Sounds Control Panel.