Ever since upgrading to Win7, I’ve been without VB.NET to mess around with. For one reason or another, the web deployment for VB.NET Express 2010 won’t begin the download on my PC. I finally did some digging around in my discs around here, and found my old 2003 edition from when I went to the community college. I went ahead and installed it. There seems to be some compatibility issue somewhere with the development environment executable, but I have yet to find anything. Anyway, I wanted to build something and see if things worked out alright.

I went ahead and remade my old console program makebin into a small windowed program. It’s not really much, and I only use it to make blank binary files for use in Tile Layer Pro (File -> New has never worked for me). But hey, it was nice to see I can still use an older VB.NET : ) Here is the windowed version of it: makebin2. If you like the program but prefer command line and also a Linux build: makebin.

Not much to this post, but I’ve got a ton I’m working on. Hopefully back to palettes next time!