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The Commonwealth just revised its policy on document formats to include OOXML. This is good because the old policy limited acceptable formats to "open standards." We need to let the Commonwealth know, though, that while we're happy to see...
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This Friday (May 20th) come to the Microsoft Alpharetta office for the .NET Experience Expo! This is a free event where you can come hear all about some of the hottest topics for developers and architects. This is a huge opportunity to learn more about...
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Is anybody working on an NUnit extension for BizTalk orchestrations? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Having problems to send messages to web services that have enumerated types in their method definitions? Go here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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My thoughts on “drawing” Biztalk orchestrations are here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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I added some more info on installing pre-requisites that the BizTalk installer is missing to the BizTalk Baby Steps . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Some great stuff going on with XML lately. Jan Tielens shows how to use InfoPath to access a secondary datasource , such as a SharePoint list Matt Warren then delves into some XML bestiary and shows a binary XML parser based on XmlReader . Cazz (the one...
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No, Mozilla does not natively support Data Islands, but you can mimic data islands in Mozilla using a little bit of script. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Ever wonder if there is an XML Schema for the msdata namespace (urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata) used by the DataSet generation wizard? You can find it here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Someone asked me about using a typed DataSet on both ends of the wire using a web service. I honestly don't work with typed DataSets, but this question was to accomodate the client's existing architecture. We both tried it, and couldn't get it to work....
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Douglas Reilly has a great post on what seems to be a recurring theme throughout my career. He talks about being tasked to write a system with features that he knows are fragile, implement it in such a way that maintenance and support costs are exponentially...
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Hell yeah "people" , I am going to Columbus! Got my bags packed, my friend formerly from Ohio driving, and the slide deck and examples. This is going to be a blast. I want to thank Greg Reinacker for donating a copy of Newsgator and 2 months of Online...
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INETA Academic, a committee that Jason Beres and I run, are currently looking for volunteers for the Imagine Cup local competitions around the US. If you are interested in some volunteering opportunities, like judging and speaking, please go to the site...
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I am actually not a fan of individuals posting aggregated feeds, but I found a set of posts tonight that all hit around my areas of interest. This will not be a common occurrence for me, as I am posting these mainly as a selfish set of pointers. For those...
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Tonight I used the iTextSharp libraries to transform RSS into the iTextSharp XML dialect, then transform it into PDF. This library is awesome and open source. If you haven't checked it out, I suggest you do. It is a .NET implementation of a Java library...
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Lately I have been working on some samples for my presentation in Columbus (Drew) and Austin (Scott Belleware). Tonight I came up with a new sample idea. With iTunes 4.2 being one of my favorite applications and one of the only ones, outside of VS.NET,...
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I accepted an offer from Microsoft: I will be swallowing the red pill on March 1st. My new position is Developer Evangelist for the telco vertical, and I will be based in Atlanta. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it!...
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A new hire is meandering around the work area at a company I have consulted with. The HR manager walks in. ”Hi, welcome (name withheld to protect the innocent), we are so glad to have you. Here is where your cube is, if you have any questions let...
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An interesting thread on the API Design Hall of Shame on Brad Abrams' blog. I have a question, how was the decision for these 2 classes ctor parameters made... Constructor for ArgumentNullException public ArgumentNullException( string paramName, string...
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Some very interesting work has been going on with the classes in the System.Xml namespace. Daniel Cazzulino blogs about an XseReader implementation he has been working on for providing XML Streaming Events . I had been using a similar implementation for...
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Steve Maine has a great article on using anonymous methods and higher-order procedures in C# . A point not necessarily highlighted in the article's text but rather through the code examples is that not all problems are solved through inheritance. Suppose...
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Paul Wilson emailed me with some questions regarding perceived memory leaks related to System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer. I questioned whether it would be a “memory leak”, but pinged Christoph Schittko for some backup evidence. He said...
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I thought I would add a category for rants on Project Management practices. Misinformed PM quote of the week: “Our business model simply does not allow confirming requirements before construction. The software development team is helping to shape...
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Steven Livingstone has a great tip on validation using DTDs and Schemas against an instance document that includes namespaces . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Paul Duncan asks in the microsoft.public.xsl list how to set a property for an XSLT extension object. Yes, there is a way to do set the property of an XSLT extension object in .NET. But... This is such an ugly hack, I feel dirty posting the solution....