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• 	Microsoft PDC Workshop - Developing Microsoft BI Applications - The How and The Why Bringing Business Intelligence knowledge to the .Net developer crowd has been something that I’ve been trying to do over the last year.  So, when Andrew Brust offered me an opportunity to work with him on a PDC pre-conference workshop with intent... 09-20-2009, 5:10 PM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie

• 	WCF, jQuery and WebForms Slides and Code I’m finally getting around to publishing my slides and code for my recent user group talks on using jQuery with WCF in ASP.Net WebForms.  The latest version is from my SoCal .Net Architecture talk.  You can also see my MessageBody WCF style... 04-22-2009, 12:47 PM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie Filed under: .Net Communities, WCF, WCFMsssageBody, jQuery

• 	The Tale of WCF, MessageContract, and JSON Yes, I know it had been a long time since I’ve blogged, and even longer since I’ve blogged any decent technical content. But I have a feeling that the drought is over, and a series of tech content is on the way ;) This is the tale of how I... 04-10-2009, 8:51 AM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie

• 	PDC 2008 Session Calendar Synchronization Tip If you are attending PDC 2008 , you may have noticed that on the Sessions page , if you log in, you can chose the sessions you are interested in attending, along with a link so you can add it to your favorite calendar program.  The only problem is... 10-24-2008, 7:35 AM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie Filed under: PDC, Tech Ramblings

• 	Just Say No to Console App Demos It is a major pet peeve of mine; presenters that use Console Application Projects to demo some non-UI code.  That’s so 1990’s.  So, what should a presenter use?  Well, Test Projects, of course!  It is something that I think should... 10-24-2008, 6:51 AM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie Filed under: .Net, PDC

• 	Static Code Analysis and Custom FxCop Rules for Enterprise ASP.Net Development Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis.  If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design, localization, performance, and security issues with... 06-18-2008, 6:40 PM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie Filed under: .Net, Open Source

• 	Cache Or Session State - Similar But Different This week at TechEd Microsoft announce the Velocity project , a distributed in-memory object caching system, which got folks like Dare and ScottW talking about using a distributed caching solution for boosting the performance of web sites. That got me... 06-06-2008, 3:32 PM by donxml to DonXml's All Things Techie