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January 2004 - Posts

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  MVP Summit 2004 Hotel Choice

  For those that are interested, the NJ&NY MVPs are taking over the “W” Hotel for the MVP Summit 2004. You have been warned! :) DonXML Demsak Updated: We switched from the Westin to the “W” due to lack of HSIA. Share this post: Read More... Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 10:45 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Domain Model Examples For .Net

  Since I made the post on Migrating from Table Models to Domain Models via OCL I’ve had a couple people ask about examples using the Domain Model with .Net. The best book I’ve found on the subject of patterns and enterprise architecture is Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:14 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  North NJ .Net Meeting Featuring Deborah Kurata – Pre-Registration Required

  If you are planning to go to February’s N3UG meeting featuring Deborah Kurata , you will need to pre-register , so that the folks at SetFocus can get a better idea on how many people to expect. DonXML Demsak Share this post: email it! | bookmark Read More... Posted Friday, January 23, 2004 10:38 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Microsoft MVP in the area of XML

  I just found out that I’ve been designated a Microsoft MVP in the area of XML. This is great, and I’d like to thank everyone that has helped and supported me other the years (most of all my wife and kids for putting up with me), you’ve Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:38 AM by donxml | 32 Comments

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  Microsoft Dev Days 2004 – Secaucus, NJ – March 4th

  The Microsoft Dev Days 2004 is coming to New Jersey on Thursday, March 4th. For some unknown reason it advertised as Newark, but actually it is at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands in Secaucus. See the registration page for more location info. Am I going? Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:22 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

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  Migrating from Table Models to Domain Models via OCL

  I’ve been dwelling on this idea of trying to use some variation of the Object Constraint Language within .Net, and I think I’m finally at the point where I can try to discuss it in a coherent manner. OCL is used to describe the constraints Read More... Posted Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:39 PM by donxml | 17 Comments

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  Fumiaki Yoshimatsu’s Refactoring the XAML Analog Clock

  Fumiaki had a go at refactoring the XAML analog clock and tried to use a MVC design approach. He didn’t like that I was using 3 timelines, and came up with a pretty ingenious solution, something I didn’t think of. He switched the hands of Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:54 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Dottext.Web.HttpCompression

  Jeff Jullian created a .Text plugin so that you can combine Ben Lowery's HttpCompression and ScottW's .Text version 0.95 . What it will do for you is compress only the rss feeds, and not the other aspx pages, so you avoid the Server.Transfer issues that Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 7:15 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  New Jersey Longhorns?

  I’ve been thinking about starting up a small user group of developers dedicated to learning/using the new features of Longhorn, and have it based here in northern NJ. I don’t want it to be like most normal user groups, but keep it to a small Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:52 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  NYC .Net Meeting Thursday, Jan. 15th

  I’m going to the NYC .Net meeting (which I usually don’t do since it is quite a commute) on Thursday. Scott Hansleman (sponsored by INETA ) is presenting a session on the Zen and Art of Web Services (got to show support for my homies). I wonder Read More... Posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:40 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  IE Http Headers Tool

  Seeing that I just put a post up on Http Compression, I guess I should also let folks know about a really cool free IE add-in called ieHTTPHeaders written by Jonas Blunck. It makes it so much easier to see the HTTP headers for different pages, and is Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 6:52 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Now Using Http Compression

  Taking my cue from Dare and ScottW , I updated my .Text 0.95 install to now use Ben Lowery's HttpCompression Module . I downloaded the code, recompiled it for .Net 1.1, added the dlls to my bin directory, and updated my web.config file. It was very easy Read More... Posted Friday, January 09, 2004 6:30 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

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  Vector Graphics and Declarative Animation with Avalon – the Analog Clock

  I finally got the first of a series of articles on Avalon finished. The actual time to write the code was only about an hour, but the writing the article was the long and hard part. I step you thru the process of using vector graphics and declarative Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:54 PM by donxml | 8 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  OneNote For Blogging

  I’m sure others have thought of this, but OneNote would be an excellent tool for a blogging editor, except for the fact that the API isn’t public. I use OneNote all the time to jot done my blog entries, and then copy and paste them into the my site. I’d Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2004 6:57 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

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