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June 2005 - Posts

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  NJ Dev Dinner – Wednesday June 22nd

  If you happen to be in NJ, and want to hang out at a cool brewpub with some fellow developers, you are welcome to stop by The Harvest Moon Brewery , New Brunswick on Wed. June 22nd. I’ll be getting in around 6PM, and should be there for at least Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:44 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Schema Validation of a XmlDocument In .Net 1.1

  Validating a XmlDocument using a schema in .Net 1.1 is not as easy as it should be (but it is fixed in System.Xml 2.0). XmlDocuments are really meant for updating Xml using the Document Object Model, but for some reason WSE and ASMX likes to return XmlDocuments, Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:26 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Preferred Hotel for the PDC - Wilshire Grand

  TechEd 2005 is over, and now is the time to start thinking about PDC05 , which will be held in Los Angeles , September 13 th -16 th . The PDC has been in the same location the last 2 times (2001 and 2003), and my favorite hotel is the Wilshire Grand. Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:32 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML, PDC
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  TechEd 2005 – Hits and Misses

  It’s the Sunday after TechEd 2005, and I finally recovered enough to sit down and write up the DonXml TechEd 2005 Hits and Misses. Hit – The Cabanas. Hands down, my favorite part of TechEd is the cabanas. The sessions are good, but I’d Read More... Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 3:35 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, SQL Server, TechEd
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  TechEd Hidden Gem Sessions

  Sessions by Don Box, Kimberly Tripp, and Scott Hansleman, and the like, are always guaranteed to draw a crowd (and rock), but lesser know people can have great sessions too. So, I’d like to take some time and point out what I refer to as “hidden Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 1:27 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server, TechEd
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  My Virtual 3rd Place Becomes Reality for a Week

  3rd Place - "Social condensers" -- the place where citizens of a community or neighborhood meet to develop friendships, discuss issues, and interact with others -- have always been an important way in which the community developed and retained cohesion Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 10:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server, TechEd
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  Database Geek of the Week

  I was recently interviewed by Doug Reilly for Simple Talk “The journal for Microsoft technology developers and DBAs” ‘s Geek of the Week feature and it just went live . Melissa (aka the wife, who is a OLAP and development DBA) wasn’t Read More... Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 10:12 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Question – XSLT and XML Schema – Resource File or Code

  I briefly touched on this subject a while back, but it has recently come up again. Should we treat XSLT and XML Schema (and others, maybe XQuery) as just resource files, or are there cases where it would be better to treat them as first class .Net languages? Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:43 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, XML