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Petition To Get Chris Sells To Host Another SellsCon Before The End Of 2008

M. David Peterson kickstarted the process to get Chris Sells to host another SellsCon by creating a new Facebook group . I've got to say, the ALT.Net conference in Austin sort of reminded me of the spirit of a SellsCon (getting a bunch of bright passionate Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:38 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: XML

DNR TV and LINQ to XML

There has (finally) been some hype around VB 9's XML Literal stuff. Cory Smith noticed it, and yesterday, Scott Hanselman blogged about them . Last week I recorded a 2 part episode on LINQ to XML and VB's XML Literals for .Net Rocks TV (DNRTV), and Carl Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:08 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, LINQ, LINQ VBx

Party with Palermo: MVP Summit Edition

If you happen to be an MVP and attending the MVP Summit, or just happen to live in the Seatle area, Jeff Palermo has organized a little get-together Sunday night. All are welcome. Just leave a comment to let him know you will be attending. I'll be there, Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:02 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, LINQ

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for XML in 2007

Yesterday I received my Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (aka MVP) award email, and I must say that I am (still) very honored to receive this award (this is my 4th year). Some people may think that MVPs may just expect to get this award every year, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:48 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

Filed under: XML, .Net Communities

XPathmania Wins Visual Studio Extensibility Plug-in Contest (I'm Going To TechEd Barcelona)

A few months ago I entered XPathmania (the XPath enhancements to Visual Studio's XML Editor project) into the Visual Studio Extensibility Plug-in Contest , for the Managed Package Category. I didn't actually write it for the contest, but since Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:36 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

Filed under: XML, Community Events, XPathmania, VSX

XPath Queries In SharpDevelop 2.1

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, well then I'm very flattered. Matt Ward announced that SharpDevelop 2.1 now has support for running XPath on the currently active XML document, and it sure looks a lot like XPathmania . I hope I wrote Read More... Posted Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:50 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, XPathmania

Open Source Projects As A Form Of Community Service

Open source projects have been the talk of the tech blogs recently with the announcement that NDoc 2 is Offcially Dead , along with the mention that the project's sole develop was a victim of an automated mail-bomb attack because the project wasn't getting Read More... Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:04 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, Social Classifications & Searching

Intro to XPathmania - Extending Visual Studio 2005 to Support XPath Development

Something that has been on top of my list of improvements needed for XML in Visual Studio is better support for writing and testing XPath queries. Currently, the only way to write and test your XPath statements is to either create your own console or Read More... Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 10:46 AM by donxml | 31 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, XPathmania

TechEd Must See - ARCTLC14 Introducing the Service Factory

Day/Time: Wednesday, June 14 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Room: ARC Theater (Blue TLC Area) Day/Time: Friday, June 16 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Room: CON Theater 1 (Blue TLC Area) Speaker(s): Shy Cohen , Don Smith The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:45 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: XML, TechEd

TechEd 2006 Bound

Well, I’m off to TechEd today, and driving up with Miguel and Nick . Miguel wanted to get a bunch of the NJ and NYC folks together and drive up in a short yellow bus , but no one wanted to join him (and do you blame us?). I’ll be staying at Read More... Posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 9:52 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML

NJ Code Camp 2 - Preliminary Session List

I just published the most recent session list for NJ Code Camp 2. Some of the the regular NJ developer community speakers have asked for slots, but haven't submitted abstracts yet, so they are listed as TBD. With 6 confirmed sessions on Orcas timeframe Read More... Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 10:28 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, New Jersey Developer Community Events

Crazy Idea - Free Version of Microsoft Visual Studio With Advertisements?

Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More... Posted Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:29 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server

Microsoft Architect Connections - June 5th - 7th

I know it is a bad week for something like this (the week prior to TechEd), but if you are not going to TechEd, or you just can't pass up on a great FREE conference with Harry Pierson from Microsoft, David Sprott from CBDIForum, and Aaron Skonnard from Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:48 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML

Using REST To Implement JEST

REST – REpresentational State Transfer JEST – JErsey State Transfer http post : http://codebetter.com/blogs/sam.gentile/ <person> <name>Sam Gentile</name> <state>NJ</state> </person> http post : http://dotnettemplar.net/ Read More... Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 11:36 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

Filed under: .Net, XML

New Jersey Code Camp 2 - Call For Speakers

I announced this about a week ago on the NJ Code Camp site , but I’ll put it up here to help get the word out. The next New Jersey Code Camp will be held on Saturday, June 3rd at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ (the same place as the first one). Read More... Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:50 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, SQL Server, New Jersey Developer Community Events

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