Don Xml's Grok This

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 just release the first part.  For the first episode, I cover querying XML ...

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, along with the usual suspects.  Just check out the list of ...

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 it in a style that was easy to adapt to use in SharpDevelop, and I'm glad to see ...

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 a .Net 2.0 version out fast enough for their liking.  Kevin has decided to withdraw ...

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 Window application, create a test XSLT (using the XSLT debugger), or worse, put break points ...

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 the Marriott Copley Plaza most of the week (staying at the Hilton Logan, tonight, ...

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 technologies (with at least a few more abstracts to come), this event definitely ...

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 on.  If I knew Microsoft was working on things like this, it would be covered ...

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 Pluralsight, you just might want to check this out: Microsoft Architect Connections event in ...

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