Don Xml's Grok This

So, you are a .Net developer, and you gone and built some services for your enterprise applications.  You’ve spent the time building and deploying the services. You might have written them using ASP.Net, or you went all out and built them “the right way” with WCF.  But for some reason, you are not seeing the return on investment.  ...

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 be added to Scott Hanselman’s 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation (it sort of fits ...

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 your .Net code.  But, for most of us, that's where things stopped, playing with a cool ...

I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms.  By Saturday night, my brain was pretty much on extreme overload.  One of the things I've been doing a lot of over the ...

I'll be at the first ALT.Net Conference in Austin this weekend.  I'll be getting in around 12:30PM Friday and staying at the conference hotel, Holiday Inn Austin NW.  I was hoping to have my new transformation framework built on .Net 3.5 ready to demo, but, it isn't ready, yet.  I'll bounce some ideas off the conference ...

OK, this is one that gets me every time I switch back to Visual Basic from C#, and is one of the times that I find C# much easier to work with.  Even with all the XML Literal goodness in Visual Basic 9, these types of things make me want to just code in C#. When you try to implement 2 different interfaces that have the same member name, but ...

INETA recently announced that they are adding 15 new members to the INETA Speakers Bureau, and there are 3 New Jersey locals on that list.  Joining Miguel Castro and Sam Gentile (who moved to NJ last year) are Nick Landry (he lives in NJ now), J. Ambrose Little (also recently moved to NJ), and yours truly.  I'd like to ...

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 ...

I case you haven't heard, Scott Hanselman recently announced that he is joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in DevDiv, and Jesse Liberty joined Microsoft at the beginning of the month as a Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight group. Sometimes, I feel as though I'm one of the ''Last of the Mohicans''.  But in reality, it is ...

If you are a developer that specializes in Sharepoint (2003 or 2007), or Biztalk (2004, 2006, 2006R2), and lives in the New Jersey, New York City, Conn. area, I'm putting together an informal ''Job Syndicate''.  Basically, a loose network of individuals that will share information about open employee and consulting ...