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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 folks into one local for a couple days of deep dives and alcohol).  I'm not sure ...

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 ...

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, but I've got to say that most of the MVPs I know still worry about it at renewal ...

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 XPatnmania was open source, and seemed like a pretty good project (that could use some ...

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 ...

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 forms of guidance that have been build with the primary goal of ...

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, ...