Don Xml's Grok This

I don't think I mentioned it, but I'll be speaking at TechEd, which is a first for me.  I'll be doing a talk on Visual Studio Extensibility: DEV345 - Extending Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with Managed Packages and the Visual Studio Managed Package Framework Monday, June 4 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Visual Studio 2005 (VS 2005) provides you with ...

As I mentioned in one of my TechEd Barcelona posts, I bumped into Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell, and Stephen Forte at lunch, and as I started to go into how I wound up at TechEd Barcelona, Richard made an executive decsion, and decided that they should record the conversation for a future .Net Rocks episode.  Well, it is now part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...