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Announcing the NJ SQL Server User Group
It has been a long time coming, but NJ will finally see the return of a SQL Server User Group. I’ve been trying to get this group going for about a year now, and the biggest hang-ups has been trying to get a location, and finding volunteers to help run...
Posted: Nov 21 2005, 10:05 AM by DonXML
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XML Tools I’d Like To See Built For Visual Studio.Net
While at this year’s XMLDevCon I came up with 2 VS.Net add-ins that I’d wanted to write and release as open source for .Net. I was withholding the ideas figuring that I would find time to write them, but it has been a couple months and I haven’t even...
Posted: Dec 16 2004, 09:46 PM by DonXML
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Not the Way to Introduce XmlTextReader
Thom Robbins is a great guy, but unfortunately for him he has bumped into one of my major pet peeves, Viral Coding Examples with his Introducing the XmlTextReader post. It really isn’t his fault, since the code he uses is very similar to the code example...
Posted: Nov 29 2004, 09:59 PM by DonXML
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Viral Coding Examples in Presentations
Joe Fawcett (fellow XML MVP) came across a great example (from the Microsoft.Public.Xml newsgroup) of one of my biggest pet peeves, “We (the community) are doing a very poor job teaching the average developer how to use XML properly in .Net”. I want to...
Posted: Oct 21 2004, 05:49 PM by DonXML | with 1 comment(s)
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NJ Dev Dinner 9/14/2004 – Special Edition
Right after the N3UG meeting (with Dave Douglass’ presentation on Generics), we will have a special edition of the NJ Dev Dinner. What’s the occasion? Microsoft Developer Evangelist Kirk Allen Evans is coming up from Atlanta, GA, and will be in the area...
Posted: Sep 13 2004, 02:31 PM by DonXML
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A Suggestion for the Microsoft Careers Site
I was on the Microsoft Technical Recruiting Chat last night (I’m not really looking, just snooping around), when I remembered a comment made by either Zoë or Gretchen (I can’t remember who, or even find it) about making sure that your resume looked good...
Posted: Sep 01 2004, 10:43 AM by DonXML
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DataMapper Performance Statistics On VS2005 Beta 1 and SQL Server 2005 Beta2
I took the code from my previous DataMapper examples , which was written for .Net 1.1 and SQL2K, and ported it to VS2005 Beta 1 with SQL Server 2K5. I did not have to change one line of code in either the sprocs or in the 1.1 C# code (great going VS &...
Posted: Aug 09 2004, 11:15 AM by DonXML
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Revisiting XML DevCon 2003 – The Videos
It is hard to believe, but it has been just over one year since XML DevCon 2003 . Because most of the subject mater was pretty ahead of its time for the common enterprise developer, I’m sure most of the people that read this blog either didn’t...
Posted: Jul 14 2004, 11:49 AM by DonXML
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Performance Statistics of Various Implementations of the Data Mapper Pattern
What started off as a quick how-to example of rehydrating business objects from data access layers (in reply to this Jay Kimble post ) morph’d into a whole lot more (thanks to Scott Hansleman’s DataSet post , and my thoughts on the topic ...
Posted: Jun 28 2004, 09:01 AM by DonXML
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Saxon.Net?
This is via Kurt Cagle (the man needs to get a real blog, and post regularly): A new Open Source project has been started to port Michael Kay's Saxon 8.0 (and hence XSLT2 and XPath2 at a minimum) to C#, at http://www.x2x2x.org/x2x2x/home/ . Kurt is concerned...
Posted: Jun 18 2004, 09:40 AM by DonXML | with 2 comment(s)
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