May 2003 - Posts

28 May 2003
Wayne saves the day for my XML -> Excel parser
You need to build some experience to get really effective working with XML. I've struggeled with quirks and rarities the past days. Today Wayne Allen solved my final non-trivial problem with SelectSingleNode, XmlNamespaceManger and XPath. Who would beleive that default namespaces wasn't supported? It... Read More...
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25 May 2003
CMP & JDO Compared
It's always interesting checking out what they are doing on the other side of the fence. David Jordan and Craig Russel compares the two emerging persistence mechanisms on the java platform : Container Managed Persistence and Java Data Objects. The exerpt is found on O'Reilly . Read More...
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24 May 2003
Documentation of Microsoft sample apps
Any minute now I'll maybe get the time to really have a thurough look at Microsofts Windows forms sample app TaskVision . I would have had a pretty good idea about how it is built now though if they (Microsoft) would start using UML to document their samples. The guys at EMEA that are working on the... Read More...
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23 May 2003
Norwegian Characters Crashes the xslt Load()
It's not only Al Quaida (or whatever spelling that is) that have something against Norwegians these days. The System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform also dislikes norwegian stuff. Putting an Æ Ø or Å into a comment section of an xslt stylesheet causes the function to crash with the error message... Read More...
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22 May 2003
XslTransform doesn't write Xml Declaration with XmlDocument
Took quite some time to find out, but it seems as though the System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform.Transform method does not write the Xml Declaration when you pass it a System.Xml.XmlDocument. Given the following Xml input (simple.xml): < root > SomeData < root > And this xsl stylesheet (simple.xslt... Read More...
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20 May 2003
Singleton and Ingo's RemotingHelper
I have been using Ingo Rammer's RemotingHelper class for a while now. I'm not a big fan of a lot of statics in my apps so I rewrote it to a Singleton class based on microsofts suggestion for C# . The problem with this was that the constructor for the RemotingHelper class were run before RemotingConfiguration... Read More...
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16 May 2003
Remoting Typed Datasets - the tryouts
Andres stepped up quickly with some hints to my previous blogentry . I tried out the ADO.NET Powertoys which contained several features. Because it was poorly documented, and I just needed one of the features, I think I'll wait for a later release. I could have given DeKlarit a shot, but I simply like... Read More...
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15 May 2003
Typed Datasets and .NET Remoting
I didn't really like the DataSets too much. I felt they did too much. After having a discussion on strongly typed datasets with Roy Osherove a couple of weeks ago I decided to put my DataAccess framework with ValueObjects, DataAccessObjects and ServiceFactory/Locators on the shelf for a little while... Read More...
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05 May 2003
Aren't Typed Datasets XSD really Contracts?
Roy found the xsd tool recently and got the typed datasets to scale . I still don't like them. What is really the difference in beeing dependant on the xsd schema than a dll reference? If you do the Service Oriented approach on this problem you'll come down to what Clemens and Steve predicates these... Read More...
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