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Reading XML by Palermo4

Don’t miss Dare’s new post on the different flavors for reading XML. I am looking forward to his article on the XPathReader to be posted at the XML Developer Center in the near future.
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Getting into shape by Palermo4

Last week I was teaching a VB.NET class at Interface , and a student in the class took my classic illustration of abstraction and polymorphism to the next level. I always like using ‘shape’ as an abstract example, where ‘draw’...
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Using XPath on HTML by Palermo4

Just read another post by Dare with the XML team at Microsoft. My big question: Does this require the underlying HTML to actually be XHTML?
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Of things data and XML... by Palermo4

Recently, Scott Cate and I began architecting enhancements to kbAlertz and other sites. I can see so much potential for XML technologies in every layer of the application. I am looking forward to the new XML features in SQL Server 2005, such as the XML...
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OOP? by Palermo4

I always find it interesting to share OOP concepts with developers that are brand new to the concepts. Recently, after explaining how to achieve polymorphism through classes and interfaces, a student in one of my classes literally shouted out: “Using...
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This week, VB.NET by Palermo4

From Seattle to Phoenix to Albuquerque... Tomorrow I am training a group of 16 people on how to use VB.NET. I did not choose to fly to Albuquerque. I drove the distance. As a result, at about the half-way point (Holbrook, AZ) I stop for gasoline and guess...
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So, the MVP Summit 2004 by Palermo4

So what can I say? Everything was under NDA. So I did walk away from this experience with at least one public comment/question... Has anyone else observed that most Microsoft employees begin sentences with the word “so”? Must have rubbed off...
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