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News.com tells us that Yahoo will start testing RSS support in MyYahoo. This report says that a public test date has not been set yet, but this much is clear. With Microsoft's release of the new MSN portal late last week, they completely missed the RSS boat. Not even the efforts of Robert Scoble were enough to convince MSN that they needed RSS support. Now, any addition of RSS to MyMSN will look like a “MeToo” feature.

In this new era, is very important the easy understanding of data transfer. For this reason Devshock developed the XmlConverter tool that hides the complexity of the serialization and deserialization of objects.
Xml serialization and deserialization is a very useful tool of the .NET framework that permit us the creation of any kind of objects, convert it to XML (Extensible Markup Language) for the easy manipulation, but in some cases is complex to use.
Now forget of complex translations and just say "Convert this object to XML" or "Convert this XML to this Object"... sound easy no?
Use it too for load configuration from files

Assembly Properties

• Written fully in C#, 100% manage code.
• XML conversion from String and StringBuilder source
• Easy conversion of objects
• All functions are static (Shared in Visual Basic), so don't need to make a new instance of the XmlConvert
• Support thousands of conversions in seconds
• Very useful for data transfer in Server/Client applications
• Convert any type of objects including images

[DevShock.com]

This is the first I've heard about it.... MSNBC.com

Geez. You know, forget the fact that Microsoft was able to fit an FM radio antenna and hardware, and advanced LCD display, and an UltraCompact .NET Framework onto a watch, Gary Krakow's biggest beef is that he thinks the watch models are ugly. Gosh dude, if that's your only beef, then I think we have a real winner here. I bet if you took the word “Sunnto” off the front and replaced it with “Rolex” he would probably think it wasn't so ugly. Personally, I like Sunnto's Copper/Slate look. I think it would go well with most any attire.

For any of you that run your own web server, VeriSign's Intermediate certificate expired today. Many people need to upgrade their intermediate certs.... if that's you, then check this out.

OH MY GOSH. I have been waiting for this product for ages. Taskline 2.0 is available for Outlook 2003, and it adds stuff to the MS Outlook task list that MS should have added in Outlook 2000. I won't talk about it too much, save for the fact that I ponied up the $50 on sight, as it will save me countless hours on managing my time (I'm pretty sure that tasks show up on your PocketPC too, as appointments, but I have yet to verify this.). Instead, I'm going to let three screenshots speak for themselves:

Dino Esposito talks about another reason why building a Scrollable DataGrid isn't all it's cracked up to be. You would never think such a simple concept could be so complicated, and yet it is. That's HTML for ya. I'll have to have Andy check and see if ScrollingGrid suffers from the same problem. It sure is nice having someone work for you that's smarter than you are, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

In my last article, I talked about managing your source code when you deal with different versions of the Framework. Well, while great in theory, this technique sucked in practice. Here's why.