Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• XPathNavigatorReader: reading, validating and serializing! (XmlReader/XmlTextReader over XPathNavigator)

  Posted on April 19, 2004

  There are many reasons why developers don’t use the XPathDocument and XPathNavigator APIs and resort to XmlDocument instead. I outlined some of them with regards to querying functionality in my posts about how to take advantage of XPath expression precompilation, and How to get an XmlNodeList from an XPathNodeIterator (reloaded). [Read More]

• Early Microsoft evangelism

  Posted on April 13, 2004

  I don’t want her to take the path to the dark side, so I started evangelizing early… [Read More]

• High-performance XML (II'): Enhance XPath execution performance with XPathCache

  Posted on April 2, 2004

  Just about a month ago, most XVPs (XML MVPs) started the opensource Mvp.Xml project aimed at providing a single point of entry for all our efforts in advancing XML processing and APIs in .NET. By having a single project to look for, you can take advantage of the implementation of most stuff you read regularle though the MVPs weblogs, including this one. The code will contain references to the appropriate weblog posts whenever they’re available. [Read More]

• Do I need SAX for .NET? (or does straight Java ports to C# make sense?)

  Posted on March 29, 2004

  After reading Oleg’s post about an upcoming SAX.NET implementation, and while I still look forward to the other XML fellow developer working on that, I got certainly excited and run to download and have a look at it. I was dissapointed, I must say. [Read More]

• Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview is here

  Posted on March 26, 2004

  Just in case you didn’t hear it before. Note: you will have to drill down to the Developer Tools tree node to find it. It isn’t in the home as New Downloads yet… [Read More]

• Who failed to validate XML?

  Posted on March 24, 2004

  Today, you validate XML in .NET v1.x by creating an XmlValidatingReader, setting the schema, and reading: [Read More]

• </Lagash><Clarius>

  Posted on March 23, 2004

  For the past year I had the pleasure of working at Lagash Systems SA, a high-end consulting firm in Argentina, run buy really cool guys who created a company that is by far the best place you can work in Argentina right now. You won’t find Morts there, only Einsteins. It was really an excelent experience, working with clever people, doing interesting and advanced stuff, and sharing knowledge as I had never seen in other companies. I can honestly say that my initial expectations were easily surpassed. The company afforded a diving course (including the initiating trip to a “lake”!)... [Read More]

• Whidbey Provider Design Pattern pitfalls

  Posted on March 22, 2004

  A couple weeks ago Rob Howard (from the ASP.NET team) announced the “disclosure” of the Provider Design Pattern they are using in Whidbey ASP.NET (v2). [Read More]

• Typed XmlReaders: bridging the gap between streaming and object model APIs.

  Posted on March 12, 2004

  When dealing with XML in .NET, you’re mostly faced with two options: [Read More]

• Don't know what SHA1, DPAPI and Initialization Vector is? Crypto made simpe at last!

  Posted on March 11, 2004

  Hernan de Lahitte brings signing, encrypting and hashing to the masses with his Crypto for Everyone post. His work is not pet-project development. I worked with this guy in probably the biggest .NET project in Argentina, and he really knows what security means. The helpers he presents are fully tested, widely used in that project to perform many security-sensitive actions, and is really a time-saver for anyone (like myself) who just wants to call a method and get somebody else worry about the intricacies of cryptography. [Read More]

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