I have finally posted the slides and sample code for my TechEd 2004 talk on XML in the .NET framework. The samples require a copy of Visual Studio 2005 (i.e. the community drop distributed at TechEd) in order to compile and run.

( Disclaimer: the following is in process and subject to change. The author, nor Microsoft, makes no guarantees nor warrantys on the content of this post ) One of the features we intended to put into VFP 9 was AppState, a _SCREEN property that would...

India, world's largest democracy, just recently successfully completed the general election for its parliament. For the first time in its history, India has successfully used EVM (Electronic Voting Machines) for the polls in all the constituencies. ...

I had the pleasure of meeting Kate Gregory in person down in San Diego. She's written an interesting blog posting today commenting on upcoming language changes to Visual C++: What do the language changes really mean for C++ people? Friday morning...

With Windows CE .NET 4.2 I worked on a sample XML Web Service written in native code (an ATL/COM object written in eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0) - once the ATL/COM object was complete I needed a way to generate the WSDL/WSML files - the Windows CE product...

Last year included a ton of travel, with the Windows Embedded Essentials (India, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, San Jose, Boston, and Germany), as well as other events, customer visits etc... When travelling I like to catch up on some of my skunk...

Last week I gave a presentation at Microsoft DevDays 2004 in Lisbon on Test-Driven Development. A day later I got this interesting question: "(...) if I'm testing a DLL assembly that uses a .config file to read in data, when I run the tests, NUnit...

Most people would have used the const keyword while doing C# development, but I had never heard of the readonly keyword before. Well, this weekend I had a friend point out this keyword and the first usage that came to mind was constructor-based dependency...

We frequently get asked why you cannot unload an assembly from an app domain. After all, you can do a FreeLibrary() in unmanaged code to unload a DLL, and the CLR is just using DLL's right? Reasons to Want to Unload There are generally two reasons...

I now have CEWSDLGen for Windows CE 5.0 up and running, this integrates nicely with the new Windows CE 5.0 build system - initially I didn't like the change from the 4.2 CEC format to the new 5.0 'sources only' build system - I thought it was neat that...

I get this question a lot, and I explain many of the same things that Paul goes through in this post, so I'd love it if more people would read this material: The "native" .NET language? In the comments on my post on language choice , Patrick asked “isn...

It has been a long time since I have written a component that sends email. In the .NET world, sending email has been made very easy and all the objects are defind under the System.Web.Mail namespace. System.Web.Mail is a simple wrapper for the COM objects...