XSLT Intellisense and validation schema for VS 2003

The Seattle International Film Festival is going on right now and it's been playing some really interesting stuff. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get tickets for either Ghost in the Shell 2, or Hero. Oh well. However, there's an interesting movie being...

A few weeks back a developer asked me, “How can I allow users to select contacts from their address book on a web page?” After drilling into his initial question, I learned that he really wanted to add the same “Import Contacts”...

Local flavor story: Last night I got to see Captain Smartypants do a performance of their new CD Undercover . The entire performance was excellent. Amazing voices singing pieces that ranged from lough out load comedy (an acapella rendition of Sir Mix...

Joe did a great job with this presentation, and he's now posted his walkthrough . If you want to understand what's coming up in the next release, take a look.

Visual Studio Breakpoint Helper

I recently met a Program Manager who joined Microsoft late last year after working at InstallShield for a while. We got to talking about some of the difficulties involved in creating an MSI-based setup and the lack of solid, documented best practices...

The . NET Frameowrk Bootstrapper makes it easy (er) to distribute the framework as part of your application. (yes, that is the right post - look at the bottom).

I came across this on one of our internal aliases. Math.NET is a cool mathematical framework. It supports both arithmetic and symbolic operations.

So the Summer is finally here, almost. In a few weeks most people with kids will enter that phase of the year where summer vacations happens. Lots of people go away on vacation during this time. It becomes hard to schedule people for meetings, so conversations...

Chris has posted about the Applied XML Dev Con http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1383 and continues with discussions on topics to highlight: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1386 Looks like we...

There are couple of 22“ LCD displays available with stunning 3480x2400 resolution from IBM and Viewsonic . Apparently video cards are barely catching up, ATI requires two DVI cables to feed the beast and it seems like it has to render four 1920x1200...