Kirk Evans Blog

My previous entry noted that SQLXML 3.0 SP2 Beta 1 is posted, but I have not been successful in getting it to work with Windows 2003 Server yet.  For anyone else having difficulty, Bryant Likes posted the steps to make SQLXML work on Windows 2003 Server...

New Technologies OK, that gets the geeks reading this one.  Really, I am not working with new technologies, but rather integrating .NET with some fairly old technologies.  I am doing a lot of work with marshalling between COM and .NET.  OK, maybe that...

SQLXML 3.0 SP2 Beta 1 is available for download .  It seems that the "catasrophic failure" issue I had when parsing large updategrams is fixed.

My ASPAlliance article, " CS201 - Programming Fundamentals, Part 1 : A Simple Linked List, and Algorithm Efficiency ", is up on ASPAlliance.com, and I have already gotten some great feedback. I LOVE this article! In his first article on ASPAlliance...

I have seen a couple posts asking how to process the errors caused by the ValidateRequest feature in ASP.NET 1.1.  People want to know how to trap the error within a single page and do something with it rather than let the error bubble up to the Application_OnError...

We went to a liquor store to buy a present for a friend's birthday as well as a gift for the hostess.  We bought a nice French Cots du Rhone (Louis Bernard for any wine snobs reading this) for the gift, and decided upon a Firestone Merlot for the hostess...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post about binding, any object that supports IEnumerable can be used as the DataSource for data binding in ASP.NET.  If you are processing XML, the XmlDocument class does not support IEnumerable (after all, it is a tree...

Remind yourself of why July 4th, 2003 is a great day in Anytown, USA. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

In a stunning display of infielder prowess and magnificent pitching... OK, I can't say that with a straight face.  The Braves lost 20-1 .

I know there are controls out there that accomplish this same task, but I couldn't help but roll my own just to say "I did it."  This example shows how to dynamically create thumbnail images using the System.Drawing namespace in .NET, and how to use those...