Kirk Evans Blog

I am so happy for DJ Schockley. After playing 3 years as backup to David Green, it was really uncertain if any schools would pick up DJ Shockley in the 2006 draft. And considering that Marcus Vick has been working out in Atlanta with older brother Michael...

One of the promises of web services is that you can dynamically discover new services and invoke them. Without venturing into the debate of appropriate discovery and delivery mechanisms (UDDI, DISCO, WS-Discovery, WS-Transfer, WS-MetaDataExchange), we...

For those who attended the DevComm5 training and asked for the slides, Dunn Training has been gracious enough to put the content up on their site. http://www.dunntraining.com/DevComm5.htm Thanks again to Dunn Training for such a great set of...

Mobility Today reports that the Palm Treo 700w AKU2 is available for download: Something we have all been waiting for which is the Palm Treo 700w Updater 1.10 for Verizon Wireless which includes the following enhancements for your smartphone: ...

Jon Flanders has a concrete example of using WF and ASP.NET . This is one of the topics that I mention in presentations but gloss over without demo... using WF for ASP.NET page flow (think struts). Still not sure about the perf implication versus managing...

I like to write in my blog, but I hardly read other blogs anymore. In fact, I don't have an aggregator installed, and my History for Internet Explorer shows mainly MSDN and MSN searches. There are a few random website entries, likely from clicking on...

Wow... DevComm5 turned out huge! Microsoft partnered with Dunn Training to put on 5 1-day training events spanning 5 weeks of top-notch, quality training content... for free to attendees! There was a huge turnout for the ASP.NET and ADO.NET sessions...

This question came up twice this week, so I thought it warranted a quick post. If you want to retrieve a sorted list of nodes from an XmlDocument instance, there are a couple ways to do this. You can use XSLT, or you can write your own sorting algorithm...

Sean Gerety has been bitten by the WPF bug, and is doing some pretty cool stuff with XAML. Check out his PSP Background in XAML post, where he walks you through the thought process as well as the tools used while building the sample. Jit Ghosh (value...

I will be speaking at the Microsoft Security Summit this Thursday at the Cobb Galleria on "Microsoft eXtended: Microsoft’s Vision for Computing featuring IIS7, Vista, And IE7." This is going to be a great session, showing off the security features of...

Avoid returning XmlNode from a web service method at all costs. In this post, I show why you should avoid returning XmlNode in web services, and demonstrate how to use the IXmlSerializable interface in .NET 2.0 web services for high performance XML serialization....