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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...

This past Friday, Soma announced .NET Framework 3.0 . Customers are already asking things like "is C# 3.0 going to be in this? What about LINQ? How about WinFS?" Sorry, stuff like C# 3.0 (if that ends up being its name, I have no idea) and features like...

Don Browning emailed me asking about an Atlanta geek dinner, so here are the resulting details: Atlanta Geek Dinner When: Wednesday, June 16th, 6:00 pm Where: Houlihan's (4505 Ashford Dunwood Rd) Click to add this to your calendar.

Could it really, really be? "We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows Vista. "You know it. I know it. It's caused some impact. We're going to start countering...

Learn to specify the HTML string for a Windows Forms Web Browser control....

Gauge your readers and don't abuse your readership. Do not post your political views on a blog that your readers subscribe to receive technical information....

Scott Guthrie posted a great example of how to create a feed reader using LINQ to XML . Today, I see Tim Heuer's post on the JavaScriptSerializer type in .NET 3.5 . So, I thought I would mash them up and show how to use LINQ to implement Tim's idea of...

Several months ago, one of my customers asked me a fairly pointed question: how do you call web services from JavaScript? At least, that's what they asked me, but not really what they meant (I'll explain what their real question was in a subsequent post...

I started writing something about how cool Maverick is and how the struts implementation seems obvious yet unfamiliar to many .NET developers. Frankly, I could care less about technology right this moment. I have 2 dogs that are like my kids.  We have...

Some have already blogged about what a great night it was, so I thought I would add a pic to show some of the folks that were able to attend the WS-Sushi dinner during the MVP Summit. (Front row, L to R, kneeling) Drew Marsh , Daniel Cazzulino , Matt...

I am simply amazed at the JavaScript debugging with Visual Studio 2008. The really cool part is that it is able to debug the JavaScript from PHP and JSP pages just as easily as it can with ASP.NET. Think about it... you aren't debugging the server-side...

I just posted Part 1 of a series of SharePoint for Developers screencasts that show developers how to use the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 to build and deploy assets for SharePoint.  In this screencast, I focus mainly...

I got my new phone today, and it is just so cool. After 1 year at Microsoft, surrounded by people who have Smart Phones and PocketPC phones and being told by countless people, "Dude... you have got to get a real phone", I finally got one. I chose this...

Everyone in the Atlanta area has been asking for a repeat, so... The second Atlanta Geek Dinner will be held Monday, November 15 at 6:00 pm EST at El Azteca. Click here for directions. The last one was a blast , so get the word out! Update : the dinner...

I had joked about this at the PDC, and Benjamin points out the same . The use of the word “so“ at the beginning of sentences seems growingly pervasive within Microsoft. From the TechEd and PDC presenters to interactions with development teams...

An Update - 05/19/2004 Instead of looking at XSLT for removing namespaces, consider using a specialized System.Xml.XmlTextWriter to remove XML Namespaces . -ed. ASP.NET Security The Patterns and Practices Group introduced " Improving Web Application...

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...

Can't get to Vegas or Orlando? Have you heard about the Microsoft Web Experience events in Los Angeles and Denver ? Want to win an XBox 360 simply by cutting and pasting? Read on. These Web Experience events are about the technologies that Microsoft...

Going through a morning TwitterScan, I notice a lot of buzz around Opera's letter to the web community . I jumped over to that page to see what everyone was talking about, and then paused. I was shocked at what I was looking at. I think I was even...

I can't believe it happened. Georgia is number 4, and the number 1 and number 2 teams got beat. Let's see... #1 and #2 lose, that means #3 and #4 move up, becoming the new #1 and #2, right? Hmm... wait, this is the BCS, which is now subject to the...

I have seen this question several times lately... “How do I use XSLT to remove the namespace bindings and namespace prefixes from an input XML document?” While you can remove namespaces using XSLT , you have to consider the use case and...

I am amazed at how some of the guys from the Atlanta C# and Atlanta .NET User Groups always seem to talk about various events going on around ATL, mostly in free user groups. Here are a list of the Atlanta User Groups that I know about. If you know of...

This post will show how to host a Silverlight control in a SharePoint 2007 web part. This post uses Silverlight Beta 2, I will try to make sure to provide an update after Silverlight RTM's if required. 10/9/2008: [ Update: the VPC image download on mssharepointdeveloper...

This post shows how to implement FBA claims-based authentication for SharePoint 2010.  We will use the ASP.NET membership and role provider to authenticate users to our SharePoint 2010 site. Overview SharePoint 2007 introduced the ability to use...

This post will discuss what the SharePoint 2010 My Site Cleanup Timer Job is, what it does, and how to manage it.  If you need to implement your own cleanup process, this post will also provide building blocks for implementing your own solution to...