June 2009 - Posts
Over this past weekend, the XSLT Timer tool has been released on Code Gallery. This is a very simple tool, that will simply allow you to type / paste in a document and an XSLT stylesheet, and then tell you how long it takes on average to do the transform
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There's a fascinating look at Microsoft's history, year-by-year, on Channel 9 . I hadn't looked at these before, but they're relatively short so you can view them whenver you have a break and come back later. Looking forward to more of these. Enjoy!
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I've written about performance tools in the past - it's a topic that interests me quite a bit, because I believe that perceived performance is a very fundamental part of the user experience and can wow you or frustrate you immensely. And I believe "real
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One other twist on the last slicing stylesheet . Let's say that we didn't want to hard-code the number of items in a group, but instead we wanted to be able to control this separately. We can use an xsl:param on the stylesheet to control this externally
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I spent a little bit of time with this the other day, and I thought I'd pass the learnings on, in hopes it helps someone. This is the layout what I was trying to accomplish with WPF. In a section of my window, I wanted a bit of text at the top, and then
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Aaron published an MSDN article on using Velocity that is very much worth checking out. Some of the highlights: Why and how to scale your applications. Deployment and configuration of Velocity. Data analysis and cache design. ASP.NET Session integration.
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This is something that I've been asked more than once, and so here goes an answer that might help if you run into this. Let's say that you create a new project and borrow code or do something of the sort, and suddenly start getting an error message such
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To continue on my previous example on slicing (I made the term up, by the way), today we'll do something a little different. Let's say that instead of just inserting the slice elements and a few items, we want to copy the whole tree n times (where n is
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I'm very, very pleased about today's announcement on LINQ to XSD being available on CodePlex . The functionality available should be esentially the same as what was released in the last Alpha Preview, so if you were already using this, it should be a
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First, let me start with a disclaimer: I'm not an XSLT guru. I know folks that can truly do amazing things with it. Every now and then, though, I can help someone, and I thought I'd share a solution I came up with recently. I'll be happy to see alternate
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One of my popular past entries is Working around invalid characters in XML . I don't know if folks actually search for this, but it's certainly something that I point them to when I want to help them understand the space a bit better. If you've downloaded
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