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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available for download (all three editions - Pro, Premium and Ultimate) and I ask you to install it, give a try and more importantly - try your real projects o...
From dozens of cool PDC 2008 videos there are two I obviously like the most: Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET by Jim Hugunin The CLR has great support for dynamic languages like Iro...
Jim Deville of Microsoft IronRuby team has started blogging. If you are interested in IronRuby, definitely subscribe.
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IronRuby is coming! Expected to be released this year Microsoft's IronRuby is quite a unique project. Fully open sourced, GPL-based license, hosted at Rubyforge, accepting external contributions. Yes,...
Here is a small quick release. IronXSLT v0.3. New in this version: IronXSLT installer turns on dynamic XSLT Intellisense Improved compatibility with Visual Studio 2008
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A very little known fact is that Visual Studio 2008 does support real XSLT intellisense - not a static XSLT schema-based one, but real dynamic intellisense enabling autocompletion of template names, m...
We are working on yet another language migration tool and faced once again Java source code generation problem. Unfortunately Java doesn't have anything similar to .NET's CodeDOM, so we had to build o...
Inspired by ioccc.org, just for fun, really. Can you figure out what this stylesheet outputs (without running it of course)? <!DOCTYPE p [
<!ENTITY _0_ 'string'>
<!ENTITY _0-0_ 'sub&am...
Microsoft XML Tools team has released XSLT profiler addin for Visual Studio 2008. I've heard about this tool and even did a little testing long time ago (apparently it's very hard to release anything ...
When you create new XSLT stylesheet in Visual Studio via project (Add/New Item) or globally (File/New/File aka Ctrl+N), you start with template content. This template is changing in every new Visual S...
State of the art of XSLT testing in a simple succinct format by Tony Graham. Creating a working stylesheet may seem like an end in itself, but once its written you may want it to run faster or you m...
The Library of Congress has launched an interesting pilot project with Flickr, which can be characterized as a crowdsourcing experiment. They have uploaded 3115 copyright-free photos from two of the m...
This book looks like one of the best Ruby on Rails book I've seen so far. It's probably more an introductionary one, but seems pretty solid. Hey Amazon marks it as [ILLUSTRATED] book :)
Anyw...
Here goes nxslt3.exe/NxsltTask v3.0. It's nxslt tool for .Net 3.5. It can do everything nxslt2/NxsltTask v2.3 can plus the ability to run compiled XSLT stylesheets.
Now short documentation about runni...
I updated nxsltc - XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5 tool one more time. I added /version:<x.x.x.x> and /keyfile:<file> options. Former is used to specify resulting DLL version and latter - to s...
I also updated nxsltc.exe (well, just rebuilt it using Visual Studio 2008 Beta2). nXSLTC is an experimental XSLT to MSIL compiler for the forthcoming .NET 3.5. nXSLTC compiles one or more XSLT stylesh...
What's the probability of having two car accidents in one month? It must be high enough. Just a month after the first one some asshole hit me and run away. I wonder if it's a bad luck or act...
Jon Lam announced the very first pre-alpha drop of IronRuby - Microsoft open source (!) implementation of the Ruby language, licensed under Microsoft Permissive License. This release contai...
It's known that .NET XSLT engine - XslCompiledTransform natively supports two EXSLT extension functions - exsl:node-set() and exsl:object-type(). Not that it's widely known (msdn still ...
John Lam ported Textmate's Vibrant Ink theme to Visual Studio. Get it here. Awesome. Note that toolbar buttons are nowhere to be seen. I noticed that while I'm only barely use toolbar, it s...
Victor Garcia Aprea, the guy behind VSSDK Assist writes about his experience and vision of extending Visual Studio. My Love / Hate relationship with Visual Studio: Visual Studio is a tool I love...
Craig Skibo of Microsoft writes about new thing they announced recently - Visual Studio Shell. What the hell is that? Marketing description is unreadable: A streamlined Visual Studio development e...
I found this gem in David Carlisle's blog. Smart Javascript trick allows to mask msxsl:node-set() extension function as exsl:node-set() and so you can easily write crossbrowser XSLT stylesheets u...
Yes, I'm trying to change the way you work with XSLT in Microsoft Visual Studio. It must be a pleasure to develop and rocket fast at runtime. Yes, Visual Studio already supports editing, running and ...
Mark Miller announced Refactor! for ASP.NET v2.2 - free code refactoring tool from Developer Express. It includes 29 refactorings, including 10 ASP.NET related ones and is available for...
To be continued...
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David Carlisle and Jeni Tennison are blogging. Skies are falling. Enough said. Subscribed.
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I mean pre-XProc XSLT pipeline - just when you need to transform an XML document by a sequence of XSLT stylesheets - output from the first transformation goes as input to the second one and ...
In ASP.NET when you building a server control that includes an HTTP handler you have this problem - the HTTP handler has to be registered in Web.config. That means it's not enough that your custo...
Well, I missed MVP Summit this year, so while fellow MVPs enjoying together in Redmond I'm playing with C# 3.0 at home. And I'm in the process of Ruby learning, so what I spotted immediately is the l...
After years wasted in XHTML and XForms development and before WHATWG totally taking over HTML, W3C woke up and restarted their HTML activity. Just about time. Yes, believe it or not, but af...
Hot, hot, hot! Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) is available for download. This is the first mostly feature complete Vi...
Microsoft decided to shut down GotDotNet site by July 2007. The official announcement goes like this: Microsoft will be phasing out the GotDotNet site by July 2007. Microsoft will phase out all Got...
Kzu, being also one of the Mvp.Xml project users has this wild feature request. He wants to reverse XInclude resolving back. The scenario is simple: you load XML document A.xml containing XML Inc...
openxml.biz announced the availability of the OpenXML Writer - open source text editor for creating OpenXML WordprocessingML files (.docx). Supported features include "text formatting options like b...
I was writing about loading XSLT stylesheets embedded into assemblies (dll or exe) recently and Richard Quinn asked this very legitimate question: But why oh why would anyone embed their XSLT i...
Everybody knows that XSLT stylesheet can be embedded into an assembly by setting in Visual Studio its "BuildAction" property to "Embedded Resource". Such stylesheet then can be loaded using Assemb...
I just uploaded nxslt v2.1 release. In addition to the nxslt.exe command line tool it now also includes nxslt task implementation for NAnt and MSBuild.
The whole story......
Better late than never - forthcoming Java 6 (currently Release Candidate) will include StAX, pull based streaming XML API. .NET has pull based XML parser (XmlReader) from the very beginning...
I completely forgot that I still have one Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium Subscription gift card to give away. And it expires 12/31! Oh boy, what do I do now??? So ...
Just couple of months after XML Notepad 2006 release Microsoft ships another version, now called XML Notepad 2007. They even went and edited the article "XML Notepad 2006 Design"...
Reporting errors in XSLT stylesheets is a task that almost nobody gets done right. Including me - error reporting in nxslt sucks in a big way. Probably that's because I'm just lazy bastard. But a...
W3C presented Planet Mobile Web site aggregating multiple blogs that discuss Mobile Web. It's hosted by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. Really interesting reading. Subscribed. I skimmed some pos...
Remember that catchy RubyCLR motto? Now C# (Anders Hejlsberg) is playing catch up talking about automatic properties: public string Bar { get; set; }Above is meant to be translated by a compile...
When working with XPath be it in XSLT or C# or Javascript, apostrophes and quotes in string literals is the most annoying thing that drives people crazy. Classical example is selections like "foo[bar...
.NET's XmlReader is a great XML parser, but it has one big flaw in its API: XmlReader doesn't expose attribute types. XML actually defines 8 attribute types: CDATA, ID, IDREF, IDREFS, ENTITY, ENTITIES...
Ward Cunningham: "Wiki is the original Web 2.0 application." Read the Ward Cunningham talking on "Wikis, Patterns, Mashups and More". Interestng one....
SPI Dynamics has published a whitepaper "Ajax Security Dangers": While Ajax can greatly improve the usability of a Web application, it can alsocreate several opportunities for possible attack if th...
XML processing is changing. In Java SAX slowly but steadily goes away or at least goes into low level and nowadays Java with StAX is not so different from .NET XmlReader. I found it pretty interesting...
Microsoft, BEA, IBM, Cisco, Intel , HP etc mix XML Schema, Schematron and XPointer to create a draft of
the Service Modeling Language (SML) used to model complex IT services and systems, including the...
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