So I took a new job which has me writing C# code again, which is great! A lot of new developments have happened in ASP.NET land since I've been gone, such as MVC framework, ASP.NET 3.5, etc. However, I've been working to keep up with them and I'm excited about what the future holds. The last...
Everyone who pastes code into his or her blog has probably used it. If you haven't, then you have to check it out. It allows you to copy code into your blogpost almost instantly, and produces things like this: /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the name of the server. /// </summary> /// <value>...
Today I got this nice InvalidOperationException: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (11, 11657). ---> System.Xml.XmlException: The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength...
While on the subject of XML. I noticed an announcement on the Microsoft XML Team blog that MSXML4 is going to disappear within the next 12 months. It will mean that applications will no longer be able to create MSXML4 documents in the Internet Explorer browser. The team urges everyone to switch to MSXML6...
Exactly one month ago, I blogged about XML Notepad 2007 . XML Notepad 2007 is the replacement for the original XML Notepad that was written back in 1998! The XML team released an update to the tool yesterday, which you can download here . A full list of new features and bug fixes can be viewed here ...
It's been quiet for a long time, but I hope that I can find time to blog again. So here's one to get me started again. I bumped into an article on MSDN , written by Chris Lovett in August 2006, which describes the creation of XML Notepad 2007. Chris Lovett has been working on System.XML in C# since 1999...
Sometimes it happens (especially when writing application frameworks) that you need to write a piece of code that needs to perform something as generically as possible. Being the OO guys that we are we tend to work a lot with polymorphism to accomplish this. Unfortunatly, polymorphism and xml serialization...