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March 2004 - CraigBlog
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Most of these places, DevelopMentor sent me: create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide
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Ian Griffiths asks a great question in the comments on my post about System.Xml 2.0 . Here it is: That's excellent! But I have one question: why can't I do this?: Book book = reader.ReadAsObject < Book > (); What's with all this casting, in a world...
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I was just reading this (via Aaron ), and saw this piece of code: if (reader.ReadToDescendant("book")) { do { Book book = (Book)(reader.ReadAsObject(typeof(Book))); ProcessBook (book) // Do some processing on the book object } while (reader.ReadToNextSibling...
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Tony Nassar proposes that we do a little get-together for those of us living in the DC area on Wednesday night, March 31st, starting at 6:30 at On The Border in the Tyson's Corner area. I think it's a fine idea! After all, we can't let the Denver and...
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As is pleasingly typical of when I have an issue with Microsoft, I got a response to my complaints about GotDotNet. And it was a very good one. Thanks Andy! I'm sure people will be pleased to hear you're aware of the issues and are working on the problems...
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Chris Sells suggested that I send my specific complaints about GotDotNet along to the people that work on the site, and kindly pointed me to the right person at Microsoft. This is something that I should have done before my last post, of course, but better...
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Dear Dot , I want you to know I'm leaving you. I'd love to use that old line, “It's not you, it's me,” but unfortunately, it's you. I just can't count on you. I can't even remember how many times I've asked you to check in, only to be disappointed...
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Brad Wilson has launched a new site - DotNetDevs . He's posted a few articles there, and plans to post more. Looks like it's going to be a pretty decent collection of material.
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I'm lucky enough to be getting paid to write stuff against Whidbey right now. Although the tooling leaves something to be desired, the APIs are pretty solid, and it's been interesting using the new stuff. Today, I came across a namespace that I think...
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I reported yesterday that the autogenerated web service proxies are pretty thoroughly broken when it comes to optimizing network roundtrips. That's still true, but the wonderful Ivan Towlson reminded me of a feature that is currently saving my bacon....
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[Update: Ivan helped me find a partial workaround. Details here .] I knew that my implementation of FwSync (my tool for uploading/downloading files from a FlexWiki instance for offline editing) was a little slow sometimes. I figured it was because the...
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I was just reading some piece of senseless anti-Microsoft ranting, and I realized that there are two words people could use to raise my estimation of them enormously. Let me illustrate. If you say, “Microsoft wants to lock us in to their proprietary...
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So, I had this problem. I'm writing an MDI application ( FlexWikiPad , if you're wondering), and I finally got around to implementing the feature that asks you to save your documents when you close the application. I figured it would be easy. And it was...
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Via Rory , I came across this interesting set of tutorials. They walk you through the process of designing and building a 2D game using Managed DirectX. The focus is on the construction of the game itself, rather than on the DirectX APIs, so I think it...
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David Weller suggested that since I'm into DirectX and Test-Driven Development (TDD), I should post about how (in my experience) the two mix. I've gotten far enough now on my game to have run into a few issues, so it seemed like a good time to share....
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