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May 2004 - Posts

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  XML Is Evil

  [via Joshua Allen [via Sean Palmer ]] – Thedor Holm Nelson explains why XML Is Evil If you strip away the rants from Ted’s post and get to the core, he is basically saying that when you use XML, it forces the developer to impose a hierarchy Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 8:25 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Problems With Precision On Conversion Of A Double To String

  Here’s a gotcha for you. If you are using a Double in .Net, and it has more than 15 digits of precision (A Double has a max of 17), and you try to convert it to a string (using the ToString() method), by default it will round it up to 15 digits Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:35 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net
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  W3C Compound Documents Workshop Position Papers Available

  The position papers for The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available for you viewing pleasure. I love this topic (rendering multi-namespace documents), but I can not attend this workshop, but I will be watching it closely. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:59 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG
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  N3UG – Encrypted Connection Strings Presentation

  Last night, at the North New Jersey .Net User Group ( N3UG ), I gave a presentation on my Encrypted Connection Strings project, which has been a GotDotNet user sample since last summer. It is a pretty simple project, which you will not need once Whidbey Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:01 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Pablo Fernicola on .Net Show

  Group Program Manager, Pablo Fernicola and Lead Program Manager David Ornstein, both from the Avalon team, are on the latest . Net Show so stop by and check it out. While I was at the MVP Summit I was able to finally meet Pablo, and one of my comments Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:34 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Longhorn Build 4074 SDK Now Available

  Ask , and you shall receive. The build 4074 SDK is now on the MSDN Universal Site. Thanks Chris and Dave . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More... Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 9:26 AM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Longhorn Build 4074 SDK Not Available Yet

  If you have downloaded build 4074 of Longhorn (via MSDN Universal) and want to get to work testing some of your previous code, you may have to wait a bit since the SDK isn’t available for download yet. If you did like me, and download the Developers Read More... Posted Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:26 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon)
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  Is Informatics Just the Study of the Declarative Language Called DNA?

  During my .Net Rocks show , I hit terminal verbosity while discussing some of my feelings on declarative languages, and mentioned that DNA was one of the most successful declarative languages ever. I’m not sure how/when I put those two dissimilar Read More... Posted Monday, May 03, 2004 12:05 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: XML