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  NJ Code Camp 2 - Preliminary Session List

  I just published the most recent session list for NJ Code Camp 2. Some of the the regular NJ developer community speakers have asked for slots, but haven't submitted abstracts yet, so they are listed as TBD. With 6 confirmed sessions on Orcas timeframe Read More... Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 10:28 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, New Jersey Developer Community Events
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  New Jersey Code Camp 2 - Call For Speakers

  I announced this about a week ago on the NJ Code Camp site , but I’ll put it up here to help get the word out. The next New Jersey Code Camp will be held on Saturday, June 3rd at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ (the same place as the first one). Read More... Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:50 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Remix - Win a Trip To MIX06 - This Year's "Unplugged" Conference

  Microsoft conference (and marketing blunder) called MIX06 is giving away 3 free trips to what, in essence, is the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) with a different name . The contest is called Remix MIX and is essentially CSS Zen Garden -like Read More... Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 9:49 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, CSS
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  CSS Tutorial – Designing Without Tables and Not Lose Resizable, Custom Borders

  One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout . Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:47 PM by donxml | 7 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, Adobe Illustrator, CSS
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  XAML + XLinq + VB.Net's XML Literals Equals Classic ASP For WinForms?

  Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More... Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 4:24 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML, PDC
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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  A More Definitive XAML Definition

  Disclaimer: My name is Don Demsak, and I’m not a Microsoft employee. I am an independent consultant and a Microsoft MVP in the area of XML. Any information on a Microsoft technology contained in this post is publicly available and not covered under Read More... Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:54 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML
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  My Quotes in an eWeek Article

  eWeek has an article on Xamlon , and it contains a couple quotes from your truly. I would have preferred to be called an XML evangelist, rather than an XML expert, but it isn’t that big of a deal. Also, ‘domain logical” should be “domain Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:46 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Start the Hype Machine – I’m On .Net Rocks This Thursday

  Break out the good stuff, because I’ll be doing .Net Rocks this Thursday (April 29th), at their new time 10:00PM EDT to midnight, and I’m going to be live in the studios. I wonder if Carl has a kegerator in the studio (one like ChrisA mentioned Read More... Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 5:26 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML