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Montreal .NET double header

Just Rambling

Although I mentioned before that Guy Barrette lured me to speak at GUVSM (Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montreal) where I will get a chance to test out my WSE2 Security for Dummies talk in October (Mon. 10/4) … I just agreed to stay overnight and speak at The Montreal Microsoft .NET Architecture Group (GUMSNET) the very next night. The GUMSNET group will be my “test audience” for another of my ASP.NET Connections talks: “What’s New in the .NET 2.0 Base Class Libraries for ASP.NET Developers“. This will be a spin-off of the more generalized BCL Whidbey talk I have done a few times already. The deck for that one, by the way, is here on my website.

Sam’s new website – a little Feng Shui goes a long way

Community Cheerleading

I’ll leave all the “wow, awesome content” comments to the others, because what else would we expect from Sam but great content, anyway? Suffice it to say, he has been busy and this looks to be a great centralized resource. However, I would like to add that Sam Gentile’s new portal (DotNetNuke based) is also really pretty. It’s not often that a geek’s own website is well as pleasant to the eye as it is enticing to the brain!

I’m also happy to see that Sam (as well as some other Boston folks, such as Chris Pels and Robert Hurlbut) is speaking at Code Camp II. I’ve been flaky about committing (sorry Thom) because I have a bit of a conflict with that weekend.

BCL brain exercise

Just Rambling

Kit George has a little brain teaser revolving around static/shared methods in a class. If you are not familiar with the static (C/C#/J/C++/etc) or shared (VB) scope, don’t just skip this. Read it, think about it. Google some of the keywords. Google some of the key words in the comment that Richard Blewett left. I promise you will learn something new and valuable.

ch-ching – one more acer c100 purchase and some answers for Kent

Tablet

Kent Tengels just got an Acer C100. I wonder if I influenced that one? 🙂

Kent, to answer your 3 questions:

… SDK1.7  is not supported with the whidbey beta… and I haven’t tried it yet to see what happens

…you can persist the ink data and stuff it into your database. Then rehydrate it at a later time.

…. all the lonestar goodies should be right there in front of you if you have SP2. Like this one!

Have fun!!

 

Christian Weyer answers my quandry about iXMLSerializable in .NET 2.0

ADO.NET 2

While digging into some ADO.Net 2.0 a few weeks ago, I found that iXMLSerializable, previously (or is that currently) hidden in .NET 1.x and used for datasets has now been exposed so that we can leverage it. I had been “victimized” (I say that tongue-in-cheek) by accepting the magic of my datasets being transformed into XML by web services to send over the wire. But now I didn’t want to just believe in the magic, I want to know how this works!

Christian Weyer has explained iXMLSerializable in much more depth and also acknowledges that there was a little joke among the web services gurus:

Well, to tell it with a little joke, some people tend to call it ISupportDataSet and not IXmlSerializable. This is because until version 2.0 of the .NET Framework this interface was used solely by the System.Data.DataSet type and some checks for this type had been hard coded in one or the other tools. So, let’s forget about those old days, IXmlSerializable has never been supported officially then, but now it is.

WSE2 for dummies

Tools

I’m going to be doing a lot of work in WSE2 over the next few months …so if you are like me and think this stuff is just for plumbers like Michele L.B. or Christian Weyer or Bristowe, etc., you can witness a normal person actually understanding and heck, even USING WSE2. Because that is part of the point of wse 2.0. Not only does it embrace the latest WS Specs, but they have added an entire layer of functionality to make this stuff accessible to a lot more developers.

I created a carrot for myself to force myself to do this — which is one of my presentations at ASP.NET Connections: “WSE2.0 for Dummies“. And of course the reward will be that I am going to really do some rockin’ stuff to my clients’ application.

—here is an interesting article I found when trying to sort out where the ws-* stuff fits in with the OASIS standards…old news to many, completely uninteresting to others :-), but info that I saw and set aside for “later“ without really absorbing…well “later” is now…