Sol 3

Arizona's Desert Code Camp is this Saturday (May 31st) at the University of Advanced Computing building.  Here's the address: University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road (map) Tempe, Arizona 85283 It looks like there are a lot of great talks scheduled covering everything from iPhone development to game development to ...

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) ASP.NET Routing Engine ...

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that leverage LINQ and new networking features in ...

A fellow emailed me earlier asking how to get the namespaces from an XML document, but he was having trouble because the XML had some XML declarations like <?foo?>. A System.Xml Way XPathDocument has two cool methods, GetNamespace(localName) and GetNamespaceInScope, but they need a currentNode to work with. string s = ...