UPDATE: LINQ to XSD has now been released as open source.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… That’s not really the case, but it’s not far from it. In early 2007 I first read about the LINQ to XSD project which Microsoft (or rather, it’s xml team) was working on. I haven’t he ... Read more.
An interesting project that I’ve previously written about is the LINQ to XSD project. It’s not a LINQ Provider but it is a tool for generating code to work with XML files in a type safe manner (which will give you the power of LINQ to Objects with the type safe data objects).
Last time I wrote about the LINQ to XSD tool, I had received an answer to an e-mail query to the team. They said that they were looking at “ways to further the LINQ to XSD technology for its user community.” No ... Read more.
I'm very fond of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). MEF makes it very easy to create extendable and composable applications. At TechEd in Los Angeles this year Jason Olson held a presentation on opening up an application for extendability with MEF. During his session he presented a sample of a network status aware catalog, which seemed very easy to create and also felt as a very good example of a custom part catalog. Also, I haven't been able to ... Read more.
Earlier today I had another discussion() with a co-worker of mine. This discussion related to magic strings and potential ways to get rid of them. I have previously mentioned that I dislike magic strings, but I haven't mentioned why. Nor have I mentioned in which circumstances which I dislike seeing them.
There are cases where magic strings are pretty useful. An example of this is in communicating between different applications, where strings are more descriptive than using, for example, an integer. Thus, if I send a message from application A t ... Read more.