I’ve dealt with this before, but I’m bumping into it again so I figured I’d blog about it to vent a little… If you implement IXmlSerializable to customize the output of your type when it partakes in XML serialization, you can’t even decorate it with XmlRootAttribute. This basically means that if your type is the […]

.NET XML API pundit, Daniel Cazzulino, has brought to light a bug in the way the Whidbey version of the XmlSerializer works with respect to fixed attribute values. If you used fixed values and expect them to be emmitted correctly to the instance document, I suggest you go vote this bug up. That said, I think I […]

I just entered a suggestion for the Whidbey .NET Framework. It has to do with adding a Disposed event to the SqlDataReader. Every other major class (SqlConnection, SqlCommand, SqlDataAdapter, etc.) in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace has a this event, so why not SqlDataReader. My personal reason for having it is that I have a data access […]

Ok, so if you read this previous post, you’d know that I ran into a problem with ConfigXmlDocument not setting the BaseURI property making resolution of relative URIs within the document completely unpredictable and utterly useless. I really wanted it to work and knew there had to be a way, so I fgured out the […]

Here’s a missing piece of functionality that’s frustrating me right now: Basically, XmlDocument has a virtual property called BaseURI that subclasses can override to provide the base URI (go figure) from where the XmlDocument instance was loaded. In a normal XmlDocment, if you call the Load override specifying the “filename” parameter, it will set it’s BaseURI […]

Ok, this is pretty crazy. I’m on XPSP2 and I’ve entered a ServiceDomain with a ServiceConfig that requires transactions with an IsolationLevel of Serializable. Now, I’ve done this a million times before and it works no problem. In the specific scenario I’m dealing with now, I’m seeing something completely insane. I’ve constructed a SqlConnection and […]

Just passing on the word that VSTS should be available for download to MSDN subscribers starting tonight. I for one am super psyched to get my hands on these bits since I will finally have support for all the team based tasks I do on a daily basis baked right into my favorite development environment. Update: […]

Looks like it shouldn’t be too much longer before we can get our hands on a build of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. This is great news. Lots of people have been concerned that it wouldn’t receive the same level of testing before it is released since it hasn’t been part of previous community releases. […]

I was just doing my morning reading when I came across this post. I for one am really looking forward to this being baked right into VS. We’ve used ACT in the past, but Orcacoke seems like it’s really stepping it up in terms of features and integration. Like most people, I can’t wait to […]