Author: Charles Chen

Combating Namespace Bloat With .Net XML Serialization

Combating Namespace Bloat With .Net XML Serialization

Anyone who has used the .Net XmlSerializers have surely encountered the dreaded namespace bloat which makes the serialized objects grow to ridiculous sizes. There’s a nice little article over at TopXML on how to deal with this bloat. If you’re...

Taxes…ARGH!

So I filed my taxes pretty early this year (this is the first time I’ve ever owed taxes) using TurboTax.  At the end of the submission, I was given an option to pay with a credit card, direct debit, or...

Oh My…

Oh My…

My goodness… Via WindingRoad.com.  I am sooo looking forward to NYIAS this year.

You Know It’s A Slow Newsday When…

You Know It’s A Slow Newsday When…

You know it’s a slow newsday when the AP decides to run a story on how they didn’t run stories on Paris Hilton. AP: We ignored Paris Hilton NEW YORK (AP) — So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was...

WF Passivation Services Issues

WF Passivation Services Issues

If you’re expecting the WF (Windows Workflow) passivation services to work out of the box, well, you’re half right.  From one of my workflows, I’ve been able to trap that an error was being thrown at some point during execution, but...

Ouch!

Ouch!

That’s gotta hurt: Windows Vista is Windows ME Part 2. It took five years to develop because three of those were spent building a brand new code base that didn’t work at all and wound up getting scrapped, and the...

Thoughts on Sprint PCS

Thoughts on Sprint PCS

This post is completely off topic, but I feel like I have to get it out there for people who are just sick of looking at $$$$ cell phone bills.  If you think about it, a family of four will...

Setting Links in Word Programmatically

Setting Links in Word Programmatically

Since I didn’t find anything on this topic via Google… Just a quick “how to” on setting links in Microsoft Word programmatically (in this case, C#):

The code is wrapped in a function call I’m using for testing. The key...

Revisiting Spring.Net

Revisiting Spring.Net

Spring.Net is an application framework which has its roots in the Spring Framework for Java. Now first of all, I know many developers have an averse reaction to the use of the phrase “application framework” and immediately reject such things...