VS>NET is a great set of tools - however, sometimes it's not all that you need. In those cases - VS.NET is a great platform to build tools on top of and you can extend it to do a ton of different things.

There's a great webcast coming up on May 3rd presented by my good buddy DonXML... Don Demsak, AKA DonXML, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for XML and a Microsoft .NET solutions architect who specializes in architecting and programming multi-tier applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework. He is also a technology evangelist known for advocating the benefits of XML, Contract-First Web Services, and the .NET Framework through blogging and various Web discussion groups. Don is a cofounder of the Mvp.Xml open-source project (www.mvpxml.org) that enhances XML capabilities in the .NET Framework. The Mvp.Xml project includes XPathmania, which adds XPath testing support to the XML Editor in Visual Studio 2005.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:02:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Chris Kotsis, one of the long time supporters and current Marketing Chair of GANG (Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group - the L and the U are silent... ), is giving a talk on the VS.NET 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (AKA DataDude). He's worked with Randy Pagel to put together the content and such. If you have not seen DataDude, you should definitly come check it out. Even if you have seen it, I know that Chris will bring his own unique perspective to the table and show you things that you probably haven't seen before.

Link to Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG) > Meetings ( DNN 2.1.2 )

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:41:03 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

 Some of you know me and know that I'm really interested in VSTO (that's Visual Studio Tools for Office) and that I've got a serious XML background having taught the XML Bootcamp for a number of years...

I've been following the Office Open XML standard for a while now but I just saw that Ecma is going to adopt the standard. Novell and Corel have already jumped on board to support this in Open Office. This is cool stuff...

Link to Press release 9 December 2005 - Ecma International creates TC45 to standardize Office Open XML File Formats

Friday, December 08, 2006 7:14:10 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]