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Recently I had to deal with some XML supplied to a development group that wasn't the greatest in structure.  For one, there was inconsistent use of namespaces and each repeating element had the namespace duplicated. The goal was to retrieve from the XML various element values for a

If you’re running Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you're also a PowerCommands fan you might run into the issue that VS just crashes with no exception box and only the following error in the Application event log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution

One this is for sure, there's plenty of materials on getting ramped on the Microsoft stack. We now have up on the MSDN Ramp Up center tracks for SharePoint... Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx www.MyRampUp.com

If you're installing Visual Studio 2005 and need the WCF CTP Extensions, BUT you've already installed .NET 3.0 with service packs, the installer fails. To override the check use the following: msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1

Biff Gaut is continuing his tradition of mixing humor with some good technical content as he attends the PDC.  Over the past several PDC's, Biff has always been able to sprinkle his dry sense of humor into the mix of his daily reports on what he sees. Check

UPDATED: 8/6/2008 - Minor issue on Path I've built quite a few WSS / MOSS machines and one task that I always seem to do is create a simple CMD shell prompt on the desktop (quick launch, etc.) that gives me easy access to STSADM and has

Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks.  Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way is through the COM interfaces