Mark Fussell's WebLog

Distributed Life.

Win-Dev 2004 talks on XQuery in SQL Server and System.Xml V2.0

I am doing two talks at the Win-Dev 2004 Conference on the Web Services track and the Databases and...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/05/2004

The end comes swift

Our bearded dragon lizard died suddenly on Saturday. We had been caring for him plenty over the last...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/04/2004

Building Custom XmlResolvers Article on MSDN XML Developer Center

In between re-writing and updating the chapters for the beta version of the my book A First Look at...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/03/2004

Samurai Jack Episodes 49-52

For those connoisseurs of the greatest cartoon of all time living in the USA, the next four episodes...

Author: mfussell Date: 09/23/2004

TechEd 2004 XML Talk Slides

I have finally posted the slides and sample code for my TechEd 2004 talk on XML in the .NET...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/31/2004

Article on the XML Support in SQL Server 2005

I worked with Shankar to write this article on the XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 which...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/24/2004

TechEd USA 2004 Meeting Times

If you are at TechEd and want to talk about XML in .NET or SQL Server then these are some times that...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/24/2004

XSLT 2.0 Sir?

One questions that I am getting more frequently is “Will the next release of System.Xml V2.0...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/13/2004

XPathReader Article on MSDN

This is now been published on the MSDN XML developer center as I mentioned in an earlier post. A...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/12/2004

TechEd presence and a chance to get your opinions voiced.

I am attending both TechEd USA and TechEd Europe and presenting a couple of sessions. DAT379 is very...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/12/2004

Schema For DataSet Attributes

If you have spent anytime serializing the .NET System.Data.DataSet class structure to file then you...

Author: mfussell Date: 05/11/2004

XmlNameTable Revisited

After my post on the XmlNameTable: The Shiftstick of System.Xml I thought that I would follow it up...

Author: mfussell Date: 04/30/2004

Samurai Jack Heaven

I have just ordered Samurai Jack Season 1 DVD from the great virtual shop and seeing that this has a...

Author: mfussell Date: 04/28/2004

What's New in System.Xml for Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Release

This first in a series of articles by Mark Fussell details the improvements to the XML APIs in...

Author: mfussell Date: 04/28/2004

XmlNameTable: The Shiftstick of System.Xml

I spent much of today in a customer lab on performance in .NET applications covering best practices...

Author: mfussell Date: 04/28/2004

XML is like Cardboard

I had the opportunity to go and listen to Pat Helland perform his “Metropolis: Towards a...

Author: mfussell Date: 04/20/2004

XML Developer Center Lanches on MSDN

I have been silent on my blog for a while mainly due to getting an article written for the XML...

Author: mfussell Date: 03/30/2004

"We love the XPathReader" petition.

Oleg has been creating an implementation of a forward only XPath XmlReader which from a usability...

Author: mfussell Date: 02/27/2004

Patents and XML

There has been plenty of discussion recently on patents filed by Microsoft in the area of XML for...

Author: mfussell Date: 02/24/2004

XML Performance in System.Xml

There has been some discussion with the Webdata XML team about Sun's published performance report on...

Author: mfussell Date: 02/23/2004

DCOM to .NET Phase Transistion

Looks like William and I have had the same thoughts over the weeknend about clearing out books. I...

Author: mfussell Date: 02/20/2004

Indexing XML, XML ids and a better GetElementByID method on the XmlDocument class

One question that I get is “How can you index an XML document? If you had indexes, all your...

Author: mfussell Date: 02/12/2004

Not an iPod Sheep

Today I picked up my rash and purely impulsive Christmas buy, a Fossil Wrist.NET Smart watch. It was...

Author: mfussell Date: 01/14/2004

My Blog has moved

Everyone is being moved off https://www.gotdotnet.com so my blog has now moved to here to join...

Author: mfussell Date: 12/17/2003

Samurai Jack makes me want to fight

If you need some inspiration then how about listening to the theme tune to Samuari Jack.

Author: mfussell Date: 11/21/2003

Dan Wahlin does it again

The ever prolific Dan has written a great article on the XML data access support in "Whidbey"....

Author: mfussell Date: 11/21/2003

Data Access ROX. An article on the Data Access Support in "Whidbey"

I wrote this article on the Data Access Support in Visual Studio.NET code named...

Author: mfussell Date: 11/21/2003

Samurai Jack season continues

Cartoon Network are still rolling new episodes of Samurai Jack at 7:30 PT.  Episode XLIV...

Author: mfussell Date: 11/18/2003

Performance and XML

Now that .NET is moving from an application platform into the OS, performance if critical to...

Author: mfussell Date: 11/04/2003

Ode to the XML DOM

The XML DOM is dead. Long live the DOM. Dearest DOM, it is with little remorse, to see that your API...

Author: mfussell Date: 11/04/2003

XML Support in "Whidbey"

Now that I have finally made it back home and got through most of my mail, I thought I would give an...

Author: mfussell Date: 11/04/2003

Going to bed...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/24/2003

PDC acronym counting

Now that I have been offiically hyped ready for PDC at the speakers briefing, I declare the top...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/24/2003

XML article bemoaning.

I am not sure how some articles get published, it seems that they either have no reviews or the...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/24/2003

Do you want to bet? Future predictions on XML

I love reading through these long bets especially "At least one human alive in the year 2000...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/16/2003

MEMS and Hardware Specialization

In a few years most of our mobile devices will only need to be charged every six months and this...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/16/2003

XQuery BOF is ON

Christoph Schittko got his XQuery BOF approved for PDC! Excellent news. Now we can have a big...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/01/2003

ROX and Data Model Wars.

Dare has written a good section on Dealing with the Data Access Impedance Mismatch effectively...

Author: mfussell Date: 10/01/2003

"Whidbey" Publishers Summit

I talked about the XML support in VS.NET "Whidbey" at a publishers summit hosted here in Redmond...

Author: mfussell Date: 09/18/2003

My life's work

Alex Homer sent me a mail a couple of nights ago indicating that our book that we have been...

Author: mfussell Date: 09/16/2003

PDC forced me to do this

The PDC is now less than two months away and since system.xml has had a significant number of...

Author: mfussell Date: 09/02/2003

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