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