Tag Archives: .net

Helping out on the Wrox forums

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Sam

Since I started working as the technical editor for the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 reference book I thought I’d try my hand at helping out on the Wrox Programmer to Programmer (P2P for short) forums. When I first started … Continue reading →

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Official ASP.NET MVC framework – CTP release in ‘next few weeks’

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Sam

News about the recently previewed Model-View-Controller framework for ASP.Net is that a first look Community Technology Preview is due out in a few weeks. It will form part of the ASP.Net Futures release, which is a product I had a … Continue reading →

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Top 10 things to know about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Sam

Top 10 things to know about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Daniel Moth (‘The Moth’) lists 10 very good reasons why I’m looking forward to Visual Studio 2008. The killer feature for me is still the fact that … Continue reading →

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Implementing extension methods to XSLT in .Net

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Sam

Most XSLT processors contain methods to call custom methods (known as extension methods) written in your favourite programming language. Java XSLT processors allow you to write them in Java, and the old MSXML processor allowed you to write the in … Continue reading →

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