December 16, 2004

What's wrong with XslTransform's API?

I wonder if is there is something inherently wrong with XslTransform's class API? I was stunned again today reading this post in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup: I still don't see any way to create a XslTransform from a XmlDocument? That's not the first time I see it actually. The answer of course ...

On Introduction to MSIL by Kenny Kerr

Kenny Kerr has posted another instalment in his amazing "Introduction to MSIL" blog series. It's about brilliant for-each construct, which was introduced by Visual Basic and now adopted by VB.NET, C#, C++ and even Java. Worth reading. Besides I very like that idea of learning from blogs - you know ...

On XmlPreprocess tool

That guy Loren Halvorson has relased XmlPreprocess tool for preprocessing XML files, e.g. config files in .NET. It allows to perform the following tricks: <configuration> <system.web> <!-- ifdef ${production} --> <!-- <compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="false"/> --> <!-- else --> <compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true"/> <!-- endif --> </system.web> </configuration> As you can see ...