DonXML BlogThe East Coast DonNot the Way to Introduce XmlTextReader- November 30, 2004 Thom Robbins is a great guy, but unfortunately for him he has bumped into one of my major pet peeves, Viral Coding Examples with his Introducing the XmlTextReader post. It really isnt his fault, since the code he uses is very similar to the code example in the XmlTextReader.Read() documentation, and I complained about that code to the System.Xml team at the MVP Summit. I did promise to write something up on it, and Thoms post finally got me to do it (it has been months since I.http://weblogs.asp.net/donxml/archive/2004/11/29/272025.aspx Alternate User Group Meeting Arrangements- November 16, 2004 Ive been trying (with help from ScottW and the local MS DEs) to start up a new user group in NJ, but Ive run into a couple problems, the most important is the lack of a standard meeting date that does not intrude on the pre-existing user groups. The problem is a good one to have, since it means that the developer community is of sufficient size to support more focused user groups (rather than the typical general purpose groups). But by focusing the user group on one topic, it also...http://weblogs.asp.net/donxml/archive/2004/11/15/257947.aspx |