XSLTO -- XSLT's in C#

This is cool enough to break me out of my non-blogging-funk: XSLTO -- XSLT-like processing using C#. That definitely seems neat. Found via Craig Andera.

[Listening to: Sarah McLachlan - Witness]

Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia

Joe Duffy is paranoid. And by the looks of his blog entry Throwing, catching, and a little bit of paranoia I might be a little more paranoid too, especially around security sensitive code.

In a nutshell, despite your best intentions a perfectly valid .NET app can get code between an exception in your method and your finally block. Yikes!

[Listening to: Eminem - Til Hell Freezes Over]

Accessibility Domains and you

Jeff Key of SnippetCompiler fame posts a nice overview of Accessibility Domains. I.e. just what code can has access to a given class/method/member given it's accessibility modifiers (private/internal/public).

[Listening to: Placebo - Black-Eyed]

Limiting Profiling to particular blocks of code

Richard Wurdack (a.k.a Angry Richard) gives a quick intro to the profiler api and the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Profiler namespace to help Limit the Data Crunch from Trace Profiling.

This might help to prevent drowning in trace data.

[Listening to: Limp Bizkit - Outro]

One hand washing the other - Clarke Scott

You never know when you're going to need a favour, so here goes nothing...

Clarke Scott is asking for help to market his CRM software application for SME businesses by increasing his Google rating.

More power to you.

[Listening to: Natalie Imbruglia - One More Addiction]

Customizing Quickwatch in VS.NET debugger for custom classes

I know, I know, it's been a while. I could spout off about being too busy or on vacation but basically I'm just too lazy. Anyhow, in the laziness vein, here's a post that I want to keep around in case I'm looking for it later:

Customizing Quickwatch in VS.NET debugger for custom classes. I remember this sort of feature from VS6 but since I could never remember what the file was...

[Listening to: Whitesnake - Still of the Night]

An ongoing Introduction to MSIL

Just stumbled across this excellent Introduction to MSIL by Kenny Kerr. It kinda' makes my brain hurt... but in a good way.

[Listening to: Static-X - Cold]

Your personality summarized in 26 links.

An intriguing meme found on KC Lemson's blog. lear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list. No cheating now...

A - http://www.adtmag.com/blogs/devcentral/ - Developer Central Blog.
B - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml - 20th Anniversary edition of the HitchHiker Adventure Game.
C - http://c3dsp.westjet.com/internet/sky/checkFlights.cgi - Checking flights on WestJet airlines.
D - http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/ - Picked up this link from some blog. Not into .NET CF so didn't subscribe.
E - http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/ibook.html - bad hardware workaround courtesy of TheDailyWTF.com.
F - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/03-2004/msg00545.html - Oracle news group.
G - http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/0017233&from=rss - /. post on Acclaim's auction.
H - http://www.hack.net/ - Got this from some blogs. Didn't work in Opera. Didn't really try either.
I - http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200412/df20041210.jpg - Cool Darth Santa comic.
J - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/survey.html - Trying to win a resharper license.
K - http://www.kk.org/cooltools/... - Cool Tools
L - http://www.latticesoft.com/Products/LatticeDataMapper.aspx - Persistance Framework for .NET
M - Corporate webmail.
N - http://www.networklifemag.com/ - Another link from another blog. Not subscribed.
O - http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/sightings/index.html - Duct Tape Rules!
P - http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2004/12/01/2598.aspx - Paul Vick's article on Black Hole projects.
Q - Nothing.
R - http://reviews.cnet.com/... - C|Net product alert page on the ultimate gaming PC.
S - http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/15/0226220&from=rss - /. article on LEGO logic gates.
T - http://tahiti.oracle.com/ - Still looking for Oracle info.
U - http://www.ultimateears.com/ - High end in-the-ear headphones.
V - http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=6099 - Way cool commercial from Toyota - Bugger!
W - http://www.westjet.com/ - Still looking for that flight too.
X - Nothing.
Y - Nothing.
Z - Nothing.

[Listening to: Enya - Athair Ar Neamh]

Cheapskate alert: Free XSLT1.0/XSLT2.0 and XQuery1.0 Processors for Windows

Altova has put together a collection of free tools for the Xml/Xslt/XQuery folks out there. Found via Oleg Tkachenko. WooHoo!

[Listening to: Disturbed - God of the Mind]

XmlPreCompiler / XmlSerializerPreCompiler

Like most people I have struggled too often with XmlSerializer. Mathew Nolton wrote a UI wrapper around Chris Sells'
XmlSerializerPreCompiler called XmlPreCompiler. This should help some.

[Listening to: Faster Pussycat - Slip of the Tongue]