November 2008 Entries
Recently I had to deal with some XML supplied to a development group that wasn't the greatest in structure. For one, there was inconsistent use of namespaces and each repeating element had the namespace duplicated. The goal was to retrieve from the XML various element values for a business object. So, using LINQ to XML, there's some pretty neat ways to go about this. The most succinct that I came up with is below - of course it could be tiny bit more succinct in terms of not using locally scoped ......
If youre running Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and you're also a PowerCommands fan you might run into the issue that VS just crashes with no exception box and only the following error in the Application event log: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (000007FEF63D203F) (0) To correct, you need to have an assembly redirection put into the devenv.exe.config file (which .NET will use for configuration information while running in VS.. <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity ......
One this is for sure, there's plenty of materials on getting ramped on the Microsoft stack.
We now have up on the MSDN Ramp Up center tracks for SharePoint...
Check it out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx
www.MyRampUp.com