Apparently .NET 2.0 does this out of the box but, I don’t get to play with it for awhile so…. Today I had the need to serialize some error messages in CDATA elements. Quickly, I realized that XmlSerializer doesn’t support this out of the box. After a really quick googlin’ session, I had my solution. And since I’m nice, I’ll share it with y’all. Say you have a class called ErrorMessage that has a string to be serialized: [Serializable] public class ErrorMessage...

So Visual Studio is finally catching up to the tools that I've been using for years. I can't really blame MS for only coming out with these features now. This is a huge company that doesn't release their products every 3 months. What I can do is be a little angry that while they did us a favor by integrating some things into the IDE, they just did it a little sub-par. Now, if anything I'm about to write is wrong, I'm sure some gracious soul will correct me and I'll give my appologies. Onto the meat...

To LLBLGen or not?I guess this is my introduction post. My name is Chris Martin (as you can see :)) and I'm a .NET developer with about 6 years experience in mostly Windows technology. I used to dabble in the *nix world a little bit. But, found it too exhausting. This is also my first attempt at blogging. I look forward to being a part of this comunity and hope that I can provide some help to you guys sometimes.Now...Onto the meat of this post.I'm going to use the new LLBLGen Pro on our next project....