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Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:55 AM

Fixing explorer in Vista

One of the most annoying things I have found about Vista is the file explorer. It constantly changes the views of folders and way too often sets the columns in a folder as if the folder contains photos when it doesn't. To me that is really disappointing...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:20 PM

More on XML Namespaces in VB....

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about XML Namespace issues in VB: one in particular was to do with namespace declarations being repeated in the output X ML. In those cases we only looked at common namespaces for the entire document. However the example...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 8:26 PM

Don't "p" on your XAttributes..

If you programmatically add attributes with namespaces to an XElement, when the XElement is written out it will give each attribute a namespace prefix and then define a xmlns for that prefix. The way XElement does this is first it examines the namespaces...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:58 AM

XML namespace prefix 'xmlns' is not defined

When working with VB9 you may get this cryptic error : XML namespace prefix 'xmlns' is not defined If you are using only default namespaces you can fix this by including a definition for the xmlns as an Import statement or as an xmlns attribute...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:16 PM

Cleaning up your XML literal namespaces

If you use XML literals in your code, adding one to another: Dim e1 = <a:books></a:books> dim e2 = <a:book></a:book> e1.Add(e2) You will have the xmlns declaration repeated in each of the elements, when really it is only needed...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:15 AM

What a nasty compiler bug !!

Kathleen has posted about a real nasty bug in the VB 9 (VB 2008) compiler. And I mean nasty !! The compiler won't warn you, won't give an error of any sort.. it will just omit lines of code from your application ! Yep, it will compile as if nothing...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:22 PM

Bug in XML literals around the Imports keywords..

In VB9, there's a bug when using XML literals with any type member that is a protected keyword. For example, given the following psuedo types, Class Doc Public Property [Imports]() As List( Of DocImports) End Class Class DocImports Public Property...
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