Summary CTX (Class to Xml) tool is a very simple tool which provides you a code editing environment in C# and VB.NET, compiles the source codes and lets you see the Xml output of all serializable types once successfully compiled. Intro Do you use Xml Serialization in .NET – if yes, you might be interested in this tool! Have you ever thought "Hmm…now that I have written a serializable class, I wonder how will it look when it is Xml Serialized"? If yes, you are in good company :). Sometime back I was

I used to paint portraits in oil when I was kid. For different reasons, I had not been able to maintain them as a result of which they have aged a lot :(. The last time I went home, I took close up snapshots of my works with my Canon PowerShot A510 , and now I am repairing them with Photoshop :). Check out the initial stages of the "repair" (extracted the subjects and set the background to 0,0,0) below:

Problem You want to serialize a type; however it: implements IDictionary , or derives from DictionaryBase , contains a member which implements IDictionary or derives from DictionaryBase , which causes XmlSerializer to throw an exception: "System.NotSupportedException: The type X is not supported because it implements IDictionary". Solution Override XmlSerialization by making the type implement the System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable class. Define how you want the object to be serialized in

Now that http://msmvps.com runs on CS (thanks a lot to Susan and team!), I will be cross posting for a while - here and at http://rakeshrajan.com/blog/ . Also, since some of the readers complain that the LuxLegend skin I am using isn't really attractive (maybe because it's pretty dark), I have set the skin here to LuxLegend - light :)

Friends, now that I have bought my own little niche in the web world, I have decided to shift this blog to this cool new place . It runs on Community Server with LuxLegend as the skin. Please update your links. For your convenience, I have duplicated these posts at the new blog. However note that I haven’t copied comments or trackbacks. Please refer to this for the same. Wish you a great time out there!

Check it out here: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DelegatesNEventsInternals.asp

A few more hours, and I will be on board the first flight of my trip to Redmond for attending the Global MVP Summit. It's quite wonderful to know that within a few hours I will be meeting people I have only “seen” at newsgroups. Hope the journey will go on fine. Updates after I come back on October 5th. See ya!

This is something that comes up frequently. Check out the below link I wrote a long long time ago. Hope it has some helpful information. Please drop me a mail if you have questions. http://t-mug.org/certification.aspx

Just published this here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555436

Just published this here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555396 Interestingly, I had stumbled upon this while answering this post: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.general&mid=ff9719e6-3829-4122-8b23-565087e9b1a4&sloc=en-us