.NET provides a whole slew of utilities for serializing objects into an XML form. But as I wrote in my previous post, .NET Compact Framework has serious problems with this serialization. The good news is that you can leverage all of the existing Attributes and tricks that you think should ...

XML Serialization in the .NET Compact Framework seems to be buggy enough that it is generally not useful if you need to serialize a class that conforms to a schema of some sort. If all you need to do is serialize and deserialize representations of a class you are probably ...

WordPress 2.1 I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress today. Version 2.1.1 was released a couple of days ago. It's a small bugfix release for the new WordPress 2.1 series. It has added some nice new features including the periodic autosaving of posts as you write them. One of the ...

I've written previously about using MSBuild With Nunit as well as a bit of a Manifesto on Relentless Build Automation. I believe that automating the build and deployment process is a necessary step to ensure the reliable delivery of quality software. Release Management One of the things that we as software ...

I posted previously on a Bug in the .NET Compact Framework with the XmlEnum Attribute with whitespace in the name. Well I've run into some other interesting "features". The first thing to realize is that the things that work on the Full framework don't work on the Compact Framework. What Works With ...

Ok, so I've decided I need to rant a little bit about .NET. This ends up in part being, "What I like about Java that I don't like about C#". I think this is fair though. It's not like C# and .NET were developed in a vacuum. It's not like ...