Archive for September, 2009

Dude, I full on Swayze-d that mother

Posted: 16th September 2009 by marc in General
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It is sad that Patrick Swayze recently passed away due to pancreatic cancer.  I remember watching The Beast one time last year late at night.  It was the only time I ever watched it.  You could tell then that Swayze wasn’t in great shape, battling the cancer that eventually would take his life. 
So I [...]

Does CSharp Have a Debug.Print Method?

Posted: 3rd September 2009 by marc in Programming
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A common question in C# is "How can I output to the debug window?" when using Visual Studio.  Users accustom to Visual Basic trying a Debug.Print will quickly find out that it doesn’t seem to work when developing in CSharp.
Well, Debug.Print is specific to .NET, not just Visual Basic.  You can read about it [...]

Generate Classes from XML or REST with no XSD file

Posted: 1st September 2009 by marc in Programming
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So you want to generate classes for an XML API or REST Web Service, but there is no definition file.  What do you do? 
This is one quick method for generating object classes for XML APIs / REST Web Services when no definition file is available:
1) Get a full sample of the XML you wish to [...]