October 2008 - To .NET

Announced: LiveID will support OpenID

October 27, 2008 __Sander Visual Studio

Here, sitting in a session from Kim Cameron, he just mentioned that LiveID will support OpenID. So, if you use OpenID to access sites and services, you can re-use your LiveID to log in. Applause in the room.

Airport security check

October 26, 2008 __Sander Visual Studio

On my way to the PDC in Los Angeles, I get the usual drill at the security check at Schiphol airport. “Where are you going?”. – Los Angeles. “Why?” – Well, I’m attending a conference on software development. “Why do you[…]

LINQ to XML instead of XPath

October 6, 2008 __Sander .NET

Working on a new project, I needed to read some elements from an XML file. As a matter of habit, I used XPath, but later I figured this was a good opportunity to try it out using LINQ. So here[…]