I’ve done some reading (and posting) on the excellent ASP.NET forum and, by far it seems, the most frequent cause of the issues that people have with their code is making the distinction between server side and client side of a Web application. I am not exactly sure why. Maybe the problem stems from the […]
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Representing xsd:choice element in C#
The issue of correctly representing semantics of an xsd:choice element seemed like a good challenge, so I decided to tackle it. Per XML Schema reference, xsd:choice is a group element, which allows one and only one of the elements contained in the group to be present within the containing element. If you try to translate […]
Generating C# code from XSD
Steve Saxon had posted a few times on the XSD -> C# code generator that he’s building. Looks pretty cool. He also mentions that ideally some of the code should be generated as nested classes. It is true, some constructs such as “xsd:choice” are not easy to translate into an elegant C# equivalent. So, here’s […]
HTML, CSS and Other Curious Stuff That You May Find Hard-coded In Your Web Application
Design View Dude is asking interesting questions about composing HTML/CSS mark-up in the process of building a .NET Web application. Ok, I may be a little too radical on this, but IMHO the controls should emit as little HTML mark-up as possible. Ideally, none. I am puzzled at how such great concepts as XSLT and XML-driven rendering […]
Antarctica.uab.edu or why cobbler’s kids go barefoot
One of my more recent projects was the Antarctica.uab.edu Web site. Basically, it hosts online journals of a close-knit group of scientists at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who are currently pursuing biological research in Antarctica. Twice a week (or more often, if time permits), they connect to the Internet and update their journals, read comments, […]
The Cruelty of Unattainable Perfection
First, there was pristine perfection: a vision of a mark up language that was simple, intuitive, and made your online documents look reasonably pretty. Then… well, then everything went to hell in a hand basket. In a little over a decade, HTML became the clumsy, disfigured, and repulsive Frankenstein of a language that it is […]
First, Inaugural
Greetings! My name is Dimitri Glazkov. I work for Gandalf Development, Inc., in Estrada Web Technology division. Estrada is a content management system, which originated (with my help) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was later exclusively licensed by my company. My job is to define (and refine) the direction of the product and keep us in the […]
