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January 2008 - Developer Support

New job with Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem

January 24, 2008 Jan 24, 2008 01/24/08
Andrew Arnott
I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team.  Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10".  I don't actually make the transition for a few more weeks, so I look forward to several more posts on NetCF topics before leaving...

Using the XmlSerializer as an XmlObjectSerializer with WCF

January 18, 2008 Jan 18, 2008 01/18/08
Andrew Arnott
The Windows Communication Foundation introduced the new DataContractSerializer to replace the XmlSerializer in many scenarios.  The DataContractSerializer is faster than the XmlSerializer, but has certain limitations.  For example it does not support serializing an object's members as XML attributes.  When you write a WCF client that calls ...