Lies, Damn Lies & MSDN Documentation

The MSDN documentation for XmlDocument.LoadXml() states “This method does not do DTD or Schema validation. If you want validation to occur, use the Load method and pass it an XmlValidatingReader. See XmlDocument for an example of load-time validation”.  As it turns out, this is only a half-truth.
If you happen to be dealing with XHTML (or [...]

Posted at 2:27 am on April 4, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: ASP.NET, C# | Tagged: , , , | read on

When Conditional Formatting Simply Won’t Do

Excel has many neat features, Conditional Formatting being one of them. But one particularly irritating feature of Conditional Formatting is that you can only cater for a maximum of three possible states.
So, what do you do if, for example, you have a list of five possible strings that the user can enter, and you [...]

Posted at 5:36 pm on March 19, 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Excel, VBA | Tagged: , , , , , | read on

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