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I'm very pleased to see the direction the XML team took with the new Linq to XSD preview. Basically, it's xsd.exe, but generating classes on top of Linq to XML (or XLinq, XElement and friends). This is pretty cool, because it gives you all the power and productivity of a strong-typed object model, while still allowing for the freedom of manipulating the underlying untyped XML.

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My turn to jump on this blog-game via EdJez, Scott Hanselman and Pablo Galiano :)

Software factories is an elusive concept nowadays. In this article, I will try to help you understand which technologies can be used today to build production-quality factories and the reasons for the perceived inconsistency in the tools and the vision on Microsoft's part.

If you're looking to buy cool software, I urge you to read Jamie's blog about an ongoing charity auction which ends tomorrow. Start bidding and help lots of people too!

Just out of pure luck (was going to install RC2 on my wife's machine), I found out that PowerShell has gone GOLD!!!

PowerShell exposes some pretty cool features via XML files, such as custom formatting and type extensions.

The only problem I see right now is that those XML files have no namespace whatesoever. That may sound useless to you, but it's the very reason why you don't get ANY intellisense/validation support for those files from withing Visual Studio.

Vote for the suggestion before it's too late (if it's not already :((()