Dev Blog - Johan Danforth

I've started to read up on the new stuff in .NET 2.0 to prepare myself for the PDC, especially the ASP.NET stuff, and I must say that so far the most useful thing I've looked at is Master Pages. I've used the Wilson Master Pages in previous versions of ASP.NET and it has helped us much, but now in 2.0 with the intergration with the IDE it's just plain beautiful.

I think the Master Pages feature will be used in a majority of the web sites out there in the future, don't you think?

Bobby Wolf has a good summary of what's happening with the different Web Services packages in the Java world. He writes about packages like JAX-WS and JAX-RPC and where he thinks things are turning to. A nice list of links there as well -> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=392&entry=83694&ca=drs-bl

I need your help. I'm going to the PDC and I need to read up on various .NET 2.0 stuff before going there, to get most out of it. ASP.NET and Web Services/Interop is my main focus, so if someone out there knows of a really good book to read, please comment. I got a few books that I've read already, like the "A First Look at ASP.NET v2.0" by Homer/Sussman/Howard, but I'm sure there are more updated ones.

Thanks!

I did my registration to the PDC today, it will be so interesting and fun going there. There will be so many cool tracks and session, it'll be a tough time figuring out which ones to attend to. When I get back I'll have to do some "awareness sessions" for my mates at work, but I don't mind at all doing that.

It seems there will be lots of Swedish people going over the pond this time, so LA watch out :) The last time I was at the PDC I didn't get any chance to see anything of LA except for the Convention Center and the hotel. This time I'll try to go there a day or so ahead. 

I needed to generate an XML document that showed all directories and html files in a certain folder and the folders below that. This is what I quickly wipped up:

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

namespace MenuBuilder

{

           /// <summary>

           /// Summary description for MenuBuilder.

           /// </summary>

           public class MenuBuilder

           {

                      public static void Main(string[] args)

                      {

                                 Console.WriteLine("Starting...");

                                 XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

                                 doc.LoadXml("<directory>" +

                                            "</directory>");

                                 //recurse through directories and return XmlNodes

                                 XmlElement elem = GetData(@"c:\temp", doc);

                                 doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elem);

                                 doc.Save(@"c:\temp\dir.xml");

                      }

                      private static XmlElement GetData(string dirName, XmlDocument doc)

                      {

                                 //create a new node for this directory

                                 XmlElement elem = doc.CreateElement("dir");

                                 DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(dirName);

                                 elem.SetAttribute("name",di.Name);

                                 foreach (DirectoryInfo dinf in di.GetDirectories())

                                 {

                                            //Recursively call the directory with all underlying dirs and files

                                            XmlElement elemDir = GetData(dirName + "\\" + dinf.Name, doc);

                                            elem.AppendChild(elemDir);

                                 }

                                 //Append the files in this directory to the current xml node

                                 foreach (FileInfo finf in di.GetFiles("*.htm*"))

                                 {

                                            XmlElement elemDir = doc.CreateElement("file");

                                            elemDir.SetAttribute("name",finf.Name);

                                            elem.AppendChild(elemDir);

                                 }

                                 return elem;

                      }

           }

}