Looking back it seems like complete lunacy.  For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html.  The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone back and fixed them.  Along the way I built a small utility for doing this and I ...

Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work   Putting it to work   So, using this code, you could embed in your Feature receiver a web.config file that looks like the aforementioned fragment.  Read in ...

Part 1 - The ProblemPart 2 - Take this for example...Part 3 - Time for some codePart 4 - Why doesn't this work?Part 5 - The RemedyPart 6 - Putting it to work The Remedy  Ok, so now the Name property is only an XPath expression if it’s a child node.  Then what do we do with sections that have attributes?  They must be child nodes, and so created ...

Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work   Why doesn't this work?   My code would step through this XML, and at each node generate a new SPWebConfigModification.  The <location ...

Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work   Time for some code   I wrote some recursive code to load an xml document and from that document generate SPWebConfigModification objects.  Basically, you ...

Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work   Take this for example...   You write a feature to be installed and you make web.config modifications that include adding a section.  Later, that feature ...

Part 1 - The Problem Part 2 - Take this for example... Part 3 - Time for some code Part 4 - Why doesn't this work? Part 5 - The Remedy Part 6 - Putting it to work   The Problem   I've read a lot of posts [this, this, and this, for example] about the SPWebConfigModification beast and I've had a lot of time developing a ...

I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process of creating a Custom Serializer should be useful to any .NET ...