Next Generation Demo Software with VMware Player

I just spotted the new free VMware Player.  This is totally cool.  I can envision companies using VMWare Player to demo complete environments, like an ASP.NET & SQL Server Express application; just configure the virtual machine to have everything needed! This basically eliminates most potential configuration problems that could cause a vendor to loose a …

It’s Always Something (#1): Wrestling with System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform and the Document() function

It’s always something! At Xtras, we have a rather sophisticated email broadcast system that we developed internally. Our system uses a set of tables in our SQL Server database that models the type of email, who it should go to, the mailing lists, etc. It loads each newsletter subscriber’s name and email address using a FOR XML …