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Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista » My Digital Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/03

When you try to delete an EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic partion, some options fail:

  1. DiskMgmt.msc does not show the “delete” option
    (the link is for Windows XP, but the – usually very useful – tool has been almost the same for ages)
  2. DiskPart.exe fails with “Cannot delete a protected partition without the force protected parameter set“
  3. The free partition managers I tried (Partition Assistant 2.0 Home Edition and EASEUS Partition Master) refuse to install on the x64 editions of Windows (x64 is used more and more at home these days)

Luckily, this thread discusses both problems, and points to this page for a solution with DiskPart.

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Posted in CommandLine, Development, Power User, Software Development | 6 Comments »

.NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded – update

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/15

Last week, I posted a C# implementation of the tee filter from Sterling W. “Chip” Camden.

Since then I have modified it slightly.
Not because the implementation is bad, but because some pieces of software play dirty when saving their redirected output.

One of those applications is SubInAcl, otherwise a great tool for showing and modifying ACL and Ownership information of Windows NT objects (files, registry entries, etc).

However, when redirecing output or piping it, it writes a zero byte after each byte of text.
I’m not sure why: it might try to face some Unicode output, or just be buggy.

The new sourcecode is below. You can also download the project and binary as tee.C#.7z (you need the freeware 7zip compression tool to decompress this).
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Posted in .NET, ASCII, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

*nix – Mastering the VI editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/13

Every once in a while I need to do some text editing in a *nix environment that has a minimum toolset installed.

Which means: use VI.

VI is a versatile text editor from the early *nix days, but it is not straight forward to use.
Since I don’t use VI often enough, I tend to forget some of the commands.

Time to share my favourite VI link: Mastering the VI editor edit: link rot, now it is at Mastering the VI editor.

The link points to the basic stuff, but the page contains most of what you ever want to know about VI.

–jeroen

PS:
If possible, I install the JOE text editor on systems where I am admin.
JOE uses WordStar like key bindings, and supports UTF-8. Talking about “something old, something new” :-)

Posted in *nix, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, vi | 1 Comment »

Stopping percentage expansion in a Windows batch file

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/09

A while ago, I asked a question on percentage expansion in batch-files on superuser.com: a great site with great answers, similar to stackoverflow.com and serverfault.com , but now for asking “Power User” kind of questions.

The percentage sign (%) in URL‘s is to escape (or  URLencode) characters that should not be in a URL itself.
(Note that the old new thing had a very interesting article on URL encoding: there are many different opinions on how to to this ‘right’, and a few of these ‘right’ opinions are not always compatible with each other).

In Windows batch-files and the command-line, the percentage sign is used to expand environment variables, arguments and for loop indexes.
To make life ‘easier’, inside a batch-file, the percentage sign has a slightly different meaning than on the command-line itself.

This can break your batch-files when you use URL encoded parameters.
It does not matter if these parameters are quoted or not: cmd.exe expands them, unless you escape them properly.

So, the command for downloading the URL with wget (similar to curl) differs from running it on the plain command-line or in a batch-file.

Escaping percentage in batch-files

So the best way to escape percentages in batch files is to double them: each % becomes %%.
There is even a very old (MS-DOS era!) knowledge base article about this topic, that I just found when doing the research for this blog article :-)

URL decode

As a sidenote: manually decode thesed escaped URL’s is always a pain.
There are many sites that can do URL decoding on-line.

PS: This was the original question: How can I stop percentage expansion in a batch file? – Super User.

Posted in *nix, Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, URL Encoding, wget | 3 Comments »

.NET/C# – TEE filter that also runs on Windows (XP) Embedded

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/07

The usage of tee - image courtesey of Wikipedia

The tee command stems from a *nix background.
It is a command-line filter that allows you to deviate a stream from the regular stdout/stdin redirected pipeline into a file.

Recently, I needed this in a Windows Embedded Stadard (a.k.a. WES) system for logging purposes.
This way, a post-install-script (similar to the Windows Post-Install Wizard, but command-line based) could log to both the console and a log-file at the same time.

WES is the successor Windows XP Embedded (a.k.a. XPe), which is a modularized version of Windows XP.
Se WES usually means that you don’t have the luxury of everything that Windows XP has.
This in turn means that you need to be careful when selecting external tools: a lot of stuff that works on plain Windows XP won’t work.

There are various Win32 ports of tee available.
This time however, I needed a Unicode implementation, so I searched for a .NET based implementation.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 does contain a tee implementation, but:

  1. We don’t have the luxury of having PowerShell in our WES image
  2. PowerShell tee first writes the contents to e temporary file, which interferes with how we build this WES image.

Luckily Sterling W. “Chip” Camden started with such a .NET implementation of tee – in Visual C++ – back in 2005.
Though his TEE page indicates it is based on .NET 1.1, his current implementation is done in Visual Studio 2008 using C++.

Now that is a problem for the targeted WES image: that image is based on .NET 2.0.
But when using Visual C++ in .NET, you need additional run-time libraries (for instance the ones for Visual C++ 2005, or the ones for Visual C++ 2008).

If you don’t have these installed, tee.exe does not start, and you get error messages like this on the command-line:

K:\Post-Install-Scripts>tee
The system cannot execute the specified program.

and entries like this in the Eventlog:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SideBySide
Event Category: None
Event ID: 59
Date: 01/04/2010
Time: 19:09:22
User: N/A
Computer: MYMACHINE
Description:
Generate Activation Context failed for K:\Post-Install-Scripts\tee.exe. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.

The odd thing in this error message is “The operation completed successfully”: it didn’t :-)

Anyway: translating the underlying C++ code to C# is pretty straightforward, so:

The C# implementation

I did change a few things, none of them major:

  • replaced some for statements with foreach
  • renamed a few variables to make them more readable
  • added using statements for stdin and stdout
  • added try…finally for cleaning up the binary writers
  • moved the logic for duplicate filenames into a separate method, and moved the moment of checking to the point of adding the filename to the filenames
  • moved the help into a separate method
  • added support for the -h (same behaviour as –help or /?) command-line argument

The implementation is pretty straightforward:

  • Perform parameter parsing
  • Catch all input bytes from the stdin stream
  • Copy those bytes to both the stdout stream, and the files specified on the command-line
  • Send errors to the stderr stream
  • Do the proper initialization and cleanup

This is the C# code:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
// Sends standard input to standard output and to all files in command line.
// C# implementation april 4th, 2010 by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (https://wiert.wordpress.com),
// based on tee Chip Camden, Camden Software Consulting, November 2005
// 	... and Anonymous Cowards everywhere!
//
// TEE [-a | --append] [-i | --ignore] [--help | /?] [-f] [file1] [...]
//    Example:
// 	tee --append file0.txt -f --help file2.txt
//    will append to file0.txt, --help, and file2.txt
//
// -a | --append	Appends files instead of overwriting
// 			  (setting is per tee instance)
// -i | --ignore	Ignore cancel Ctrl+C keypress: see UnixUtils tee
// /? | --help		Displays this message and immediately quits
// -f			Stop recognizing flags, force all following filenames literally
//
// Duplicate filenames are quietly ignored.
// Press Ctrl+Z (End of File character) then Enter to abort.
namespace tee
{
    class Program
    {
        static void help()
        {
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Sends standard input to standard output and to all files in command line.");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("C# implementation april 4th, 2010 by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (https://wiert.wordpress.com),");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Chip Camden, Camden Software Consulting, November 2005");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("	... and Anonymous Cowards everywhere!");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("http://www.camdensoftware.com");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("http://chipstips.com/?tag=cpptee");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("tee [-a | --append] [-i | --ignore] [--help | /?] [-f] [file1] [...]");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("   Example:");
            Console.Error.WriteLine(" tee --append file0.txt -f --help file2.txt");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("   will append to file0.txt, --help, and file2.txt");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("-a | --append    Appends files instead of overwriting");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("                 (setting is per tee instance)");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("-i | --ignore    Ignore cancel Ctrl+C keypress: see UnixUtils tee");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("/? | --help      Displays this message and immediately quits");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("-f               Stop recognizing flags, force all following filenames literally");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Duplicate filenames are quietly ignored.");
            Console.Error.WriteLine("Press Ctrl+Z (End of File character) then Enter to abort.");
        }

        static void OnCancelKeyPressed(Object sender, ConsoleCancelEventArgs args)
        {
            // Set the Cancel property to true to prevent the process from
            // terminating.
            args.Cancel = true;
        }

        static List<String> filenames = new List<String>();

        static void addFilename(string value)
        {
            if (-1 == filenames.IndexOf(value))
                filenames.Add(value);
        }

        static int Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                bool appendToFiles = false;
                bool stopInterpretingFlags = false;
                bool ignoreCtrlC = false;

                foreach (string arg in args)
                {
                    //Since we're already parsing.... might as well check for flags:
                    if (stopInterpretingFlags)  //Stop interpreting flags, assume is filename
                    {
                        addFilename(arg);
                    }
                    else if (arg.Equals("/?") || arg.Equals("-h") || arg.Equals("--help"))
                    {
                        help();
                        return 1; //Quit immediately
                    }
                    else if (arg.Equals("-a") || arg.Equals("--append"))
                    {
                        appendToFiles = true;
                    }
                    else if (arg.Equals("-i") || arg.Equals("--ignore"))
                    {
                        ignoreCtrlC = true;
                    }
                    else if (arg.Equals("-f"))
                    {
                        stopInterpretingFlags = true;
                    }
                    else
                    {	//If it isn't any of the above, it's a filename
                        addFilename(arg);
                    }
                    //Add more flags as necessary, just remember to SKIP adding them to the file processing stream!
                }

                if (ignoreCtrlC) //Implement the Ctrl+C fix selectively (mirror UnixUtils tee behavior)
                    Console.CancelKeyPress += new ConsoleCancelEventHandler(OnCancelKeyPressed);

                List<BinaryWriter> binaryWriters = new List<BinaryWriter>(filenames.Count); //Add only as many streams as there are distinct files
                try
                {
                    foreach (String filename in filenames)
                    {
                        binaryWriters.Add(new BinaryWriter(appendToFiles ?
                            File.AppendText(filename).BaseStream :
                            File.Create(filename)));  // Open the files specified as arguments
                    }
                    using (BinaryReader stdin = new BinaryReader(Console.OpenStandardInput()))
                    {
                        using (BinaryWriter stdout = new BinaryWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput()))
                        {
                            Byte b;
                            while (true)
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    b = stdin.ReadByte();  // Read standard in
                                }
                                catch (EndOfStreamException)
                                {
                                    break;
                                }
                                // The actual tee:
                                stdout.Write(b); // Write standard out
                                foreach (BinaryWriter binaryWriter in binaryWriters)
                                {
                                    binaryWriter.Write(b); // Write to each file
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                finally
                {
                    foreach (BinaryWriter binaryWriter in binaryWriters)
                    {
                        binaryWriter.Flush();  // Flush and close each file
                        binaryWriter.Close();
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.Error.WriteLine(String.Concat("tee: ", ex.Message));  // Send error messages to stderr
            }

            return 0;
        }
    }
}

Some alternatives that might (or might not) support unicode:

http://www.commandline.co.uk/mtee/
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (cannot be downloaded any more – pitty, as they were pretty good)

–jeroen

Update: 201009041030 – Syntax highlighting didn’t work, so changed
sourcecode language=”C#“
into
sourcecode language=”csharp“

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Encoding, Power User, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, Visual Studio and tools, XP-embedded | 13 Comments »

C# / .NET – setting or clearing the Password Never Expires flag for a user

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/10/11

Recently, I had to change the “Password Never Expires” flag for some users on Windows systems.

In the past, there used to be a netuser tool available from WindowsITPro where you could use the pwnexp flag to set or clear that flag.
That tool seems to be vanished, so I was searching for alternatives.

Most alternatives I found depend on some  kind of scripting, or the use of the WMIC WMI command line interface: that was “out” because this particular setup is running on Windows XP Embedded, which is trimmed down very much.
The only C# example I found was on CodeProject, but it does

  • not take into account the existing flags correctly,
  • have  hard coded literals without any references where they are from,
  • use bit flag arithmetic without letting the C# compiler do its magic with enums,
  • use a call to the deprecated  InvokeGet method,
  • use the Invoke(“Put”, … way of calling that so many people use (which actually should have been an – also deprecated – InvokeSet method),
  • use COM Interop

Hence the solution below:
C#, with the proper ADS_USER_FLAG_ENUM enum from the MSDN documentation and no COM Interop, it also moves all literals to constants.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, CommandLine, Development, Software Development, XP-embedded | Leave a Comment »

CodeRage 4 session material download locations changed – CodeCentral messed up

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/18

Somehow, CodeCentral managed to not only delete my uploaded CodeRage 4 session materials (the videos are fine!), but also newer uploads with other submissions.

Since I’m in crush mode to get the BASTA! and DelphiLive 2009 Germany sessions done, and all Embarcadero sites having to do with their membership server perform like a dead horse, I have temporary moved the downloads, and corrected my earlier post on the downloads.

I have notified Embarcadero of the problems, so I’m pretty sure they are being addressed on their side as well.
Edit 20090919: Embarcadero indicated that between 20090913 and 20090914 there has been a database restore on CodeCentral. Some entries therefore have been permanently lost.

When I get back from the conferences, and CodeCentral is more responsive, I’ll retry uploading it there, and correct the posts.
In the mean time, be sure not to save shortcuts to the current locations, as they are bound to change.

The are the new download locations can all be found in my xs4all temporary CodeRage 4 2009 download folder.

This is the full list of my CodeRage 4 sessions and places where you can download everything: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, ASCII, CodeRage, CommandLine, Conferences, CP437/OEM 437/PC-8, Database Development, Debugging, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, Firebird, InterBase, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Prism, Software Development, SQL Server, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, Windows-1252 | 1 Comment »

CodeRage 4: session replays are online too!

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/13

Embarcadero has made available the replays of the CodeRage 4 sessions.
You can find them in the CodeRage 4 sessions overview.

In order to download them from that overview, NOTE: To access this session replay, you must be logged into EDN. you can login or sign-up (which is free).

To make it easier to find all the relevant downloads, below is an overview of my sessions and their links.

Let me know what you use it for, I’m always interested!

Update 20090918: changed the download locations because CodeCentral messed up.
Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, ASCII, C#, C# 2.0, CodeRage, CommandLine, Conferences, CP437/OEM 437/PC-8, Database Development, Debugging, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, Firebird, InterBase, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Java, Prism, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, Visual Studio and tools, XML, XML/XSD, XSD | 4 Comments »

CodeRage 4: session “Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs” video, chat and Q&A transcripts

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/11

Not only can you watch the video and download the CodeRage 4 session on materials on Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs, but below you can also find the chat transcripts below.

VIP Room Transcript with Q&A

(9/11/2009 9:09:19 AM) The topic is: Session Room 2 – “Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs” by Jeroen Pluimers


Public Room Transcript

(5:52:14 PM) Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – “Using Unicode and Other Encodings in your Programs” by Jeroen Pluimers
(9/11/2009 9:12:47 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: I got a bunch of 406 error messages in the jibber chat client, so I was afraid it lost the connection :-)
(9/11/2009 9:15:45 AM) Jim_Ferguson: Jeroen, Have you been getting a bunch of internal errors when you get fancy with generics?
(9/11/2009 9:15:53 AM) Borland: BTW, DavidI, excellent internet radio choice of KPIG. Very good Blues.
(9/11/2009 9:36:43 AM) Mandy_Walker: http://etncaweb04.embarcadero.com/resources/technical_papers/Delphi-and-Unicode_Marco-Cantu.pdf
(9/11/2009 9:39:14 AM) Jim_Ferguson: Strings are getting fatter on the back end.
(9/11/2009 9:40:39 AM) Mandy_Walker: Sorry, for incorrect link from slide. Better http://etnaweb04.embarcadero.com/resources/technical_papers/
(9/11/2009 9:49:20 AM) Jim_Ferguson: TBYtes and pChar arent equivalt. TBytes is a dynamic array. Shouln’t be pByte instead of TBytes?
(9/11/2009 9:53:05 AM) Jim_Ferguson: Sounds like Intel needs to build Unicode into the processor. There is a lot of out board thinking when it comes to characters now.
(9/11/2009 9:57:19 AM) Mandy_Walker: http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/delphi_live/material/DelpiLive09_Cantu_Unicode.pdf
(9/11/2009 9:58:26 AM) Borland: Thanks Joroen, this was packed with great information sources.
(9/11/2009 9:59:09 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/coderage/
(9/11/2009 9:59:17 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: https://wiert.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/coderage-4-session-materials-available-for-download/
(9/11/2009 9:59:24 AM) Mandy_Walker: Thx, Jeroen
(9/11/2009 10:00:47 AM) Erwin_Mouthaan: Bedankt Jeroen. Leuke presentatie!
(9/11/2009 10:01:04 AM) jthurman: Jeroen is a marching band guy?
(9/11/2009 10:01:05 AM) M_L: Thanks!
(9/11/2009 10:01:21 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: http://www.wmc.nl
(9/11/2009 10:01:22 AM) Giel: Bedankt Jeroen!
(9/11/2009 10:01:32 AM) Robert_D_Smith: I played snare and bass drum, Jeroen
(9/11/2009 10:01:40 AM) jthurman: Jeroen: I teach high school marching band in the USA. We should talk sometime.
(9/11/2009 10:02:05 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: write me an email: jeroen@pluimers.com
(9/11/2009 10:02:09 AM) jthurman: Will do
(9/11/2009 10:02:45 AM) Robert_Evans: Thanks Jeroen. Great stuff!
(9/11/2009 10:03:11 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: you are welcome; let me know when you have questions or run into things that I might be able to help with
(9/11/2009 10:04:48 AM) Jeroen_Pluimers: talking about migration projects: we have done quite a few for clients; so if you need help with that as well, drop me an email
(9/11/2009 10:05:46 AM) Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – “New Features in the RAD Studio IDE” by Mark Duncan & Darren Kosinski

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, C#, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Prism, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, XML, XML/XSD, XSD | 1 Comment »

CodeRage 4: session “Practical XML in Delphi” chat and Q&A transcripts

Posted by jpluimers on 2009/09/09

Not only can you download CodeRage 4 session on materials on Practical XML in Delphi, but below you can also find the chat transcripts below.

Note the times are a bit odd: when the chat window refreshes, it sometimes uses the PST time zone, but new posts are using the local time zone.
Hence the sudden jump from 9 AM to  almost 6 PM.

VIP Room Transcript with Q&A

[5:46:28 PM] <davidi>

Q: thomasgrubb asked: “Is there an implementation for XMLDocument (for Delphi Win32) that is file-mapped, e.g., the whole doc is not loaded into memory?”
A: Not that Jeroen is aware of.
[5:46:54 PM] <davidi>

Q: thomasgrubb asked: “Is there an implementation for XMLDocument (for Delphi Win32) that is file-mapped, e.g., the whole doc is not loaded into memory?”
A: Not that Jeroen is aware of. Send Jeroen an email and he will blog about other solutions.
[5:47:20 PM] <davidi>

Q: thomasgrubb asked: “For Embarcadero Technologies: Are you going to develop a better option for validating XML on the Win32 side in the future?”
A: David I – replied – I will forward this to R&D and Product management
[5:53:14 PM] <davidi>

Q: devtux asked: “are you using any XML test generator? Please, suggest one if yes”
A: XMLSpy
[5:53:47 PM] <davidi>

Q: richz asked: “I’ve been trying for weeks to find out how to have the Win32 Delphi IDE generate code to serialize/de-serialize my class properties to an XML file. Is there anything in the IDE to do that?”
A: From Delphi 2010 on – you can use DBX support for JSON!

Public Room Transcript

[7:58:58 AM] * Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – Next Session”Practical XML in Delphi” at 8AM PDT
[8:02:15 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Starting livemeeting
[8:03:59 AM] * Jeroen_Pluimers is wondering why LiveMeeting is always asking for email/company. Does it suffer from Korsakov’s disease?
[8:07:34 AM] <Christine_Ellis> It asks because we tell it to.
[8:08:22 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> but it never remembers, even if you start it with the same session parametes.
[8:08:41 AM] <Christine_Ellis> live meeting doesn’t use cookies and doesn’t know who you are
[8:08:47 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> ok.
[8:09:29 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> can we do a quick audio test?
[8:12:48 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> I mean: fro my current Microphone; it works with sound recorder, but wonder if Live Meeting will get it today as well.
[8:15:55 AM] * Christine_Ellis has set the topic to: Session Room 2 – “Practical XML in Delphi“
[8:35:37 AM] <Peter_Wolf> a lot of memory = usually 10 timer more than the size of XML file bytes
[8:36:27 AM] <Peter_Wolf> … the size of XML file in bytes
[8:39:14 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Peter: that totally depends on what you use to read that XML. The MSXML and Internet Explorer are notorous memory hogs. But .NET is much more efficient on memory usage.
[8:40:15 AM] <Peter_Wolf> i ment MSXML which is default for most users
[8:41:17 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Peter: yup, that’s why I mentioned that as the first one. Most of the Win32 users will use MSXML, because that is the default for Win32.
[8:43:45 AM] * Jeroen_Pluimers warns: be carefull where you press ESC in IE: it can unload your chat window.
[8:47:29 AM] <Scott_Hollows> my brain hurts
[8:48:57 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Scott: let me know later on if I can make it more clear to you.
[8:50:27 AM] <Ryan_Ford> Will this presentation be available for download?
[8:51:05 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Ryan: yes it will.
[8:52:59 AM] <Ryan_Ford> Its so nice to run 8GB for development
[8:52:59 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> @Ryan: the session materials are available for download here: https://wiert.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/coderage-4-session-materials-available-for-download/ The replays will be available for download after the conference.
[8:58:56 AM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> My VIP room died.
[9:00:08 AM] <AbsaLootly> … you have to hate it when that happens…
[9:01:46 AM] <Ryan_Ford> What alternatives for MSXML are there for WIN32
[9:02:22 AM] <Peter_Wolf> it also takes forever to open really big XML files wh MSXML
[5:45:31 PM] <AbsaLootly> I saw one developer try to put an entire database in one xml file… it took several hours to load it.
[5:51:59 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> MSXML
[5:52:03 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> ADOM XML
[5:52:05 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> Xerces
[5:52:56 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> That straight from the Delphi 2010 TXMLDocument.DOMVendor property
[5:53:25 PM] <Jeroen_Pluimers> XMLSpy can generate test ML
[5:54:16 PM] <Rich__> Thx
[5:55:17 PM] <Jim_Ferguson> Can you briefly describe JSON?
[5:56:02 PM] <Jim_Ferguson> what tool do you use transcribe your chat?
[5:56:23 PM] <Jon> it’s called a keyboard :)

–jeroen

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