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		<title>Using INTERSECT with LINQ to XML</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/using-intersect-with-linq-to-xml/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In terms of hands-on coding (not general awareness) I&#8217;m a bit of a newbie to the world of LINQ actually, having only dabbled with a little LINQ to XML in MockingBird and even there I wasnt too impressed with it in the area of XPath queries. But I came across something yesterday that is a testimony [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=247&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first year at MCS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday (the 18th Aug) marked my first year at Microsoft Consulting Services (UK). I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. Years ago, I used to wonder how it would be to work in MCS and dismissed the idea as too high to aspire to and yet here I am after a full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=225&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VS Color Schemes : Rejuvenating Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;ve been really late to this particular party, but I gotta say, I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled with the effect that changing the color schemes of VS has on improving my coding morale!! I&#8217;ve been using several schemes from Tomas Restrepo&#8217;s collection and its done wonders for me  (specifically Ragnorak Blue, Grey and Moria Alternate).  Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=205&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waltzing with WSDL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[MockingBird Diary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my immediate goals for MockingBird is to have the &#8220;Configurator&#8221; UI done where you can just pick a WSDL on file or point to a URL and have the tool shred it and generate sample request and response messages into the correct folders (and generate the Handler Configuration) after which the user can then do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=156&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas season is well and truly underway and its just a couple more days to Christmas day itself. Let me take the opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009 and I hope the season is good for you wherever you are.
I know i&#8217;ve been rather quiet on the Biztalk front [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=147&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VBUG Annual Conference 2008</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/vbug-annual-conference-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VBUG, a user group that I have been involved quite a bit with over the past few years is holding its 11th annual conference on Nov 4th and 5th. Check out their website for a full color brochure of the agenda and Craig Murphy has got a short summary of the topics on his blog as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=126&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powershell and Arrays as named parameters</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/powershell-and-arrays-as-named-parameters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While theres a ton of stuff on the usage of Powershell as an interactive scripting system there is not as much from a general programming perspective of a developer , at least not much that i could find today.
For example, while there is a flood of posts showing how you can manipulate the &#8220;args&#8221; system [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=106&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Menus for Office 2007</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/classic-menus-for-office-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m one of those folk who cannot stand the new Office Ribbon. I frequently collate material from various sources into single documents for easy reference and Just remembering how to set up the page orientation and do a print preview itself is very cumbersome. So i found a tool which resets all the menus to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=104&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rosario is now VSTS 2010</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/rosario-is-now-vsts-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first saw this article in SDTimes on VSTS 2010, and then found some official word on the subject in Brian Harry&#8217;s post titled Shining the Light on Rosario  which is a fairly detailed note (and an earlier note titled &#8220;Charting a course for Rosario&#8221; which provides even more infomation )
To quote a section from the article in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=97&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pet Peeves 2</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/pet-peeves-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so one more complaint on language usage and i&#8217;ll go back to proper tech stuff, I promise.
2 things that i see very often which are more than just typos are the following:

Using &#8216;extravert&#8217; instead of extrovert: This comes up very often in posts and articles about personalities. The opposite of an &#8216;introverted&#8217; personality is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=81&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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