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• XML 1.0
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• Binary XML, and InfoPath

  Some great stuff going on with XML lately. Jan Tielens shows how to use InfoPath to access a secondary datasource , such as a SharePoint list Matt Warren then delves into some XML bestiary and shows a binary XML parser based on XmlReader . Cazz (the one Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:39 PM by kaevans | 4 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• msdata Namespace

  Ever wonder if there is an XML Schema for the msdata namespace (urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata) used by the DataSet generation wizard? You can find it here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponso Read More... Posted Monday, March 01, 2004 9:00 PM by kaevans | 2 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• Using Typed DataSets with Web Services

  Someone asked me about using a typed DataSet on both ends of the wire using a web service. I honestly don't work with typed DataSets, but this question was to accomodate the client's existing architecture. We both tried it, and couldn't get it to work. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:58 PM by kaevans | 8 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• Inside Indigo

  I am actually not a fan of individuals posting aggregated feeds, but I found a set of posts tonight that all hit around my areas of interest. This will not be a common occurrence for me, as I am posting these mainly as a selfish set of pointers. For those Read More... Posted Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:20 PM by kaevans | 3 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• Kicking the Dead Horse: More on Exceptions

  An interesting thread on the API Design Hall of Shame on Brad Abrams' blog. I have a question, how was the decision for these 2 classes ctor parameters made... Constructor for ArgumentNullException public ArgumentNullException( string paramName, string Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:30 AM by kaevans | 5 Comments Filed under: .NET

• XPath-Based Filtering With Pull-Based XML Parsing

  Some very interesting work has been going on with the classes in the System.Xml namespace. Daniel Cazzulino blogs about an XseReader implementation he has been working on for providing XML Streaming Events . I had been using a similar implementation for Read More... Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 9:36 AM by kaevans | 1 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• Anonymous Methods and Higher-Order Procedures in C#

  Steve Maine has a great article on using anonymous methods and higher-order procedures in C# . A point not necessarily highlighted in the article's text but rather through the code examples is that not all problems are solved through inheritance. Suppose Read More... Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:24 AM by kaevans | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Assembly Caching and XmlSerializer

  Paul Wilson emailed me with some questions regarding perceived memory leaks related to System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer. I questioned whether it would be a “memory leak”, but pinged Christoph Schittko for some backup evidence. He said Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:11 PM by kaevans | 10 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• XML Validation Against a Schema and a DTD With Namespaces

  Steven Livingstone has a great tip on validation using DTDs and Schemas against an instance document that includes namespaces . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:45 PM by kaevans | 0 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET

• Set Property in XsltArgumentList Extension Object: Ugly Hack

  Paul Duncan asks in the microsoft.public.xsl list how to set a property for an XSLT extension object. Yes, there is a way to do set the property of an XSLT extension object in .NET. But... This is such an ugly hack, I feel dirty posting the solution. Read More... Posted Sunday, February 08, 2004 6:16 PM by kaevans | 7 Comments Filed under: XSLT 1.0, .NET

• Exceptions and VB.NET, Revisited

  After a series of long IM sessions with Cory explaining my earlier post on VB.NET and Exceptions , he decided to post his thoughts on the matter . And Paul Vick weighed in through comments... > Our assumption is that the first thing that people will Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:33 PM by kaevans | 4 Comments Filed under: .NET

• DevDays - Nashville, TN - March 8th

  I am lucky enough to have been invited to speak at DevDays in Nashville, TN on March 8th at Loews Vanderbilt . I will be speaking on “Developing Secure Web Applications: Examining an End-to-End, Hack-Resilient Application.” Looks like I need Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:16 PM by kaevans | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET

• More d-o-e and XmlWriter

  In my last post, I described the behavior of disable-output-escaping (d-o-e) and System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform when serializing to an XmlTextWriter. This is a vague concept if you haven't fought d-o-e before, so I am expanding the explanation a bit. XSLT Read More... Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 11:35 AM by kaevans | 2 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0, .NET

• XSLT: d-o-e and XmlTextWriter

  XSLT has a facility known as disable-output-escaping (d-o-e) whereby you can write markup as literals. The most common use for d-o-e is for people unfamiliar with XSLT and recursive processing to easily create procedural algorithms and bypass the learning Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:11 PM by kaevans | 3 Comments Filed under: XSLT 1.0, .NET

• Binding External XML to a Dropdown List

  This question seems to come up fairly frequently, so I am putting a pointer in my blog for quick reference. In another blog entry, “ Use ASP.NET Data Binding to Bind Directly to XML (sans DataSet) ”, I showed how you can use an XmlNodeList Read More... Posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:48 PM by kaevans | 1 Comments Filed under: XML 1.0, .NET