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Performance of System.Xml in the .NET Framework V2

Vindication tastes so sweet: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/compare/xmlperf/default.aspx...

XQuery in the .NET Framework - Revisited

As I was catching up on email this afternoon, I noticed that Stylus Studio had sent out an XQuery-related newsletter which contained an interesting campaign to save XQuery on Microsoft .NET 2.0. As I ...

Pobre Mark

The Grinch (the watch, not Mark) Apparently Mark's ongoing saga with this "SmartWatch" is just that: ongoing.  I remember when he walked into my office earlier this year and showed me his nice,...

Timeshifting not always a good thing?

I love PVRs.  They let me timeshift television shows so that I can watch whenever I want.  One good thing about PVRs is that I KNOW what I'm watching isn't stale.  I know that the ten e...

Timeshifting not always a good thing

I love PVRs.  They let me timeshift television shows so that I can watch whenever I want.  One good thing about PVRs is that I KNOW what I'm watching isn't stale.  I know that the ten e...

XPathNavigator and the DataSet

An article I recently wrote about an XPathNavigator over DataSets is currently running on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspxpull=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/datasetnav.asp).  ...

Obligatory cheesy conference post

It seems that most members of the the blogging community succumb to posting a “Yesterday at the -Insert Name- Conference...”, so who am I to rock the boat. Yesterday at TechEd 2004, M...

Promises, promises

So much for for blogging more regularly.  But if there was ever a reason to start up again, Mark's recent post on XSLT 2.0 and Dare's response are as good a reason as you can get. ...

Tim Bray / RSS Bandit strikes again

Tim Bray, of XML co-creator fame, was just interviewed by News.Com. In the article, he gives a good overview of why XML was created and the possible solutions that wer...

PDC, XQuery, and mfussell

That special time of year has finally come: Microsoft is hosting PDC (Professional Developers Conference) at the end of October. For those of you not completely in the know, ...

Lazing Around

This past weekend I had two tasks I wanted to accomplish: Buy a new watch See michaelb's baby What I actually d...

Picking Up Steam

Just got back from a relaxing week in beautiful southern california.  Mid-80s, not a cloud in sight...basically perfection.  Fry's, (mom's) food, friends, and ...

I'm lame

Well, so much for my grand plans for blogging. Three months and I haven't posted anything. I admit it, I am quite lame. Luckily, nobody reads this with the exception of Dare who has the secret hope...

Primus

About me: Well, my name is Arpan Desai and I'm a Program Manager with the SQL Server group at Microsoft.  I work on the System.Xml stack in the .NET Framework, fo...

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