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Xslt 1.0 has a number of issues that can make the life of an Xml developer frustrating. A lot of them are addressed by Xslt 2.0. Unfortunately the .NET Framework does not have an Xslt 2.0 compliant pr...
There is a few Xml APIs you should not be using. In some cases the complier makes this obvious the API is marked as obsolete and you will get a warning when compiling an application that uses any of ...
Xml is ubiquitous. No doubt about it. It is being used almost everywhere and almost by everyone. This includes places where huge amounts of data are being processed. This means xml files (or streams) ...
So, your application is crashing and it is crashing in the bad way. After spending hours of debugging and trying different things you figured out that this is this Xslt stylesheet that causes all the ...
XPath expressions are pretty flexible. This flexibility allows for very creative ways of using XPath. Unfortunately some of them are suboptimal and cause bad performance of apps. This is especially vi...
XslCompiledTransform is fast. Really? Yeah, XslCompiledTransform is fast if used correctly. Indeed, depending on how you use XslCompiledTransform API your transformations can be really fast or n...
This is the first part of a mini-series of blog posts about using Xml on .NET Framework platform in an effective way. Although I will be focusing on .NET Framework platform I hope that at least some o...
Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista (All SPs) Windows Server 2008 (All SPs) Windows XP SP3 Windows XP SP2 Windows Server 2003 (All Vers...
This document gives an overview of how the Visual Studio editor choosing system works, and as an example discusses the XML Editors choosing system. Visual Studio has the ability to associate mul...
This is a friendly reminder that MSXML4.0 SP2 is going out-of-support on 4/13/2010. Applications using MSXML4.0 should be either migrated to MSXML6.0 or upgraded to MSXML 4.0 SP3. For more information...
We have recently blogged about the new XML Schema Designer and the various views over schemas offered by it. We visit here the concept of schema sets, which are actually the central organizing concept...
We are happy to announce that we are releasing the sources for LINQ to XSD on CodePlex at http://linqtoxsd.codeplex.com. LINQ to XSD allows you to program with strongly-typed classes based...
Complex XSLT stylesheets often contain several include and/or imports instructions. VS XML Editor has very limited support for such scenarios. (Most noticeable it lacks the concept of "primary styles...
I've written in the past about XML and languages, and why you might be interested in being aware of the language associated with text.
Text with no language is just not quite there Impact of text...
Here's a good word of warning: even if an object "feels" read-only because you're not calling code to modify it, if it's not documented as safe for use from multiple threads, then you shouldn't risk...
Converting from XmlDocument to XDocument has a number of benefits, including the ability to use LINQ to XML, use a much cleaner object model, get better name handling with XName and being able to use ...
Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson).&nbs...
Today, we officially released MSXML4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on the Microsoft Download Center as a stand-alone installer in multiple languages.
MSXML4.0 SP3 is a complete replacement of MSXML4.0, MSXML...
In certain scenarios, it is important to be able to compare two XML trees for equivalence. For example, if you are writing a web service that serves results of queries, and you want to cache que...
The new XML Schema Designer (see this previous blog post for a d/l location to the CTP) offers four views over XML Schema Sets: XML Schema Explorer, Graph View, Content Model View, and Start View.&nbs...
The new XML Schema Designer (see this previous blog post for a d/l location to the CTP) offers four views over XML Schema Sets: XML Schema Explorer, Graph View, Content Model View, and Start View....
Happy New Year Everyone! The new XML Schema Designer (see this previous blog post for a d/l location to the CTP) offers four views over XML Schema Sets: the XML Schema Explorer, Graph View, Co...
The MSXML Team is pleased to announce that MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Beta is available for public testing. This new service pack includes a number of security bug fixes as well as reliability imp...
The MSXML Team is getting ready to release the MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 Beta very soon! MSXML4 SP3 is a complete replacement of previous MSXML 4.0 service packs. The new service pack includes: - A num...
In the Orcas SP1 release we released our XML Schema Explorer. In the Visual tudio 10 PDC VPC we shipped our first rev of the next set of planned features for our XML Schema Designer. Check...
Beth Massi and Yang Xiao did a great Channel 9 session that centered on XML Literals and the XML Schema Explorer. Check the session out here. One thing that doesnt come across in the video is that the...
As part of a separate task, the XML team came up with a list of frequently encountered issues in System.XML; mainly points that we felt were interesting because they were the source of a lot of diffic...
This is the next post in our ongoing FAQ series. See the original post here. Q2: Conformance Level – Fragment There are times when you want to work with a piece of XML that is not a fully conf...
We are looking for people that have a passion for creating rich, intuitive, integrated XML experiences and are able to drive innovation from vision to product.
If youre passionate about cool e...
The XmlPreloadedResolver is a new type that weve been working on in SilverLight that provides the ability to load a DTD without a call to the network. The new type can act as a manually maintainable ...
A few months ago we added the XML Schema Explorer to the SP1 Beta release and are happy to announce that this week we've shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM release....
The Data Programmability XML Tools team is conducting a survey focused on XML technology and tools usage over the coming weeks. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and we’d appre...
We’re thrilled to announce that today the new XML Schema Explorer is included in the Orcas SP1 Beta release for Visual Studio 2008. We previously released a CTP showcasing a subset of the XML Sc...
Prior to SQL Server 2008, SQLXML 4.0 was released with SQL Server and was installed by all SQL Server editions, except in SQL Server Express. Beginning Starting with SQL Server 2008, the latest versi...
CoDe Magazine published an article on XML Tools. It covers a wide range of topics:
Editing XML files,
Schema cache and catalogs,
Performance and working with large files,
XSLT debugging, and
E...
Scott Hanselman talks about XML Tools in his new book "Professional ASP.NET 3.5: in C# and VB". He mentions XML Editor, which is available in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, as well as XML Schema...
We’re gearing up for the next release of the .NET Framework, and we are looking for people that have a passion for building great frameworks to help with the effort. Since we’ve ship...
Im happy to announce that today we are re-releasing the LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 for Visual Studio 2008. The previous preview release of LINQ to XSD targeted Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2008 but did ...
The W3C Recommendation Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 was initially published on the 10th of February 1998. Since then, XML has proliferated at a rapid pace, becoming the predominant method for ...
XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Prof...
Chris Lovett was interviewed by book author Michael van Otegem recently and he asked some very interesting questions:
Please tell us who you are and what you do.Im an architect on the Data Programmabi...
On Tuesday we did a live MSDN Webcast to demo XML tools in Orcas as well as a few addons we are planning to release shortly after Orcas RTM. The webcast is now available online (http://msevents....
Hello All,
In March , we posted our intention to killbit MSXML4 and encouraged users to move to MSXML6 and asked for feedback And we received lots and lots of it. The summary is MSXML4 i...
XML Tools team has released the first CTP of the XML Schema Designer - a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas. You can download it from Microsoft Downloads site. This CTP introduces ...
Around Memorial Day we released a new preview release for LINQ to XSD. The download has been picked up meanwhile by blogs and search engines. I am planning to blog about X/O mapping (Typed XML program...
These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new XML Editor, XSLT Debugger, and EDM Wizard coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new XSD Designer and EDM Desig...
I have received a number of requests over a period of time asking how to get all the facets defined on simple types or complex types with simple content in an XML Schema. I recently wrote a ...
Erik Meijer gave a talk at the XTech 2007 conference on LINQ, XML, and his vision for "LINQ 2.0". The presentation covers the formal underpinnings of LINQ to XML, the additional XML features in...
Greetings from MIX07 everyone!That's right, Scott Guthrie announced this morning, to a sold out crowd at MIX07, the details around Silverlight, Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for de...
... is the documentation written by Eric White. It won't leap out at you: It's necessary to explicitly install the "MSDN Library for Visual Studio Codename Orcas", and then navigate as ...
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