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• Getting Started with SharePoint (WSS) Web Services using LINQ to XML

  [Blog Map] Web services are one of the most effective and convenient ways for casual developers to access SharePoint lists and document libraries. They have a reputation for being a bit difficult; LINQ to XML can make them easier to use. This post presents the basic steps for getting started with Windows SharePoint Services Web Services using LINQ to XML (either C# or VB). In several upcoming posts, I’ll present some more information about using web services, as well as more notes on the code presented Read More... Posted Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:32 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, xml, OpenXML, LINQ to XML, SharePoint, Useful Code Snippets

• Convert XElement to XmlNode (and Convert XmlNode to XElement)

  Sometimes you want to convert an XmlNode to an XElement and back again. Some programming libraries define methods that take XmlNode objects as parameters. These libraries also may contain properties and methods that return XmlNode objects. However, it is more convenient to work with LINQ to XML instead of the classes in System.Xml (XmlDocument, XmlNode, etc.) This post presents a bit of code to do these conversions. As an example of where you need these methods, you can do a lot with SharePoint using Read More... Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 7:05 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: xml, LINQ to XML, Useful Code Snippets

• Using LINQ to XML Events and Annotations to Track if an XML Tree has Changed

  You may optionally be making a number of modifications to a very large XDocument object. Because of a complicated algorithm, you may not necessarily know ahead of time whether you will be making changes. If you don’t make any changes, then you don’t want to unnecessarily serialize the tree and save it to disk, or send it over the wire. This post presents a simple technique to determine if an XDocument has ever been modified since deserialization or creation. For example, you might have a very large Read More... Posted Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:54 AM from Eric White's Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: LINQ, xml, LINQ to XML, Useful Code Snippets