LINQ in Action - THE LINQ book

When I was writing the LINQ to XML documentation, Ralf Lämmel was the program manager for LINQ to XSD, an incubation project in the data programmability group at Microsoft.  Ralf really helped me a lot in those days, both with questions on LINQ to XML, and questions around functional programming.  It was in email exchanges ...

In my post, OpenXmlCodeTester: Validating Code in Open XML Documents I used XSD to validate the build instructions (which are XML that you place in content controls).  INFER.EXE, available at XML Downloads, is your best friend for putting together schemas.  This isn't news,  but I was chatting with one of my dev friends here at ...

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 difficulty for our users. These questions ranged from rarely used (or misused) methods to difficult XML constructs.  We focused specifically on ...

The XmlPreloadedResolver is a new type that we’ve 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 cache of DTD’s and XML Streams. Let’s look at two examples of how the XmlPreloadedResolver can be used. Example 1: The ...

For those who don't know, XmlLite is a very lightweight, fast pull parser that was introduced with the Vista SDK.  It is a native parser, not part of the managed API.  However, unlike MSXML, it's ok to use with .NET using COM interop.  There have been questions on how to use it - specifically, where to get the header and lib files ...

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 electronic data interchange between information systems, and we can safely describe it as universally applicable, fast, scalable and durable ...

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.I’m an architect on the Data Programmability Tools team in SQL Server, and I work on XML tools that ship in Visual Studio.  As an architect I do lots of different things including: ...