Dare Obasanjo's WebLog
What's New in System.Xml for .NET Compact Framework v2.0
A few months ago Mark Fussell wrote an article entitled What's New in System.Xml for Visual Studio...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/21/2004
Improving XML Performance in .NET Framework Applications
The Microsoft Pattern and Practices folks have produced an excellent guide to Improving .NET...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/18/2004
Why You Won't See XSLT 2.0 or XPath 2.0 in the Next Version of the .NET Framework
The XML team has recently started getting questions about our position on XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0 and...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/13/2004
How To Programmatically Modify an InfoPath Form Template
The folks behind the InfoPath team blog have posted a short series on how to programmatically modify...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/11/2004
Design Guidelines for Exposing XML in APIs for Whidbey/Longhorn
I recently submitted the Design Guidelines for Exposing XML Data as part of the WinFX design...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/06/2004
Knowing the Limitations of XML Schema Validation
I recently stumbled on blog posting by Phil Ringnalda called a little chip in the concept where he...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/06/2004
Conversion tool for ADO.NET DataSet's XML format to ADO RecordSet and Excel XML formats
Brendan Tompkins has written a handy utility that can transform an ADO.NET DataSet into different...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/30/2004
My Interview with Channel 9
A few weeks ago Robert Scoble and Charles Torre came by my office and interviewed me for about an...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/27/2004
XInclude for .NET, Sequential XPath and XPathNavigatorReader
It seems April is the month of custom implementations of the XmlReader. The first entry was Daniel...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/26/2004
XPath for the HTML DOM in Internet Explorer
Dimitri Glazkov has produced a JavaScript implementation of DOM Level 3 XPath for Microsoft Internet...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/20/2004
Michael Rys on the Benefits of the XML Datatype in SQL Server 2005
Micheal Rys clarifies some details about the XML datatype in Yukon, he writes ...an XML instance can...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/16/2004
The Problem with Dates, Timezones and XmlConvert
A recent post by Brad Abrams on DateTime, Serialization and TimeZones highlights one of the problems...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/14/2004
Designing XML Formats: Versioning vs. Extensibility
Many people designing XML formats whether for application-specific configuration files, website...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/11/2004
Some Thoughts on the SAX dot NET Project
A little while ago I noticed the SAX dot NET project was announced on the XML-DEV mailing list. From...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 04/01/2004
XML Developer Center on MSDN Launched
After talking about it for the past few weeks the XML Developer Center on MSDN is finally here. As...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/29/2004
The Holy Grail in XML<->Object Mapping Technologies
I was reading a post by Rory Blyth where he points to Steve Maine's explanation of the benefits of...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/28/2004
MSDN Magazine Article on Blogging and RSS
Aaron Skonnard has a new MSDN magazine article entitled All About Blogs and RSS where he does a good...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/24/2004
Design Guidelines for Working with XML in the .NET Framework
My recent Extreme XML column entitled Best Practices for Representing XML in the .NET Framework is...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/24/2004
Countdown to the XML Developer Center on MSDN
In less than a week we'll be launching the XML Developer Center on MSDN and replacing the site at...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/17/2004
On The Upcoming XML Developer Center on MSDN
MSDN has a number of Developer Centers for key developer topics such as XML Web Services and C#....
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 03/09/2004
A Look at the xml:base attribute and the .NET Framework's XmlReader
The W3C xml:base recommendation describes the attribute xml:base when appearing on an XML element...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 02/28/2004
XmlReader and the Factory Design Pattern
Daniel Cazzulino writes in response to Don Demsak's post on Waking Up From A DOM Induced Coma So, in...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 02/28/2004
Introductions: My Day Job
I am a program manager for the WebData XML team. The WebData team is part of the SQL Server Product...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 02/20/2004