It’s been weeks windows phone seven developers tools released to public. I have been thinking to write something here just to make my hands dirty and in the end will be useful to community. Here is an humble attempt to play around with XML support in windows phone 7. My idea is to start a series of blog posts on wiki to XML , i.e. convert wiki formatted text to XML file format. During the Journey touch as many XML features supported by windows seven programming as possible. There is a saying in Telugu language "Anna praasana rOjE aavakaayaa!" (అన్నప్రాసన రోజే ఆవకాయా!). Which can be free translated to "Burgers and Pizza's to a six month old Kid!" ; Basically what I meant to say is instead of building a complete complex wikitoXML project on day one and in blog post one, I will be simply focusing bit by bit. I visualize this journey to be started as a small stream among rocks and then flow like a river of magnanimous size and in the end merge with ocean.
I don't know whether there exist any tools already available for wiki to XML, I haven't binged it as my idea is not to write any useful tool rather I choose this because wiki formatting looks one to one formatting to an XML file, wiki formatting is simple and complex enough to play around for a while.
I will be using Windows Phone 7 Express edition developer tools, if you don't have one get it from here http://developer.windowsphone.com/
Knowledge of c# is assumed from the reader.
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