I'm in the end stages of doing the spec work for the various components in the System.Xml namespace I am responsible for in the Whidbey betas. After the 4th of July holidays we plan to start doing initial brain storming for what feature work we should...

The folks at MSDN Chats have organized an online chat session on C# and XML for next month. The participants on the Microsoft side should include myself, Mark Fussell , Erik Meijer , Neetu Rajpal and couple of folks from the C# team. If you'd like to...

My submission on Designing Extensible & Version Resilient XML Formats has been accepted to XML 2004 . It looks like I'm going to be in Washington D.C. this fall. Currently I'm in the process of writing an article about the topic of my talk which should...

In a post entitled My comments on the Infoworld article "Databases flex their XML" Michael Rys writes Sean McCown wrote this analysis ( PDF version ) in Apr 2004. In the article, he compares the XML capabilities of the 4 major relational database...

Chris Sells has announced the call for speakers for the Applied XML Developers Conference 5 . From his post Are you interested in presenting a 45-minute talk on some applied XML or Web Services topic? It doesn't matter which platform or OS you're...

We have a few open developer and program manager positions on the WebData XML team at Microsoft. Are you interested in working on implementing XML technologies that will impact not only significant aspects of Microsoft but the software industry at large...