I spent the first four years of my career here at Microsoft as part of Microsoft Consulting Services in NYC. One of my biggest pet peeves was that......

I had an amazing thing happen recently and I wanted to blog about it because it's had quite a powerful effect on me. Recently, I had the opportunity to proctor a usability study for the XmlReader......

The core piece of Linq is a query language which can query many, many kinds of data. Of course, its the 'many' part which is difficult to get right. The tricky part is that, if you are going to query different kinds data, you have to specify something that all your data types have in common, and then build your query language on top of that commonality. ...

I had the great pleasure of helping to represent one of Microsoft's new technologies at the PDC this year, its called LINQ; Language INtegrated Query. I hope to provide a number of posts about the details of LINQ and XLinq over the next few weeks, but I thought I should start with a simple introduction first, for everyone who was not able to make it to this event. ...

(My post today is on a topic some of you may already be familiar with - reusing NameTable across Xml messages. If so, please feel free to skip this entry. I posted it because, while I have seen other press on this issue, I thought it was important enough that I wanted to get more information out there.) For anyone who has not met him yet, I would like to introduce you to an old friend, XmlNameTable. XmlNameTable is an interface used by XmlReader and XmlDocument when they want to store atomi...

Priya Lakshminarayanan, ruler of all things schema, has just posted an article on UPA errors (that's 'Unique Particle Attribution') that does a great job of presenting a very complicated schema issue very clearly. I would guess that even major schema...

Oleg Tkachenko over at Signs in the Sand had a recent blog post about the OutputSettings property of XslCompiledTransform. He posted this example usage......

As you may already be aware, there is an article on msdn about the great performance improvements we made in the V2 xml stack. This is a pretty big event for the team, since increasing performance was one of the big goals of this release. While I posted this to give a shout-out to the team for the great perf work in they did for Whidbey, I want to take a minute to point out another interesting part of the article......