Today's topic might be of interest for developers that work both in native and managed code, or who are transitioning from one to another. Moving XML nodes from one document to another is a common operation when you're merging content, for example...

Learn more about SP2 going out of support on the XML team blog. MSXML4 SP3 has been around for over a year now and has had a very positive reception. Get it! Share the good news with your friends! Of course, we're still encouraging everyone to migration...

Let's say you're browsing the Netflix OData catalog, and you'd like to sort the feed entries by their title. You type http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/Genres?$orderby=title into your browser, but you get this error message back. No property 'title...

I often write small utilities for myself, usually in JScript. For example, I've been working with native code where I often need to look at VARIANT values, and I wanted a little utility that would crack down the variant type field into a human-readable...

El post de hoy va en castellano... Es bien sabido en la comunidad de desarrolladores de software que el combustible principal es siempre algún líquido estimulante, típicamente café. En sudamérica sin embargo (y en algunos rincones de Redmond), también...

Today's post is about versioning data services. What is the most efficient way of evolving your OData system without sacrificing back compatibility? Of course the answer depends on what is changing, so let's dig in a bit. Let's say that data is...

I typically write blog posts in batches, then schedule them for publishing about once a day, Monday through Friday, at 2PM. Of course I go through times when I'm deeply focused on something else and nothing comes up, but this explain why I sometimes post...

This question came up recently in the forums, and I thought I'd post some sample code to show how to do it. The idea is this: you can an XML document in a string variable, and you want to load it into a document. You also have an XSD that you want...

OData. And now you know. Of course, the page title of the quite-authoritative-sounding www.odata.org makes it kind of obvious. Friends don't let friends spell "oData"!

OData is gaining momentum as a way to share data over the web and inside corporations. There are many nice characteristics of the payload formats and conventions; some of these are explicit in the protocol, like the fact that data items have their type...

In case you thought it was exclusively centered around game development, the session on Building a High Performance 3D Game for Windows Phone includes some useful performance tips that apply to general managed code, so it's worth checking out. It also...

Late last year I mentioned how great the mouse gestures add-on is. If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, you may be tempted to just download and run the 64-bit version. My current laptop came with Windows 7 64-bit, for example, and that's...

This post is the final one for the XmlWriter and StreamWriter encoding series (see parts one and two first). If you ran the original example, you'll notice that the last combination of encodings we wrote produced this output. Stream Encoding: (no...

This post provides the results for yesterday's post , where we discussed encoding for XML, Unicode and the presence of the Byte Order Mark (BOM). Without further ado, here they are. Let's starts with the first two. The first is an XmlWriter directly...

This was actually available as of at least yesterday: go to http://live.visitmix.com/Videos and get your fill of MIX session videos and slides. There are even a few scripts that help you download all the content if that's what you're interested in...

Today I want to talk about XmlWriter and the generation of a Byte Order Mark (BOM). XmlWriter provides an API that generates, unsurprisingly, XML. This XML will typically end up as a managed string of characters or possibly a sequence of bytes. Of...

Today is the second day of MIX10, and if you've watched the keynote, you know there is a huge commitment to OData, with both runtimes and a data marketplace ("Dallas"). The http://www.odata.org/ site has some incredible resources. There are links to...

Today is the first day of MIX10, a conference focused for web developers and designers. Tremendous amount of great content, announcement, exciting events, all sorts of good stuff. If you're not attending this year, be sure to check out the content...

Sometimes I just love loose XAML. It has been around for a long time , but not every developer that works with WPF knows about this feature. In any case, I wanted to play with fonts and font sizes specifically to see how WPF would render different...

J.D. Meier recently posted a summary / impact statement on the Microsoft Blue Books, and I thought I'd add a thought from my experience. Recently I was engaged with a customer who was considering updating their solution stack. They had decided to update...

Beth Massi, VB.NET heroine, shows how to set up the server and client pieces of a VB.NET solution to leverage the new query projections in WCF Data Services. http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2010/03/02/using-projections-with-data-services-in...