This is the next post in our ongoing FAQ series. See the original post here. Q2: Conformance Level – Fragment There are times when you want to work with a piece of XML that is not a fully conformant xml document; an example of this is when the XML...

As part of a separate task, the XML team came up with a list of frequently encountered issues in System.XML; mainly points that we felt were interesting because they were the source of a lot of difficulty for our users. These questions ranged from rarely...

We are looking for people that have a passion for creating rich, intuitive, integrated XML experiences and are able to drive innovation from vision to product. If you’re passionate about cool experiences for world-class, innovative tools, interested...

The XmlPreloadedResolver is a new type that we’ve been working on in SilverLight that provides the ability to load a DTD without a call to the network. The new type can act as a manually maintainable cache of DTD’s and XML Streams. Let’s look at two...

A few months ago we added the XML Schema Explorer to the SP1 Beta release and are happy to announce that this week we've shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM release. As previously stated, the XML Schema Explorer illustrates...

The Data Programmability XML Tools team is conducting a survey focused on XML technology and tools usage over the coming weeks.  The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and we’d appreciate it if you would take the time to respond to it...

We’re thrilled to announce that today the new XML Schema Explorer is included in the Orcas SP1 Beta release for Visual Studio 2008. We previously released a CTP showcasing a subset of the XML Schema Explorer functionality last August. Many of the...

Prior to SQL Server 2008, SQLXML 4.0 was released with SQL Server and was installed by all SQL Server editions, except in SQL Server Express. Beginning with SQL Server 2008, the latest version of SQLXML is no longer included in SQL Server. When...

CoDe Magazine published an article on XML Tools. It covers a wide range of topics: Editing XML files, Schema cache and catalogs, Performance and working with large files, XSLT debugging, and Extending XML Tools Enjoy!

Scott Hanselman talks about XML Tools in his new book " Professional ASP.NET 3.5: in C# and VB ". He mentions XML Editor, which is available in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, as well as XML Schema Explorer , which we plan to ship in the next service pack...

We’re gearing up for the next release of the .NET Framework, and we are looking for people that have a passion for building great frameworks to help with the effort.  Since we’ve shipped the .NET Framework 3.5 we’ve been working...

I’m happy to announce that today we are re-releasing the LINQ to XSD Preview Alpha 0.2 for Visual Studio 2008. The previous preview release of LINQ to XSD targeted Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2008 but did not work on later builds. Many of the people who originally...

The W3C Recommendation Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 was initially published on the 10th of February 1998. Since then, XML has proliferated at a rapid pace, becoming the predominant method for electronic data interchange between information systems...

XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 allows developers to measure...

Chris Lovett was interviewed by book author Michael van Otegem recently and he asked some very interesting questions: Please tell us who you are and what you do. I’m an architect on the Data Programmability Tools team in SQL Server, and I work on XML...

On Tuesday we did a live MSDN Webcast to demo XML tools in Orcas as well as a few addons we are planning to release shortly after Orcas RTM. The webcast is now available online ( http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032355975&Culture...

Hello All, In March , we posted our intention to killbit MSXML4 and encouraged users to move to MSXML6 and asked for feedback – And we received lots and lots of it. The summary is MSXML4 is still being used extensively and the suggested timeframe...

XML Tools team has released the first CTP of the XML Schema Designer - a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas. The XML Schema Designer is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the XML Editor to enable you to work with XML Schema definition...

Around Memorial Day we released a new preview release for LINQ to XSD. The download has been picked up meanwhile by blogs and search engines. I am planning to blog about X/O mapping (“Typed XML programming”) and the project somewhat more in depth shortly...

These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new XML Editor , XSLT Debugger , and EDM Wizard coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new XSD Designer and EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas...

I have received a number of requests over a period of time asking how to get all the facets defined on simple types or complex types with simple content in an XML Schema. I recently wrote a code sample for the same and I thought i will post it for wider...

Erik Meijer gave a talk at the XTech 2007 conference on LINQ, XML, and his vision for "LINQ 2.0 ". The presentation covers the formal underpinnings of LINQ to XML, the additional XML features in VB9, and some thoughts about the next steps. To summarize...

Greetings from MIX07 everyone! That's right, Scott Guthrie announced this morning, to a sold out crowd at MIX07, the details around Silverlight, Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences...

[updated to point to the online version] ... is the documentation written by Eric White. The online version is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387098(VS.90).aspx If you install the "MSDN Library for Visual Studio Codename Orcas", you...

[updated with the public download location and resolution of the "XNamespace.Blank" issue] As S. Somasegar announced , Orcas Beta 1 is ready to ship and is available for download . There are some new (and renewed) features in LINQ to XML that you can...