XML Notepad 2007 source code is now available on http://www.codeplex.com/xmlnotepad . Enjoy!

Validation of an XML document against an Xml Schema guarantees that the structure and content of the xml conforms to the types defined in the schema. Does this mean that we automatically elevate the trust level of a document that has passed schema validation...

In the first post in this series we gave some background to a problem the LINQ to XML design team has been working on for some time: how to easily yet efficiently work with very large XML documents. In today's world, developers have a somewhat unpleasant...

New features include support for XInclude, Goto Definition, XSD annotations in tooltips, a new navigation combo box for opening XML directly off HTTP, new menus for changing node types, better handling of XML documents containing illegal characters plus...

Please read the latest entry on this at http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/09/13/we-are-not-killbit-ing-msxml4.aspx - We are NOT killbiting MSXML4 Hi, We are going to kill bit MSXML4 in the October – December timeframe of this year...

Contents Upgrading to MSXML 6.0 . 1 1. Abstract 1 2. Installation & Upgrade . 2 3. Security Migration – Understanding Off-By-Default 3 4. Improving W3C XSD 1.0 Conformance & Compatibility with System.Xml 2.0: Changes to the XmlSchemaCache...

Check out the Webcast : The next version of VB .Net adds Xml as a built in data type using the new LINQ to XML API. As a built in data type, VB 9.0 provides the ability to create XML using XML Literals and to query XML documents using XML properties...

This is the first of a multi-post series (#2 is now online ) on how to use LINQ to XML in scenarios that require streaming over a large input and/or output data source rather than loading a document into memory, processing it, and saving it. A considerable...

[updated to try out a Live Writer plugin for code formatting ... let's see if that makes the code samples more readable!] In a previous post we presented an overview of the XML Features in the "Orcas" Community Technology Preview . This post gives some...

The Community Technology Preview of the next version of the .NET components that the XML team ships is ready for download. It is available in two forms: a self-extracting installer that will setup a version of Visual Studio that can co-exist side by side...

There are a few things we've seen recently that you might want to take note of: Daylight Savings Time Changes This isn't related to XML, but we're trying to spread the word fairly widely. The US has changed the dates for daylight savings time...

In February CTP you will find the same functionality as in the May CTP with many improvements. Some of these improvements came from the feedback of extensive usability studies we conducted in the fall. Observing the obstacles users encountered provided...

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 are now W3C Recommendations, thanks in part to the contributions of several Microsoft employees over the years. An earlier draft of the XQuery specification is supported in SQL Server 2005 , and you can send an XQuery to the server...

We're nearly code complete on the next version of Visual Studio, and will soon be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) so that you can take a look, work on prototypes, and think about how the new features might fit into your development plans...

It has been a while since my last post and I apologize for that. There was a lot of work going on in getting the xml integration in VB into production quality. In this blog I would like to share with you a fun little demo I wrote for Xml 2006 conference...

Several of us will be at the XML 2006 Conference this week in Boston. If you are around, drop by to say hello ... Stan Kitsis will be giving a talk on on XML Schema adoption based on a study done in collaboration with the University of Michigan Business...

Announcing the LINQ to XSD Preview Ever since PDC 2005, when XLinq was unleashed ( now called LINQ to XML ), we have been receiving questions about the possibility of a typed XML programming approach in the LINQ world . Not surprisingly, we have...

“ Typed XML programmer, where have you have been in the last few weeks? ” This series of blog posts has been stuck because I attended a bunch of conferences and workshops, and I was really busy with an incubation project on typed XML programming (see...

Although XML wasn't officially released as a W3C Recommendation until February 1998, the effort that led to it began about 10 years ago. One recent anniversary is the first public working draft released on November 14, 1996. Another is its first public...

Greetings! My name is Aaron Dunnington. Recently, I have joined the Data Programmability XML team as a Program Manager focused on XML readers and writers. I am so excited to work with and learn from such a tremendously talented, passionate team that...

I’ve been working closely with the IE team leading up to the release of IE7 and looking at the use of XML in the browser. During this investigation one thing has become immediately obvious – there is a lot of confusion around the versioning story for...

We were very happy to note that "DonXml" Demsak won the Visual Studio Extensibility Plugin Contest with his XPathMania plugin. This enhances the VS 2005 XML editor to highlight the nodes that would be selected by an XPath expression. A great way to learn...

XML Notepad 2006 provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents. XML Notepad shows how to use some advanced features of System.XML in the .NET Frameworks 2.0. The download includes source code. See the handy design doc...

There's been a lot of unhappiness about the W3C floating around recently, well-summarized by Dare Obasanjo . Most of us involved with XML at Microsoft share a good bit of the general frustration, if not the specific complaints, expressed in these posts...

This post continues the “Typed XML programmer” series of blog posts. This time, let’s ponder about ‘ the 1 st generation of typed XML programming ’. What are the imperfections of the 1 st generation ? (Thanks for your feedback so far. In particular, I...