Scott Hanselman on VB9's New "XML Hotness"
I've just gotten caught up on Scott Hanselman's latest Hanselminutes and wanted to point out this great show on LINQ to XML and specifically his comments on Visual Basic 9's implementation of XML literals and XML IntelliSense. If you're a fan of Hanselminutes you know that Scott's a newly converted Microsoftie and an ex-MVP like myself and his insight into architecture and programming in general is enlightening (does that guy ever sleep?).
To quote Scott about XML in VB: "Writing it is just so pleasant. I could really see my self writing some VB libraries if I really needed to do some serious XML inside them." Scott's also got an interesting post on a more "elegant" way to create a single assembly from multiple (mixed language) projects using ILMerge (also the post where I stole the term "XML hotness" from him <g>).
I'll be speaking on VB9's LINQ to XML at QCon in San Francisco this November 9th so come check it out and see for yourself the hotness that is VB XML.
Also make sure to check out these resources on VB9's LINQ to XML:
And look for some How-Do-I videos on the subject soon!
Enjoy!
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About Beth Massi
Beth is an Online Content and Community Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team responsible for producing content for business application developers and driving community features onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com/). She also produces content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/), and a variety of other developer sites. As a Visual Basic community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and modifying cars.
