March 2004 - Posts

• XML Developer Center on MSDN Launched

  After talking about it for the past few weeks the XML Developer Center on MSDN is finally here. As mentioned in my previous post on the Dev Center the most obvious changes from the previous incarnation of http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml are The XML Developer Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 3:08 PM by DareObasanjo | 7 Comments

• The Holy Grail in XML<->Object Mapping Technologies

  I was reading a post by Rory Blyth where he points to Steve Maine's explanation of the benefits of Prothon (an object oriented programming language without classes). He writes One quote from Steve's post that has me thinking a bit, though, is the following: Read More... Posted Sunday, March 28, 2004 1:59 PM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• MSDN Magazine Article on Blogging and RSS

  Aaron Skonnard has a new MSDN magazine article entitled All About Blogs and RSS where he does a good job of summarizing the various XML technologies around weblogs and syndication. It is a very good FAQ and one I definitely will be pointing folks to in Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:50 AM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• Design Guidelines for Working with XML in the .NET Framework

  My recent Extreme XML column entitled Best Practices for Representing XML in the .NET Framework is up on MSDN. The article was motivated by Krzysztof Cwalina who asked the XML team for design guidelines for working with XML in WinFX. There had been and Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:19 AM by DareObasanjo | 7 Comments

• Countdown to the XML Developer Center on MSDN

  In less than a week we'll be launching the XML Developer Center on MSDN and replacing the site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml . The main differences between the XML Developer Center and what exists now will be The XML Developer Center will provide an Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:15 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• On The Upcoming XML Developer Center on MSDN

  MSDN has a number of Developer Centers for key developer topics such as XML Web Services and C# . There are also node home pages for lesser interesting [according to MSDN] topics such as Windows Scripting Host or SQLXML . Besides the fact that developer Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:40 AM by DareObasanjo | 4 Comments