October 2004 - Posts

• Don Box's WS-Why Talk and the WS Kernel

  At Chris Sells' XML DevCon conference Don Box gave a talk called WS-Why which is described below " Why? This talk will make sense of why various WS-* specs came to life and which ones every developer should ignore. Naturally, the size of this set is non-zero, Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:05 AM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• New Beginnings

  Friday was my last day on the XML team at Microsoft. On Monday I start work as a Program Manager on MSN Communication Services Platform team. This team is responsible for the server side implementation of several aspects of MSN including MSN Messenger Read More... Posted Sunday, October 24, 2004 4:42 PM by DareObasanjo | 8 Comments

• SAX for .NET 1.0 and SAXExpat.NET 1.0 Released

  Karl Waclaweck has released version 1.0 of the SAX for .NET project . In the announcement on XML-DEV Karl writes This is the first production release of the C#/.NET port of the SAX API. It should be compatible with MS.NET 1.1 and Mono 1.0.2. Since the Read More... Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:34 PM by DareObasanjo | 4 Comments

• Hindsight is 20/20: Three Things XML Got Wrong

  Derek Denny-Brown , the dev lead for both MSXML & System.Xml , who's been involved with XML before it even had a name has finally started a blog. Derek's first XML-related post is Where XML goes astray... which points out three features of XML that Read More... Posted Sunday, October 17, 2004 11:57 AM by DareObasanjo | 2 Comments

• Upcoming Changes to System.Xml in .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2

  We are in the process of locking down System.Xml for Beta 2 of the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. In the past few months we have received customer feedback about our feature set previewed in the Whidbey Alpha & Whidbey Beta 1 and this Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:25 AM by DareObasanjo | 26 Comments

• The XML Litmus Test: Understanding When and Why to Use XML

  I just finished writing last month's Extreme XML column* entitled The XML Litmus Test: Understanding When and Why to Use XML . The article is a more formal write up from my weblog post The XML Litmus Test expanded to contain examples of appropriate and Read More... Posted Sunday, October 10, 2004 8:35 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments