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The fix to requests for XHTML DTD files from the W3C Web server has been recently released. Windows Update should offer the fix automatically, but you can download and install the fix manually from the following links for various MSXML versions: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=973688
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This is something that I've been asked more than once, and so here goes an answer that might help if you run into this. Let's say that you create a new project and borrow code or do something of the sort, and suddenly start getting an error message such
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Edward discusses how to set an integer in the MSXML APIs in this thread . I wanted to provide the snippet of code necessary to do this on an attribute, using the very awesome wrappers generated by the Visual C++ #import directive. The catch is that becausae
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Some data one would expect that will be around for a long time . Longevity however has some interesting challenges associated with them. At the physical level, the piece of hardward on which data lives may deteriorate to the point that the data is unrecoverable.
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Beth Massi has written a couple of very good posts involving ADO.NET Data Services, which I strongly encourage folks to read. Using ADO.NET Data Services (the fundamentals, great walk-through) Building an Office Business Application for TechReady 8 (awesome
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If you've got questions about MSXML, have comments to share, want to discuss the technology, see what others are up to, or show the community your knowledge and share with others, here is the new MSDN Forum for you! http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msxml/threads/
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MSXML uses a garbage collection technique, which allows it to delay releasing resources. There is more informatoin about this on Understanding the MSXML garbage collection mechanism , which gives a nice introduction. As part of this mechanism, MSXML actually
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Here's a bit of coincidence (these byte / text / language posts were scheduled a while ago) - MSDN Magazine has an International Applications article that mentions the impact on language on other text processing operations, such as comparisons, sorting
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Finally, the examples I mentioned on my last post about text . Let's take the WPF text rendering engine as my example of a text processor that's sophisticated enough to handle this correctly. First off, as explained in xml:lang Handling in XAML , the
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This is kind of a continuation of Working with text and bytes , by the way - you might find those interesting as well, although this is getting more abstract as we go. Let's consider this example: let's say I'm a rendering engine, and I want to display
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This post continues from the previous Bytes, encodings and text post. The reading and writing classes I mentioned before are abstract ( TextReader , TextWriter and Stream ). Depending on what the underlying source/target is, you'll use one subclass or
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Today's post revolves around a very simple equation and the .NET Framework support for the different parts. bytes + encoding = text Typically device resources such as files and network connections will work in terms of bytes. To represent bytes, you can
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So, if you follow the ' Ask the Performance Team ' blog, you've probably seen the intro and troubleshooting tips for Side-by-side . There is a lot more information about this on MSDN , which is very useful (I should probably say necessary ) to do correct
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So, let's say there's an application that you're running that's using MSXML, but you're not sure which version it's using. You can of course fire a debugger, attach to the process, and take a look at the loaded modules, but that's a bit overkill for something
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If you're following the PDC announcements, new, good things are coming for developers and business... MSDN is already showing some topics to get you started. Azure Services Platform . Includes Windows Azure SDK, Live Services SDK, Microsoft .NET Services
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