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June 2006 - Posts

What LINQ to XML will NOT do

One of the worst pitfalls a design team can fall into is trying to do too much. The principle is captured by the well known quote: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de
Posted by mikechampion | 7 Comments

Thoughts about WinFS and related technologies

There's been a lot of discussion about the recent decision not to ship WinFS as a distinct product, but instead to incorporate its technologies into ADO.NET and SQL Server. I don't have much to contribute to the discussion about WinFS itself since I didn't
Posted by mikechampion | 8 Comments

Why does the world need another XML API?

The world has had a chance to look at the LINQ technologies a bit, and the overall response has been quite enthusiastic. But now we're getting some harder questions about how various LINQ components relate to one another and to existing Microsoft technologies.
Posted by mikechampion | 6 Comments

Please submit a proposal to speak at the XML 2006 Conference

I'll take a break from my XLinq focus to encourage people to submit a proposal to speak at the XML 2006 Conference (December 5-7, in Boston). I’m one of the track chairs for the “Enterprise XML Computing” track at the XML 2006 conference and my main job
Posted by mikechampion | 7 Comments

We know that XLinq rocks, but ....

As much as I appreciated Jim Wooley's response to a post on the xmlteam blog ... XLINQ is so simple that it doesn't need much discussion. (The same can't be said for the XML Dom which is another reason why I think XLINQ rocks) ... I hope people don't
Posted by mikechampion | 2 Comments

Non-merging text nodes in XLinq: They're Baacckk!!

When I described the changes to XLinq in the May CTP , I said: Note that whereas DOM explicitly allows adjacent text nodes, the XLinq implementation will always merge XText nodes to correspond with the structure of XML text. This has the benefit that
Posted by mikechampion | 1 Comments
 
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