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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 5: The “Halloween” Problem (Doug Rothaus)
08 May 08 09:47 AM

In the last two XML cookbook entries, we talked about the technique of using the ReplaceWith method to perform an identity transform. While this technique may meet your needs, it can introduce a problem in your code commonly referred to as the “Halloween” Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 4: Get Inner XML from the Nodes Property (Doug Rothaus)
01 May 08 04:50 PM

Recipe 3 showed one way to work with mixed XML content using the XML Descendant axis property and the ReplaceWith method. This is one way to do an identity transform and we’ll look at another method in a later post. There is a key capability not mentioned Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 3: Identity Transforms (Doug Rothaus)
25 April 08 11:19 AM

An identity transform in XSLT does just what the name implies: replace the identity of an element or attribute with a new identity. Identity transforms are especially critical when dealing with XML markup that is less rigid in its structure. Consider Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 2: Descendants and Ancestors (Doug Rothaus)
19 March 08 04:23 PM

This entry in the cookbook shows how you can access descendant and ancestor elements in an XML document using Visual Basic, XML Axis properties, and LINQ to XML objects. Descendants Visual Basic provides XML Axis properties that enable you to easily refer Read More...

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VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 1: XML Transformations using XML Literals (Doug Rothaus)
21 February 08 12:22 PM

I was working on a blog entry about replacing XSLT transforms with Visual Basic XML Literals. As the entry progressed, I noticed that it was really, really long. So, Avner Aharoni and I talked things over and we decided to break it up into multiple entries Read More...

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Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense (Beth Massi)
17 January 08 07:54 PM

Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard . He also shows the differences between Read More...

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Channel 9 Interview: XML Literals Performance and Namespaces Explained (Beth Massi)
14 December 07 07:00 PM

I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni , a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team, as he dives into LINQ to XML and XML Literals in Visual Basic 9 and explains namespace bubbling and the performance gains you may see using XML Literals. Read More...

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Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)
26 November 07 11:35 AM

If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008 , you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine . It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize Read More...

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