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February CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" / .NET 3.5 is out

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:06 PM by XmlTeam
The Community Technology Preview of the next version of the .NET components that the XML team ships is ready for download. It is available in two forms: a self-extracting installer that will setup a version of Visual Studio that can co-exist side by side Read More...
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Some things on the radar ....

Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:55 AM by XmlTeam
There are a few things we've seen recently that you might want to take note of: Daylight Savings Time Changes This isn't related to XML, but we're trying to spread the word fairly widely. The US has changed the dates for daylight savings time starting Read More...
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VB 9.0 Xml in Visual Studio "Orcas" February CTP

Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:58 AM by XmlTeam
In February CTP you will find the same functionality as in the May CTP with many improvements. Some of these improvements came from the feedback of extensive usability studies we conducted in the fall. Observing the obstacles users encountered provided Read More...
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Standalone XQuery Implementation in .NET?

Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:28 AM by XmlTeam
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 are now W3C Recommendations, thanks in part to the contributions of several Microsoft employees over the years. An earlier draft of the XQuery specification is supported in SQL Server 2005 , and you can send an XQuery to the server Read More...
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XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 2:51 PM by XmlTeam
We're nearly code complete on the next version of Visual Studio, and will soon be releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) so that you can take a look, work on prototypes, and think about how the new features might fit into your development plans. Read More...
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