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Understanding XML Schema Sets in the XSD Designer

Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:48 PM by XmlTeam
We have recently blogged about the new XML Schema Designer and the various views over schemas offered by it. We visit here the concept of schema sets, which are actually the central organizing concept around what is shown in the designer for a buffer Read More...
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LINQ to XSD now available on CodePlex

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:22 AM by XmlTeam
We are happy to announce that we are releasing the sources for LINQ to XSD on CodePlex at http://linqtoxsd.codeplex.com . LINQ to XSD allows you to program with strongly-typed classes based on an XSD schema and was previously released on MSDN as an alpha Read More...
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Stylesheet import tree in the XSLT Debugger

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:41 PM by XmlTeam
Complex XSLT stylesheets often contain several include and/or imports instructions. VS XML Editor has very limited support for such scenarios. (Most noticeable it lacks the concept of "primary stylesheet".) In the XSLT Debugging session you may need to Read More...
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XML and Languages

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:16 PM by XmlTeam
I've written in the past about XML and languages, and why you might be interested in being aware of the language associated with text. Text with no language is just not quite there Impact of text language on WPF Text, language and sorting For dealing Read More...
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XmlSchemaSet Thread Safety

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 2:59 PM by XmlTeam
Here's a good word of warning: even if an object "feels" read-only because you're not calling code to modify it, if it's not documented as safe for use from multiple threads, then you shouldn't risk it. As an example, let’s look at XmlSchema and XmlSchemaSet Read More...
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Converting from XmlDocument to XDocument

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:24 PM by XmlTeam
Converting from XmlDocument to XDocument has a number of benefits, including the ability to use LINQ to XML, use a much cleaner object model, get better name handling with XName and being able to use functional constructors. However, there are a lot of Read More...
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Hotfix for Visual Studio hang when opening Web project from a remote site

Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 4:24 PM by XmlTeam
Under certain conditions opening Web projects from remote sites may become very slow. We've seen quite a few 'hang' reports submitted via 'Send Information to Microsoft' feedback (aka Dr. Watson ). The reason is that sometimes XML editor (which is used Read More...
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MSXML4 SP3 Is Available Now!

Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 9:00 AM by XmlTeam
Today, we officially released MSXML4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on the Microsoft Download Center as a stand-alone installer in multiple languages. MSXML4.0 SP3 is a complete replacement of MSXML4.0, MSXML4.0 SP1 and MSXML4.0 SP2 and contains a number of bug Read More...
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XML Schema Designer - Content Model View

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 2:31 PM by XmlTeam
The new XML Schema Designer (see this previous blog post for a d/l location to the CTP) offers four views over XML Schema Sets: XML Schema Explorer , Graph View , Content Model View, and Start View. This entry will focus on the Content Model View. The Read More...
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Equality Semantics of LINQ to XML Trees

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 9:48 AM by XmlTeam
In certain scenarios, it is important to be able to compare two XML trees for equivalence. For example, if you are writing a web service that serves results of queries, and you want to cache query results so that duplicate queries use previously cached Read More...
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XML Schema Designer Graph View

Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 11:55 AM by XmlTeam
The new XML Schema Designer (see this previous blog post for a d/l location to the CTP) offers four views over XML Schema Sets: XML Schema Explorer , Graph View, Content Model View , and Start View.  This entry will focus on the Graph View.  Read More...
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MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 Beta

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:47 PM by XmlTeam
The MSXML Team is pleased to announce that MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Beta is available for public testing. This new service pack includes a number of security bug fixes as well as reliability improvements. MSXML4 SP3 is a complete replacement of Read More...
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MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 Beta Coming Soon!

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:59 AM by XmlTeam
The MSXML Team is getting ready to release the MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 Beta very soon! MSXML4 SP3 is a complete replacement of previous MSXML 4.0 service packs. The new service pack includes: - A number of security bug fixes - Reliability improvements Read More...
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XML Schema Designer in the PDC VPC

Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 1:36 PM by XmlTeam
In the Orcas SP1 release we released our XML Schema Explorer .  In the Visual tudio 10 PDC VPC we shipped our first rev of the next set of planned features for our XML Schema Designer.  Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Read More...
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XML Schema Explorer Channel 9 Session

Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:16 PM by XmlTeam
Beth Massi and Yang Xiao did a great Channel 9 session that centered on XML Literals and the XML Schema Explorer. Check the session out here . One thing that doesn’t come across in the video is that the Explorer can be used with any XSD set, not just Read More...
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