XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

Stuart Ballard — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:27:30 GMT

Is there going to be an XmlNodeWriter in Orcas? It's a fairly glaring hole, especially if you've ever wanted to apply an XSL transformation to an in-memory XmlDocument and get the result as another in-memory XmlDocument. You can pass the input to the transform via XmlNodeReader, but to get it back out again you just have to feed your XmlWriter to a StringBuilder and then parse it...

Fortunately my use case wasn't performance-critical, but it's still ugly...

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

Oleg Tkachenko — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:22:25 GMT

Stuart, XmlNodeWriter in .NET 2.0 is hiding in

xmlNode.createNavigator().AppendChild() method. It can be used to populate XmlNode via XmlWriter API and so you can

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

using (XmlWriter writer = doc.CreateNavigator().AppendChild()) {

xslt.Transform(input, (XsltArgumentList)null, writer);

}

Mike, am I right that Orcas January CTP includes none of these coolness?

On embedding XSLT stylesheets into assemblies

Signs on the Sand — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:25:46 GMT

I was writing about loading XSLT stylesheets embedded into assemblies (dll or exe) recently and Richard Quinn asked this very legitimate question: But why oh why would anyone embed their XSLT in the assembly? The point is to separate design from logic.

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

XmlTeam — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:06:11 GMT

Oleg, to be honest I don't know for sure, but I don't think so - the February CTP is the release where we will present what all is ready to show, what has been documented, what has been tested end-to-end, etc.

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

Fred — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:25:04 GMT

Any sign of XSLT 2.0 support?

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

Steve — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:55:55 GMT

This post implies that the next CTP is soon and the link below states that the FEB CTP has been delayed to March.

Will there be a release in Feb? Will it have WPF support?

http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/orcas-february-2007-ctp-delayed-to.html

re: XML Features in the February CTP of Visual Studio “Orcas”

XmlTeam — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:41:39 GMT

I don't know anything about the eventual ship date for the "February" CTP. All the XML code that is going in is loaded on board, but I don't know when the train will leave the station. We'll update if we hear anything. The whole point of the Feb CTP, however, is not so much to have the train run ontime but to make sure that all the May 2006 prototype cargo has been remanufactured to production spec and carefully reloaded.

As for XSLT 2, the short answer is "Not in Orcas, therefore not in the Feb CTP". See the previous XML Team post.

Now Available: March CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas"

Guy Burstein's Blog — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:38:15 GMT

I've been waiting for quite some time for this release. For start, I've been playing a lot with Linq

Now Available: March CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas"

Guy Burstein's Blog — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:57:07 GMT

I've been waiting for quite some time for this release. For start, I've been playing a lot with Linq

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

Microsoft XML Team's WebLog — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:26:06 GMT

The Community Technology Preview of the next version of the .NET components that the XML team ships is

The new LINQ to XML “Bridge Classes” to System.Xml

Microsoft XML Team's WebLog — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:06:27 GMT

In a previous post we presented an overview of the XML Features in the "Orcas" Community Technology Preview

nXSLTC - an experimental XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5

Signs on the Sand — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:35:29 GMT

So here is nXSLTC.exe v1.0b - an experimental XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio "Orcas"). Get it here (free open-source). I probably shouldn't be building this tool, but I have my reasons. Why not? As a matter of fact, Mike Champion has announced