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Changing XSL StyleSheets on the FLY in C# and ASP.NET

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:13:33 GMT

This article shows you how you can use alter XSL in memory to transform XML data into HTML with different results.

Reading and Wtiting XML Documents

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:13:33 GMT

In this article you will see how to read and write XML documents using XML API available in .NET Framework class library.

XML Serialization in .NET Framework 2.0 : Part II

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:29:06 GMT

This article shows how to create classes that can be Serialized by using XML Serialization.

XML Serialization in .NET Framework 2.0 : Part I

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:27:10 GMT

This article introduces serializing objects to XML format.

Tracking clicks by IP Address using C# and XML

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:10:13 GMT

This is a very simple and easy article, which gives an idea for track the IP address and for getting the number of cliks from a particular system.

XML Driven Validation

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:22:05 GMT

This article/tutorial tells us to develop a generic XML based Validation engine to be used in any Web application.

Role Bases Access using C# and XML

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:36:10 GMT

Here I am trying to give a simple and configurable solution to implement Role Bases Access to your application using C# and XML. Remember that this article intent is to provide Role Based Access and not Role Based Autorization.

Flat File Parsed to XML Using C#

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:53:09 GMT

Here is something really wonderful in Mobile field .This example is for authenticating the Mobile Users against his settings stored in XML file. This is really good where all the ease of XML is applied. Function open the XML file and particular node data validate it against user inputs and do the specified.

Flat File Parsed to XML Using C#

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:48:15 GMT

I ran across an interesting problem today where I had to parse a flat file (csv or tab delimited) into an xml document. The solution I arrived at is flexible enough for reuse so I though I'd share the library along with some of my development notes.

XML Pathfinder - Sample C# Utility to Study XML Paths and XPath Querie

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:31:58 GMT

This article discusses the construction of a simple utility that may be used to locate and evaluate paths within an XML document, and to test queries against those paths.

RIA in Sharepoint: Silverlight with 3D Extended DeepZoom - so cool

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:04:50 GMT

NOTE: There is an interesting contest to find an image in this. Check the post. Long story short, this is an effort to bring RIA to the SharePoint world. But not just RIA style usability, I believe we pushed the envelope even further by incorporating not only DeepZoom (SeaDragon) for 'zoom in to the pixel' resolution, but the 3D extensions not present by default (you have the essentials but only the amazingly talented people behind the Hard Rock Memorabilia site (vertigo) have shown this style of combined zoom/3d that we have seen in any largely deployed sample)

CodeGuru: LINQ to XML

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:20:16 GMT

Nice introductory article on using LINQ to XML. Nice. I don't think I'll ever use the DOM again.

Programming XML with C# & Connecting Data and XML via ADO .NET

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:15:40 GMT

In this article you can see how to work with XML documents with the help of ADO.NET. In this there are two approaches to work with XML and ADO. 1. You can use ADO.NET to access XML documents. 2. You can use ADO.NET and XML to access XML. Apart from this, you can access RDBMS using ADO.NET and XML.NET. First we will see how to read XML using a Dataset Reading XML using a Dataset Normally in ADO.NET, we can access the data using the Dataset class. The Dataset class implements methods and properties to work with XML documents.

How to Create a Firefox Search Plugin (Extension)

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:28:09 GMT

The Firefox browser (as of version 3.0.2 and likely earlier versions), there is a search bar at the top right. Custom search engine plugins are available to allow easier searching. For this example, I will demonstrate how to create search engine for the search engine Scour. We will begin with a template which should be copy and pasted into an xml file (in our case, it will be scour.xml).

First version of XQSharp (XQuery for the .NET framework) released

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:00:52 GMT

XQSharp is an efficient, standards-compliant implementation of XQuery for the .NET framework. XQSharp 0.9 Technical Preview has just been released and is available as a free download.

Exploring Oslo's Modeling Language Promises

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:34:37 GMT

Microsoft is sharing bits of Oslo at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week. Learn what's new in M, the company's language for creating domain-specific languages, and why Microsoft thinks it's such a big deal.

.NET - Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part I

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Very good overview of how to query using LINQ to XML

Passing XPathNavigator through XsltArgumentList in C#

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:48:28 GMT

How to use XPathNavigators inside your xslt as a quick utility for node lists that are not part of your core transform.

GetAttribute Generics way.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:41:55 GMT

Generic method to get attribute from XML.

Different ways how to escape an XML string in C#

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:43:42 GMT

XML encoding is necessary if you have to save XML text in an XML document. If you don't escape special chars the XML to insert will become a part of the original XML DOM and not a value of a node. Here are 4 ways of doing this that you may or may not know.

Database Driven XmlDataSource

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:12:29 GMT

I saw a question on Twitter a couple of days ago asking for an easy to use Menu control for ASP.NET. I responded by asking what was wrong with the one that is built into ASP.NET 2.0 and above? I never got a satisfactory answer. The only real problem I've had with either the Menu control or the Tree control in .NET is that both of them expect an XMLDataSource. But, what if you want to generate the information from data in a database?

Convert your documents to XPS with 1 line of code.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:50:46 GMT

A C# development component for converting documents into XPS. It consists of a custom XPS printer driver and an XPS conversion library.

Storing an Image in an XML file

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:32:12 GMT

"I recently had a project that required a custom subset of data from a database be stored in an XML file. Each "row" of data also had a related image on a separate server. The project required that both the data and the image be transferred to a client for subsequent consumption by another program."

Eric White's Blog : Announcing the First CTP of Open XML SDK V2

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:05:27 GMT

Today, the development team for the Open XML SDK has announced that they have released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of version 2 of the Open XML SDK.

Use INFER.EXE to Create XML Schemas

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:47:34 GMT

In my post, OpenXmlCodeTester: Validating Code in Open XML Documents I used XSD to validate the build instructions (which are XML that you place in content controls). INFER.EXE, available at XML Downloads, is your best friend for putting together schemas. This isn't news, but I was chatting with one of my dev friends here at Microsoft, and he wasn't aware of the existence of this tool, so I'm calling attention to it. Its use couldn't be simpler - create a directory, put examples of all varieties of your XML documents to validate in the directory, CD to the directory, and run INFER.EXE. It outputs a schema that correctly specifies if attributes or elements can be repeated, if they are optional, etc.: