XmlConvert helps to verify valid XML characters

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One of my popular past entries is Working around invalid characters in XML. I don't know if folks actually search for this, but it's certainly something that I point them to when I want to help them understand the space a bit better.

If you've downloaded the Visual Studio Beta, you'll notice that the .NET Framework beta has a new method in XmlConvert (among a few others): IsXmlChar. This allows you to look at a character and decide whether it's valid or not. Some of the other new methods include checking for valid surrogate pairs or complete strings.

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