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Article: Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9 (Beth Massi)

June 30, 2008 Jun 30, 2008 06/30/08
Beth Massi
In the July/August issue of CoDe Magazine there's an article I wrote with Avner Aharoni (the Program Manager on XML literals) called Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9. (They just opened up online access to even non-subscribers today!) I highly recommend this article which shows you from the beginning how XML literals, embedded ...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 5: The “Halloween” Problem (Doug Rothaus)

May 8, 2008 May 8, 2008 05/8/08
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In the last two XML cookbook entries, we talked about the technique of using the ReplaceWith method to perform an identity transform. While this technique may meet your needs, it can introduce a problem in your code commonly referred to as the “Halloween” problem. Let’s take a look at what the problem is, and how to solve it. (For ...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 4: Get Inner XML from the Nodes Property (Doug Rothaus)

May 1, 2008 May 1, 2008 05/1/08
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Recipe 3 showed one way to work with mixed XML content using the XML Descendant axis property and the ReplaceWith method. This is one way to do an identity transform and we’ll look at another method in a later post. There is a key capability not mentioned in Recipe 3 that you will need for fully-functioning identity transforms. That is ...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 3: Identity Transforms (Doug Rothaus)

April 25, 2008 Apr 25, 2008 04/25/08
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An identity transform in XSLT does just what the name implies: replace the identity of an element or attribute with a new identity. Identity transforms are especially critical when dealing with XML markup that is less rigid in its structure. Consider a documentation structure for news articles. Whenever a title is referred to within an article...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 2: Descendants and Ancestors (Doug Rothaus)

March 19, 2008 Mar 19, 2008 03/19/08
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This entry in the cookbook shows how you can access descendant and ancestor elements in an XML document using Visual Basic, XML Axis properties, and LINQ to XML objects.DescendantsVisual Basic provides XML Axis properties that enable you to easily refer to child nodes and attributes. As is often the case with XML, you may need to reference sub...

VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 1: XML Transformations using XML Literals (Doug Rothaus)

February 21, 2008 Feb 21, 2008 02/21/08
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I was working on a blog entry about replacing XSLT transforms with Visual Basic XML Literals. As the entry progressed, I noticed that it was really, really long. So, Avner Aharoni and I talked things over and we decided to break it up into multiple entries and start a series, much like the LINQ Cookbook that was started a few months back. ...

Channel 9 Interview: XML Properties and Enabling IntelliSense (Beth Massi)

January 17, 2008 Jan 17, 2008 01/17/08
Beth Massi
Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Avner Aharoni, a Program Manager on the Visual Basic Team. In this interview Avner shows us how to enable XML IntelliSense in Visual Basic using the XML to Schema Wizard. He also shows the differences between how IntelliSense works with axis properties on XDocument and XElement ...

Drawing Maps with Visual Basic (Scott Wisniewski)

November 26, 2007 Nov 26, 2007 11/26/07
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If you find yourself looking for something to do with your awesome new copy of Visual Studio 2008, you should check out the December 2007 edition of MSDN magazine. It features an article, written by me, that provides a walk through on how to visualize data on a map using VB 9, WPF and LINQ. To give you a sneak preview of what the app ...