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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. ...

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 12: Calculate the Standard Deviation (Doug Rothaus)

December 18, 2007 Dec 18, 2007 12/18/07
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Ingredients:·         Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ to Objects Introduction:LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 11 showed how you can use LINQ queries to perform calculations on sets of data using a set of standard aggregate functions such as Average, and Sum. In this recipe, ...

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 11: Desktop Search Statistics (Doug Rothaus)

December 13, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 12/13/07
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Ingredients:·        Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ to DataSet Introduction:You can use aggregate functions in LINQ queries to perform calculations on sets of data. Visual Basic includes a set of standard aggregate functions for LINQ queries: All, Any, Average, Count, ...

LINQ Cookbook, Recipe 9: Dynamic Sort Order (Doug Rothaus)

October 17, 2007 Oct 17, 2007 10/17/07
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Ingredients:·         Visual Studio 2008 (Beta2 or Higher) Categories: LINQ-To-XML Introduction:You can use the Order By clause to easily sort the results of a LINQ query in Visual Basic. A common requirement for sorted data, however, is that the user be able to choose the fields that ...