A group blog from members of the VB team
June 9, 2010Jun 9, 201006/9/10A common problem that one often runs into with XML literals and the LINQ to XML API is duplicate XML namespaces. Consider the following example. The code imports a default XML namespace – “hello”.
Code: Imports <xmlns=“hello“>
Module Module1 Sub Main()
June 7, 2010Jun 7, 201006/7/10VB XML Cookbook, Recipe 7: Enumerating Large XML Files (Doug Rothaus)
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these XML cookbook entries. Here’s some info on a common problem: Really big XML files.
I’m going to show you two things in this recipe.
May 24, 2010May 24, 201005/24/10One of the common use-cases of XML literals is creating HTML. However, HTML entities cannot be used in XML literals since LINQ to XML directly supports only the Data type definitions (DTD) defined in the XML 1.0 spec. You can read more about it here.
March 26, 2010Mar 26, 201003/26/10The implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010 provided an opportunity to improve the code editing experience in XML literals embedded expressions. In Visual Studio 2008, pressing Enter inside an embedded expression would result in the cursor being positioned to the left of the end embedded expression tag.
January 20, 2010Jan 20, 201001/20/10A
while back, I remember being asked if there was a simple way to expose a source XML document as an object with properties. That is, if the root XML element had a child element <Name>Doug</Name>, then the object would have a Name property that was a string and returned “Doug”.
November 7, 2009Nov 7, 200911/7/09In this post, I’ll continue on with coding the new playlist shuffler. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, I highly recommend it so that this post will make more sense. J
Code for the controls (continued)
The Title TextBox
When the title changes,
November 6, 2009Nov 6, 200911/6/09Way back in October 2007, I wrote up a few posts (here and here) on my experiments with the Windows Media Player object model. The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to “shuffle,”
May 2, 2009May 2, 200905/2/09Steele wrote a great article in last month’s issue of Visual Studio Magazine on XML Literals, WCF and LINQ. He shows how to use these three technologies together to produce more responsive ASP.NET pages, and more readable code. Lots of great tips for VB 2008.
May 1, 2009May 1, 200905/1/09Beth Massi shot a couple of great episodes last month on dnrTV! If you are interested in learning more about the Open XML SDK, and how to easily access it using VB.NET XML Literals, be sure to check them out.
dnrTV Show #137: Beth Massi on the Open XML SDK Our good friend Beth Massi returns to dnrTV to introduce us to the Open XML SDK,
April 29, 2009Apr 29, 200904/29/09Hi,
I posted a bit of code the other day which I used to get a list of all Code Snippets we ship in Visual Studio. In a nutshell, I used XElement.Load to create a new XML document from a filename from which I then read elements from (There are way to many ‘”from”
