{"id":3473,"date":"2008-11-25T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2008\/11\/25\/panel-developers-moving-to-vb-net-for-projects-using-xml-lisa-feigenbaum\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:36:49","slug":"panel-developers-moving-to-vb-net-for-projects-using-xml-lisa-feigenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/panel-developers-moving-to-vb-net-for-projects-using-xml-lisa-feigenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel: Developers moving to VB.Net for projects using XML (Lisa Feigenbaum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbteam\/archive\/2008\/06\/30\/article-sharpening-your-axis-with-visual-basic-9-beth-massi.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XML Literals<\/a>, which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much easier that&nbsp;many C# developers are moving to VB.Net for their XML work! To learn more about this phenomenon, watch the following panel from TechEd US, entitled: <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/emea\/teched2008\/developer\/tv\/default.aspx?vid=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Dim&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called&nbsp;XML Literals, which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much easier that&nbsp;many C# developers are moving to VB.Net for their XML work! To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[40,95,151,166,185],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-member-interviews","category-visual-basic","tag-beth-massi","tag-lisa-feigenbaum","tag-teched2008","tag-vb2008","tag-xml"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Visual Basic 9.0 introduces a feature called&nbsp;XML Literals, which makes programming against XML a lot more natural, and dramatically decreases the number of lines of code you need to write. In fact, it makes working with XML in Visual Basic *so* much easier that&nbsp;many C# developers are moving to VB.Net for their XML work! To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}