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There has (finally) been some hype around VB 9's XML Literal stuff. Cory Smith noticed it, and yesterday, Scott Hanselman blogged about them. Last week I recorded a 2 part episode on LINQ to XML and VB's XML Literals for .Net Rocks TV (DNRTV), and Carl just release the first part. For the first episode, I cover querying XML with LINQ to XML and VB 9, first walking you thru an XPath Example (and all the pain that XPath with namespaces entails), then progressing thru using just LINQ to XML (aka the C# way), and then how to use the XML enhancements in VB 9. I also get to show the cool new XML Editor and Schema Inference in Visual Studio 2008, and how to get intellisense for querying your XML with VB and LINQ to XML. Unfortunately, the CTP for the new XML Schema Designer wasn't ready for these shows, but if you are into XSDs you may want to check out the first drop of the new Schema Designer (you can read about it on the XML Team blog). DEATH to the repurposed Dataset Designer!
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About donxml
I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.