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Every now and again I revisit my obsession with data-binding to XML data and Silverlight and this is one of those posts. Now, to be fair, this was prompted by chatting to Rich who pointed me at one of my old blog posts about binding to XML data; “Silverlight and XML Binding” which I fully accept has...
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I’ll start by saying that this is just a sketchy idea around data-binding Silverlight to XML data. I’ve had other sketchy ideas on this topic in the past . I was listening to Ian talk about WPF 4.0 at the UK TechDays event last Thursday and one of the things he mentioned was around the ability of WPF...
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Just a quick plug – tomorrow evening I’m doing a session on ADO.NET Data Services (“Astoria”) at the SQL Server User’s Group at Microsoft, Reading. See here for details; http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/167/Sessions-on-Understanding-ADONET-Data-Services-Windows-7-features-indepth-and-the-usual-SQL-Nuggets...
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Tantalising post from the Astoria team.
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A new version of the LINQ to XSD preview that works with Visual Studio 2008. Get the details from here . If you're not so sure on what LINQ to XSD is all about it's essentially for the people who see some LINQ to XML code and say; "But how come the LINQ to XML code has all those ugly strings and casts...
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Something I've been pondering. Living over in System.Xml.XPath is an extension method to XNode (from LINQ to XML) called CreateNavigator . So, given something like an XElement ; XElement x = new XElement( "foo" ); I can go ahead and get an XPathNavigator from it; XElement x = new XElement( "foo" ); XPathNavigator...
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LINQ to XML and the XML API that underpins it contained in the System.Xml.Linq namespace is essentially a DOM-like API. This means that documents are loaded into memory to form a "tree" representation and that act of loading into memory means that the bigger the document you have, the more memory you...