| .NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now |
| MSDN |
| 10 Tools you can use to make your development easier, faster and more fun! |
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| Advanced Basics: Digital Grandma |
| MSDN |
| Duncan shows you how to build a client application that pulls down new images from a web server onto his mother's machine to give her the functionality of a 'digital photo frame'. |
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| Building a Custom Data Provider for Use with the .NET Data Access Framework |
| MSDN |
| The System.Data.dll assembly in the .NET Framework contains namespaces whose base classes can be used to create custom data providers. These namespaces also define a number of data access interfaces and base classes that let developers create data providers that will interoperate with other custom providers. Using the ADO.NET classes Connection, Command, DataReader, and DataAdapter, writing a provider is easier than writing one for OLE DB. This article explains these classes and their implementation, and how they can be used to write a variety of different kinds of data providers. |
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| Building Practical Solutions with EXSLT |
| MSDN |
| Oleg Tkachenko shows how to make XML programming easier, and explains how to boost your productivity using XSLT and XPath extensions provided by the EXSLT.NET library. |
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| Code Generation in the .NET Framework Using XML Schema |
| MSDN |
| Learn the difference between typed datasets and classes generated by the xsd.exe tool. Extend this process by reusing the infrastructure classes supporting it, staying compatible with the XmlSerializer. |
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| Custom Objects From the App.Config file |
| The Code Project |
| Defining custom objects in the App.Config file, and retrieving them via the IConfigurationSectionHandler Interface. |
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| Data Access Support in Visual Studio.NET (Whidbey) |
| DotNetJunkies |
| Within this is an overview of the data access support in ADO.NET, covered by the System.Data and System.Xml namespaces. This white paper details the innovations and enhancements in the data access layer in Whidbey when retrieving data from data sources, particularly SQL Server. It covers the growth of ADO.NET in Whidbey to encompass the relational, object and XML data models, and explains typical usage scenarios for each with development guidelines and recommendations. |
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| Exposing Proprietary Data the .NET Way |
| MSDN |
| The .NET Framework comes with the OLE DB managed provider, which is meant to be a bridge that gives you immediate access to all the existing OLE DB providers. This component saves your current investments, as applications can continue successfully calling into existing OLE DB providers. The point, though, is another. In .NET, exposing proprietary data requires a more thoughtful choice, mostly because you have multiple and equally powerful options from which to choose.
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| Generating String Resource Accessors for .NET |
| The Code Project |
| This article presents a utility written in Visual Basic .NET that generates a C# or VB.NET source file from a .resx or .resources file. The resulting class enables compile-time checking of resource string identifier names and the numbers of format items. |
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| How to specify fully qualified element names in XPath queries by using Visual C++ .NET |
| http://www.kbalertz.com/ |
| (815677) - The step-by-step article describes how to specify fully-qualified element names in the NamespacePrefix:ElementName format to select nodes in an XmlDocument object. back to the top Create the XML file Paste the following XML code in Notepad, or a text... |
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| How to specify fully qualified element names in XPath queries by using Visual C++ .NET |
| Microsoft Support |
| (815677) - The step-by-step article describes how to specify fully-qualified element names in the NamespacePrefix:ElementName format to select nodes in an XmlDocument object. back to the top Create the XML file Paste the following XML code in Notepad, or a text... |
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| How to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications in Visual C++ .NET 2003 |
| http://www.kbalertz.com/ |
| (815671) - XML is a fundamental part of Microsoft ADO.NET and XML Web Services. This article describes how to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications: Connected ADO.NET applications can query Microsoft SQL Server to return an XML result and... |
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| How to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications in Visual C++ .NET 2003 |
| http://www.kbalertz.com/ |
| (815671) - XML is a fundamental part of Microsoft ADO.NET and XML Web Services. This article describes how to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications: Connected ADO.NET applications can query Microsoft SQL Server to return an XML result and... |
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| HOW TO: Navigate XML with the XPathNavigator Class by Using Visual C# .NET |
| http://www.kbalertz.com/ |
| (308343) - This step-by-step article describes how to navigate Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents with an XPathNavigator object that is created from an XPathDocument object. This sample loads an XPathDocument object with XML data, creates an... |
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| HOW TO: Specify Fully Qualified Element Names in XPath Queries Using Visual Basic .NET (Q308062) |
| http://www.kbalertz.com/ |
| When you use the |
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| HOW TO: Specify Fully Qualified Element Names in XPath Queries Using Visual Basic .NET (Q308062) |
| Microsoft Support |
| When you use the |
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| HOW TO: Use XML in Connected and Disconnected ADO.NET Applications (Q307224) |
| Microsoft Support |
| This article demonstrates how to use XML in connected and disconnected ADO.NET applications. Connected ADO.NET applications can query SQL Server to return an XML result and then use the XmlReader class to iterate through the rows of XML data. Disconnected ADO.NET applications can use a DataSet object to pass data in XML format between the different tiers in a distributed system. |
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| Implementing XmlReader Classes for Non-XML Data Structures and Formats |
| MSDN |
| Developers can create a notation for any data structure using only elements and attributes, and can access any data structure with an XmlReader or XmlDocument—as long as they can "translate" it to XML. |
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| Programmatically using ADO.NET and XML |
| The Code Project |
| With ADO.NET, a database can be regarded as a virtual XML document. XPath query and XSLT transformation are naturally available. |
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| Reading and Writing XML Documents |
| C# Corner |
| In this article you will see how to read and write XML documents in Microsoft .NET using C# language. First I will discuss XML .NET Framework Library namespace and classes in brief. Then we will read and write XML documents. At the end of this article, I will show you how to take advantage of ADO.NET and XML .NET model to read and write XML documents from relational databases and vice versa. |
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| Reading, Storing and Transforming XML Data in .NET |
| DotNetJunkies |
| This article illustrates a mixture of common .NET methods for formatting and presenting in a readable fashion any XML document you may encounter. The latest hype with XML Web Services and even the .NET Framework itself relies on XML as its backbone, therefore this is no light matter. |
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| Resolving the Unknown: Building Custom XmlResolvers in the .NET Framework |
| MSDN |
| Get under the hood of the XmlResolver class in System.Xml and review how to create your own implementations of XmlResolvers that allow you to retrieve XML documents from alternative data sources. |
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| Squarified Treemaps in XAML & C# using Microsoft Longhorn |
| The Code Project |
| Data Visualisation using Squarified Treemaps |
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| Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005 |
| MSDN |
| Compare CLR-based programming models with SQL Server models such as Transact SQL and extended stored procedures. Get tips on how to choose a model, code samples, and more. |
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| What's New in System.Xml for Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Release |
| MSDN |
| Enhance XML support in your applications with the XML APIs in System.Xml and the .NET Framework 2.0. |
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