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Serialize and Deserialize your objects with ease and simplicity

Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. This article introduces a very simple, general-purpose, native XML index called VTD+XML that eliminates the need for repetitive parsing of those applications.

With Visual Basic 9.0, working with XML gets much easier for developers. Here's a look at some of the new features, including LINQ support, XML literals, embedded expressions, XML properties, and XML Schema IntelliSense.

This article presents an advanced technique that lets you bind multiple editable line items to a collection using Windows Presentation Foundation and the Presentation Model pattern. It assumes you are familiar with basic WPF data binding techniques as well as design patterns that object-oriented UI libraries typically use. After an introduction to the sample application used throughout this article, you'll see how applying the Presentation Model pattern insulates this application's UI and business logic layers from one another. Finally, you'll see the WPF-specific details involved in binding a Presentation Model to XAML controls to create a dynamic UI with multiple editable line items.

Extensible Application Markup Language or XAML is a new declarative language that is used in Windows Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation. Introduced with .NET Framework 3.0, XAML is harbinger of declarative (in contrast with imperative using coding) programming model. In Workflow Foundation, workflows can be created using code as well as XAML. Even fully XAML-based solutions are possible with no code at all! This not only gives flexibility of no-compilation-needed to applications, it also opens up a window of possibility for entirely non-technical persons (like business analysts) to design workflows..

An article introducing Oracle's Berkeley XML Database and the command shell

An article on using XML in a lazy way

How to server XML from SQL2005 through a WebService

A simple to use wrapper class for reading and writing configuration xml files

This new column explores how you can extend and customize Microsoft Office System applications and file formats.