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As the name suggests it provides a foundation for XML support in an application, however this is much more than just another XML parser. It applies a unique approach to handling XML that allows your application code to focus on the application rather than traversing DOM or subscribing to SAX events

An XML serialization library which lets developers design the XML file structure, and select the exception handling policy. This library also supports serializing most of the collection classes such as the Dictionary generic class.

XML Literals allow you to use XML syntax in your code. It’s easy to work with XML files this way, since you have that Tags in the code, but it’s also quicker to access information rather then the traditional methods.

This article introduces a simple XML document viewer control for WPF applications to display XML documents in a formatted way.

Visual Basic 9 completely eliminates the barrier between the code you write and the XML you're trying to express. Creating, querying, and transforming XML is much more intuitive and productive than ever before.

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..