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.NET 3.0, formerly known as WinFx, uses XAML for describing and building object graphs. Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon), for example, uses XAML for building the next generation user interfaces. In this article we will look at the XAML syntax (which is a lot more than simply XML) by building a maze sample, such as can be found in old-fashioned adventure games like Zork, etc... Please note that this article is not about Windows Presentation Foundation, it is all about XAML and how you can use it for your own applications. Some examples will use WPF when appropriate, but only to explain some of the concepts.

In this installment of Service Station, Aaron Skonnard takes a long hard look at System.Xml 2.0.

Learn what .NET 2.0 offers you to read/write App.Config files

InfoPath 2007 is an XML forms designer and editor, and a fully featured and integrated member of the Office family. This article takes a sneak peek at some of its new features.

CustomXmlSerializer is an alternative to XmlSerializer supporting ArrayLists, Collections, and Dictionaries.

In SQL Server 2005, XML becomes a first-class data type. Developers can make minor remote modifications to stored XML documents easily, taking advantage of new support for XML schema-based strong typing, and server-based XML data validation.

A library for compressing XML content suitable for mobile devices.

This is a technique describing how to create node-tree-fragments in XSLT using C#. Additionally, this aritcle describes how to use C# in XSLT.

How to serialize and de-serialize .Net objects and XML using the XmlSerializer and the serializer attributes.

Learn how to serialize object trees into SOAP and back again.