MSDN Magazine: The XML Files

All MSDN Magazine Columns

• The XML Files: InfoPath 2003 SP1 Preview
  Aaron Skonnard - June 2004

• The XML Files: XML Data Migration Case Study: GEDCOM
  Aaron Skonnard - May 2004

• The XML Files: All About Blogs and RSS
  Aaron Skonnard - April 2004

• The XML Files: WS-Policy and WSE 2.0 Assertion Handlers
  Aaron Skonnard - March 2004

• The XML Files: XML Report from the Microsoft PDC 2003
  Aaron Skonnard - February 2004

• The XML Files: IntelliSense for XSLT, Namespace Collisions, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - January 2004

• The XML Files: A Survey of Publicly Available Web Services at Microsoft
  Aaron Skonnard - December 2003

• The XML Files: XML in Microsoft Office Word 2003
  Aaron Skonnard - November 2003

• The XML Files: OPENXML, XSLT Keys, Select versus Match, XPath, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - October 2003

• The XML Files: Introducing the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 Messaging API
  Aaron Skonnard - September 2003

• The XML Files: XSLT Keys, Select vs. Match, Conflict Resolution, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - August 2003
  This month Aaron Skonnard covers how keys work in XSLT, XSLT match and select attributes, SelectNodes order, finding <script> tags, XSLT pattern matching, xsl:include and xsl:import, xsl:if, and xsl:output.

• The XML Files: Dynamic Discovery in .NET, Codebehind, WebService Inheritance, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - August 2002

• The XML Files: A Quick Guide to XML Schema-Part 2
  Aaron Skonnard - July 2002

• The XML Files: WS-I, Exposing Stored Procedures as Web Services, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - June 2002

• The XML Files: XSLT Processing, Processing Instructions in XML, Parameterizing Statements in XML, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - May 2002

• The XML Files: A Quick Guide to XML Schema
  Aaron Skonnard - April 2002

• The XML Files: Extending XSLT with JScript, C#, and Visual Basic .NET
  Aaron Skonnard - March 2002

• The XML Files: Publishing and Discovering Web Services with DISCO and UDDI
  Aaron Skonnard - February 2002

• The XML Files: Object Graphs, XPath, String Comparisons, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - January 2002

• The XML Files: What's New in MSXML 4.0
  Aaron Skonnard - December 2001

• The XML Files: Writing XML Providers for Microsoft .NET
  Aaron Skonnard - September 2001

• The XML Files: Understanding XML Namespaces
  Aaron Skonnard - July 2001

• The XML Files: XML Encoding, DTDs and Namespaces, Binary Data, Namespace Identifiers, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - May 2001

• The XML Files: SAX, the Simple API for XML
  Aaron Skonnard - November 2000

• The XML Files: MSXML 3.0 Supports XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, XDR, and SAX2
  Aaron Skonnard - September 2000

• The XML Files: Addressing Infosets with XPath
  Aaron Skonnard - July 2000

• The XML Files: XPath, XSLT, and other XML Specifications
  Aaron Skonnard - May 2000

• The XML Files: XML-based Persistence Behaviors Fix Web Farm Headaches
  Aaron Skonnard - March 2000

• The XML Files: XML Namespace Collisions, XmlNodeList and Deserialization, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - July 2003

• The XML Files: Advanced Type Mappings
  Aaron Skonnard - June 2003
  Can XmlSerializer deal with choice compositors? How about mixed content models? XmlSerializer won't serialize objects that implement IDictionary by default, so how do you get arount it? And more.

• The XML Files: Web Services Encoding and More
  Aaron Skonnard - May 2003
  Aaron Skonnard covers the difference between document/literal and rpc/encoded Web Services and the history behind them.

• The XML Files: Web Services and DataSets
  Aaron Skonnard - April 2003
  Programmers using Visual Basic® 6. 0 have long bowed to the altar of the ADO recordset. It's probably the most commonly used data structure in Windows®-based applications today. The ADO. NET DataSet is poised to play a similar role in the realm of managed Windows-based applications.

• The XML Files: Merging XML Files, Schema Validation, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - March 2003

• The XML Files: XPath Selections and Custom Functions, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - February 2003

• The XML Files: Introducing XPath 2.0
  Aaron Skonnard - January 2003
  Over two years ago in one of the first installments of this column, I wrote about XPath version 1. 0 (see The XML Files: Addressing Infosets with XPath for a quick review). As stated in the original specification: "XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document.

• The XML Files: WSDL, Web Services, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - December 2002

• The XML Files: WebMethod Validation, SOAP Validation, XmlSerializer, One-way Operations, and More
  Aaron Skonnard - November 2002

• The XML Files: The Birth of Web Services
  Aaron Skonnard - October 2002
  The XML technology receiving the most attention these days is Web Services. Web Services is a term commonly used to describe an entire new breed of applications. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees on what that breed is.

• The XML Files: WS-Security, WebMethods, Generating ASP.NET Web Service Classes
  Aaron Skonnard - September 2002

• The XML Files: What's New in WSE 2.0
  Aaron Skonnard - August 2004
  Microsoft has recently released Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft® . NET (WSE) 2. 0. WSE 2. 0 provides extensions to the existing ASP. NET Web services framework (. asmx) as well as a standalone messaging framework that's completely transport independent.

• The XML Files: Messages vs. Methods
  Aaron Skonnard - July 2004