If you are not familiar with the new LINQ syntax in .NET 3.5 I recommend you read up on that first. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is the new foundation for querying anything (I mean anything) in .NET and a lot of effort has been put into LINQ and XML integration. I did some research a few months back on it but it was only recently that I realized how much Microsoft put into LINQ to XML. I am a huge fan of intellisense. That is the best thing that MS ever perfected in Studio. I spend a lot of time...

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Anyone using XML in .NET projects is probably aware of the several options available for working with XML within the .NET Framework (which I will tell you up front - I am a huge fan, nay, a cheerleader for .NET). .NET provides a full set of classes to work with XML data and XML schemas. With the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 there are several new ways to work with XML using LINQ and many improvements to working with XML schemas (Intellisense support, etc). The last few projects I did...

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My name is Chris and I spend most of my days for my employer working on a myriad of projects and systems in the criminal justice arena. I work mainly in .NET (VB to be specific) but I am no longer afraid of things like C# and Java. Somewhere along the line I told someone I knew something about XML too. Most of my days are split between being a "product/project leader" for one of our mobile solutions and also as the interfaces guy. I get to spend a lot of my interface guy time lecturing about SOA,...

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