One of the goals of a large state-wide multi-agency data sharing project my organization is participating in was to start with a partner designed WSDL and then implement it in the underlying technology of the partner's choice. For my organization this technology is Windows Communication Foundation. From it's inception the WSDL had to be simple and interoperable. This is the second time I had started with a WSDL and then created a conformant service. My organization was one of the few that actually...

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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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