18 May 2011 0 Comments

Hierarchical Tree View–a FREE Solution

In case you aren’t aware, Silverlight and JavaScript Web Resources support the SOAP service(Organization.svc) of CRM 2011 in addition to the REST service(OrganizationData.svc). For more details, see here . SOAP service provides additional capabilities that are currently not present in the REST service

31 March 2010 0 Comments

MSXML 4 SP2 goes out of support in April

Learn more about SP2 going out of support on the XML team blog. MSXML4 SP3 has been around for over a year now and has had a very positive reception. Get it! Share the good news with your friends! Of course, we’re still encouraging everyone to migration to MSXML6 whenever possible, as that’s our best-by-default implementation

1 March 2010 0 Comments

Performance tips of using XML data in SQL Server

Author: Kun Cheng Reviewers: Peter Carlin, Mike Ruthruff, Thomas Kejser, Nicholas Dritsas XML data type is usually used to store semi-structured data with great flexibility and query capabilities. It’s a good choice for developing platform agnostic applications to separate storage of complex data from processing at application layer, which understands the complex data relationship

21 January 2010 0 Comments

Writing Entity References using LINQ to XML

I need to write out some XHtml, and in several places, I want that XHtml to contain entities references.

31 August 2009 0 Comments

Problems when installing SQL Server 2005 on an upgraded Windows XP SP3 with MSXML6 SP2

As mentioned in the SQL Server Support Blog , you may find an issue installing SQL Server 2005 if you install MSXML Core Services 6.0 Service Pack 2 on Windows XP SP2, then upgrade to Windows XP SP3, then try the SQL install. Check out that post for more details, along with the KB for the problem

15 August 2009 0 Comments

Introducción a Generic Handlers en ASP.NET

Un Generic Handler (GH) es una clase de objeto .NET que puede procesar http requests, sin necesidad de estar dentro del scope de una página aspx (que está dirigida a presentar salidas de tipo HTML clásico). Un ejemplo de GH es el HTTP Handler

30 July 2009 0 Comments

I !(heart) Rails

Ruby on Rails does some nifty things, trying to lull you into a false sense of submission – and then it springs this on you. For those unfamiliar with the glory and the horror that is RoR, let me enlighten you..

23 July 2009 0 Comments

Understanding WS-Discovery

Da oggi e per i prossimi mesi ogni tanto ospiterò dei post scritti da alcuni colleghi/amici di Microsoft affinchè possano raccontare un po’ della loro expertise e competenza tecnica ottenuta durante le tante attività di consulenza e di supporto sul campo. Ovviamente il tema sarà sempre inerente le architetture applicative e la sicurezza… In questo post iniziamo con Alessio Mannelli (nella foto, l’unica decente che ho trovato :-) !  Non è la prima volta che parla su questo “canale”… vi ricordate quell’Alessio Mannelli con il quale quasi un anno fa facemmo un video dove spiegava il funzionamento dei Security Token Services ?

20 July 2009 0 Comments

A Tutorial in the Recursive Approach to Pure Functional Transformations of XML

Writing pure functional transformations a in a recursive style enables us to put together interesting transformations in a very small amount of code.   Using some specific techniques that allow us to write this code very concisely, this approach takes advantage of some perhaps obscure semantics of LINQ to XML.   I’ve used this approach to write some interesting transformations – it has become my favorite way to write transformations of a certain variety

10 July 2009 0 Comments

Improving XslCompiledTransform performance.

Imagine this scenario, you have some xml files that you wish to transform to html files, this is done by using xsl files. This you think is a bit slow (even though what “slow” is, is different from person to person J ).   So, how do we do this

7 July 2009 0 Comments

Empty Elements and Self-Closing Tags

Last January, I blogged about an approach to normalizing LINQ to XML trees .

2 June 2009 0 Comments

Presentación: IE8 y estándares web

Hace algunas semanas preparé para un evento de instalación de Internet Explorer 8 una presentación que en muchos sentidos fue mas un condensado de información que ya tenía en este blog, en otras presentaciones y en ejemplos y demos sobre cómo crear sitios compatibles con Internet Explorer 8 . Dado que IE8 está enfocado de forma muy particular a los estándares web actuales propuestos por la W3C y otros grupos como Web Standards Project y A List Apart , crear un sitio compatible con IE8 significa crear un sitio que se apegue a estos estándares