May 18, 2005

Jonathan Marsh is blogging

Jonathan Marsh, who is one of Microsoft's representatives at the W3C, an editor of XML Base, XPointer, XInclude, xml:id, some XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 specs and is by the way the original author of the defaultss.xsl which is used in Internet Explorer to display XML documents, is blogging. His ...

70-320 exam: passed

Well, I recently decided I need to be an MCAD. That requires to pass three exams. I passed one (70-315) in December and yesterday I went for a second one - 70-320 (Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework). Should admit ...

May 16, 2005

System.Xml 2.0: XmlReader is now IDisposabe

Another handy feature implemented in .NET 2.0 Beta2 is that XmlReader class now implements IDisposable interface and so can be closed automatically when using with "using" statement in C#: using (XmlReader r = XmlReader.Create("../../source.xml")) { while (r.Read()) Console.WriteLine(r.NodeType); } Really handy. And implemented in literally couple of lines. It's a ...