Microsoft Xml

Remember Microsoft was a bit late on catching the Internet bandwagon and look where they are now.

Microsoft is also not an early adopter of Xml. But here goes some news

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News on Microsoft and XML

• XPS (Xml Paper Specification), formerly called Metro, in WindowsVista aims at PDF market at http://www.betanews.com/article/print/PDC_2005_What_Why_When_and_How/1125338401
• MS hired XML coinventor JeanPaoli comments on XML at http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/69012/microsoft-lights-xml-birthday-candles.html
• Patent granted in 2004 for application submitted years earlier see http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/print.php/3312091
• Microsoft opens up Visio schemas - DatadiagramML see overview at http://xml.coverpages.org/DatadiagramML-200403.doc
• ExtensibleApplicationMarkupLanguage? (Xaml) and its place in WindowsLonghorn see http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/01/19/longhorn.html

The first two seemingly opposing moves have more in common than the word XML suggests. MicrosoftCorporation is in the business to grab marketshare whichever way it can.

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SoapToolkit will be withdrawn by April 2005

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/soaptk/default.aspx

MSXML 4 (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/06/05/msxml4.html) is needed by the SoapToolkit v3.

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System.xml version 2

Do not have much on this, but if you are a VbClassic developer you are out of the loop. See http://www.daveandal.com/books/8391/8391-intro-toc.htm for a glimpse of the future.

Anyone else care to summarize main XML tool changes for the application developer?

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Old reports on Microsoft and Xml

• Y2K article. SOAP was new then http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/08/xml_does_ms_really_have/print.html

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MSXML in practice

• Creating efficient MSXML applications http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/06/efficient.html

• XML developer Guide (MSXML 4) at http://doc.ddart.net/xmlsdk/htm/xml_devgd_overview_91b9.htm

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DotNet Xml resources

Best practices http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml03172004.asp

Do a search on writings by these people

• "Dare Obasanjo"
  • xml design guidelines at http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2004/03/24/95287.aspx

• "Daniel Cazzulino"
  • see entry in XmlPerformance

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MicrosoftIndigo

see Nov2003 "WebServices Sky is 'Indigo'" at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1370405,00.asp?kc=EWRSS02129TX1K0000531

• ServiceOrientedArchitecture the MicrosoftWay

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MicrosoftXml QuickQuestions

Q Does MS shops get to use XmlRpc as a means to develop WebServices applications? If so, does it require DotNet, or some kind of third party bindings? It was said XmlRpc can result in faster, easier to maintain, and better performing Webservices where applicable. I am also interested in ways and means to develop a trial XmlRpc VbClassic application. -- dl

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Q What is this SQLXML animal? There is a website at http://www.sqlxml.org/default.aspx. Is it a FREE Microsoft addon tool for SqlServer?

A ??

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