Channel 9 - Entries tagged with XML

Happy 15th Birthday, XML!

Doug Mahugh — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:36:54 GMT

A birthday greeting from Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and Co-Creator of XML 1.0 @ W3C.

Web Standards: How to use XMLHttpRequest

Roxanne Beaver — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:17:35 GMT

Learn about the great new HTML5 features available in Internet Explorer 10. This video focuses on how you can use HTML5 to enhance your client-server communications.

For more information please see the topics at:

Update your site to Web Standards

D³: Start Something with Windows Phone

Jonathan Rozenblit, Atley Hunter — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:53:04 GMT

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Jonathan challenges Atley Hunter to show how a .NET developer can use the knowledge and skills he or she already has and the tools he or she already knows to create Windows Phone applications.

RESOURCES

Starting Something is Easy

ATLEY HUNTER
Atley Hunter is a passionate mobile developer with over 15 years' experience. As one of the most prolific developers for the platform, he has more than 50 apps developed. He has also created the Lazy Library which promotes even faster app development on the already short development time of .NET.

Atley is constantly looking for ways to share his knowledge, passion and experience with the developer community though events, his blog and social media including email, Twitter and LinkedIn.

D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
Tune in to Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of development; featured presentations; and guests. LIVE and INTERACTIVE means that you'll be part of the show - You're invited to interact with us; ask questions and get them answered; and share your thoughts and opinions - all LIVE.

ScriptTD: So You Want To Build a Tower Defense Game?

Larry Larsen — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:50:33 GMT

As you may have heard me say before, I love Tower Defense games. In fact, I've always wanted to build one or two but the main problem is that I'm better with ideas than programming. On the other hand, TD games are all very similar—creeps go in, creeps (try to) go out. Meanwhile you try your best to build a maze of defensive towers that make sure no creep is left standing. The biggest difference between many TD games is graphics and gameplay. From this the ScriptTD Tower Defense Game Engine was born. Under the patient shepherding of Coding4Fun's Clint Rutkas and with the coding prowess of Michael Quandt, we built this game engine that will let you tweak some graphics, sounds, and XML to make any kind of Tower Defense game you can dream up. If you thought you couldn't make a Windows Phone game, you're probably wrong.

After you hit http://ScriptTD.CodePlex.com for the source code, this tutorial will walk you through each of the XML files that make up ScriptTD and how they should be tweaked to create your own TD game. You are free to submit your game to the Zune Marketplace and hopefully make a little lunch money. If you make a game from ScriptTD, please let me know so I can help get the word out.

To get started with ScriptTD, please check out the ScriptTD Coding4Fun project and download the code from Codeplex, and to try playing the game on your Windows Phone, visit the Zune Marketplace.

What's New: SharePoint 2010 -- Customizing the Ribbon

John Wiese — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:05:00 GMT

What's New: SharePoint 2010 is a series of screencasts centered on what is new in SharePoint 2010 for developers. My goal is to highlight a majority of the major new features that are of interest to developers and help you get started building solutions on those features.

In this episode I am going to discuss customizing the Ribbon interface by adding your own tabs, groups and buttons with backing javascript commands.

Episode List:

Episode 1: Installing on Windows 7
Episode 2: Sandboxed Solutions
Episode 3: Silverlight Solutions with the Client Object Model
Episode 4: Customizing the SharePoint Ribbon
Episode 5: Searching External Repositories using BCS
Episode 6: Word Automation Services via Workflow
Episode 7: The Developer Dashboard

msdn tv Spezial - Interview mit Jean Paoli

Jan Schenk — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:04:00 GMT

In diesem Interview hat msdn tv die Chance bekommen, mit Jean Paoli, Co-Creator von XML und mittlerweile Chef-Interop-Stratege bei Microsoft, zu sprechen.

Interoperabiltät ist einer der Schlüssel für erfolgreiche Geschäftsideen im Internet und im besten Fall unsichtbar. Was aber nicht bedeutet, dass Interop auch immer unproblematisch ist. Entwickler haben oft einen schweren Stand, wenn es darum geht, mehrere Technologien zu verheiraten. Warum das gerade bei Cloud Computing wichtig ist, und wie die Windows Azure Plattform mit der Interop-Strategie im Blick gestaltet wurde, erklärt Jean Paoli, der beim Entwurf der Plattform massgeblich beteiligt war.

msdn tv took the chance to interview Jean Paoli, co-creator of XML and chief interoperability strategist at Microsoft.

Interoperability is one of the keys to success in internet business. Assuming an ideal case, interop is invisible. Which doesn't mean that it is always easy to implement. Developers often face certain difficulties in combining different technologies, which is, regarding cloud computing, more crucial than ever to building applications. Jean Paoli was one of the key persons, when it came to designing the Windows Azure Platform, which was then, by design, built to be interoperable from its first day. In this interview, he tells us how and why.

msdn tv ist ein neues Video-Nachrichtenformat, und hat seinen Ursprung auf MSDN Online (http://www.msdn-online.de/msdntv/). Alle zwei Wochen präsentiert Ihnen Jan Schenk, Developer Evangelist mit Hut, die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten für Entwickler, Hintergrundberichte und Interviews zu aktuellen Technologien sowie Highlights von Messen und Konferenzen. Das ganze kompakt, in ca. 15 Minuten erfrischend jung verpackt , und sowohl als Download für Ihren Rechner oder im Online-Player per Streaming verfügbar.

msdn tv is a German-speaking new and innovative video news series, and has originally been featured exclusively on the German MSDN Online Platform (http://www.msdn-online.de/msdntv/). Hatted Developer Evangelist Jan Schenk biweekly presents latest news for developers, background-stories and interviews concerning current and upcoming technologies, as well as video-highlights from fairs and conferences. Packed into 15 minutes, these news videos feature a fresh informative style, and are downloadable as well as available as online streaming video.

ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic XML Literals

Beth Massi — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:13:00 GMT

In this interview Dmitry Robsman, the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, shows us how he implemented ASP.NET MVC views using Visual Basic's XML Literals instead of .aspx pages. He shows us how this makes coding the views much cleaner using standard OOP principals. He also makes some very interesting observations about DSLs and Visual Basic XML literals. You can download the code Dmitry shows in the interview from his blog here.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

geekSpeak recording: Inside LINQ to XML with Paul Sheriff

glengo — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:07:26 GMT

In this geekSpeak, Paul Sheriff focuses on LINQ to XML and reveals lots of tips for getting up to speed with it. We loved seeing the new techniques for building XML documents using the XDocument type that are tremendous time savers. He helps us understand what is LINQ, what’s LINQ to XML, and what are the new XML handling capabilities of VB and C#. He shows a nice example of LINQ to SQL output with XML literals interleaved, as well as an actual LINQ to XML query that comes back with (surprise) XML.

Paul also addresses some of the why, where and when XML, which is something many of us face. He shows us how he uses XML for prototyping very quickly. Also Paul shares some simple yet great techniques he uses to keep his team members up to date on skills.

Other tips range from how to get Intellisense in XML in your project to working with aggregates to what the heck the SingleOrDefault method does. Are you an XPath guru? Watch Paul’s tips on incorporating XPath queries into LINQ to XML as a transitional approach.

Some fun moments on the show are Paul slipping in a COBOL .NET reference, and his explanation as to why he's glad he took an “anti-Glen” pill that morning.

Finally, Paul has a great freebie he’s making available for geekSpeak fans, so listen out for the URL he shares.

This geekSpeak was hosted by Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit.

About our guest: Paul Sheriff, President, PDSA, Inc.

Paul Sheriff is the president of PDSA, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. He has authored several books, webcasts, videos, and articles on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, and Windows SharePoint Services. Paul can be reached via www.paulsheriffinnercircle.com.

XSLT Profiler Add-in for Visual Studio Team System

compumaster — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:52:44 GMT

XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 allows developers to measure, evaluate, and target performance-related problems in XSLT code by creating detailed XSLT performance reports. The XSLT Profiler includes a wealth of useful hints for XSL and XSLT style sheet optimizations, which are essential for XSLT-based applications that demand maximum performance.

If you need to develop reliable and robust software, the XSLT Profiler is capable of detecting the performance errors and defects in coding so that they are corrected at an early stage in the development. This is essential in reducing the overall cost of developing software applications. The XSLT Profiler tool is fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to provide a seamless and approachable user experience, combining several Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft XML Editor and XSLT Debugger, Visual Studio Team System, F1 (Performance Suites), and more.

For more information and download check out Microsoft Downloads site.

Code To Live: Dave Donaldson on CodeKeep

joshholmes — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:47:18 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with Dave Donaldson to talk about the cool project that he started back in 2005 called CodeKeep. This is a fantastic example of a passionate guy putting up a project that everyone can benefit from with no financial motivation.

This is one of the longer episodes so far (close to 30 minutes) but there's a lot of great content here.

Erik Meijer Shows Us His Favorite Visual Basic 9.0 Feature - XML Literals

Beth Massi — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:23:29 GMT

In this in interview Erik Meijer, an Architect on the Data Programmability team, shows us how LINQ to XML works in the next version of Visual Basic, 9.0. He talks about some of the history behind the features as well as how XML literals, unique to Visual Basic, are implemented. He takes us on an adventure on how to efficiently work with XML using XML Intellisense and an Office Open XML Excel document, pointing out a lot of tid-bits of information along the way that only Erik could show us.

0:00 – 5:30	Intro / History
5:30	Demo Starts
8:23	Importing XML Schema and Namespaces
11:50	XML Intellisense and Type Inference
15:10	Constructing the LINQ to XML query
17:40	Working with XML Literals and Embedded Expressions

Office 12 docx files are zips in disguise

JD Lewin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:46:00 GMT

Take any document created in an Office 12 app, rename said document with a .zip extension, and browse that file’s contents from Windows Explorer. Welcome to the magic of Office’s XML implementation, where every document is simply a bundle of XML data. This little hack will provide you hours of needless content-editing fun for those who have Office 12 installed, as well as a sneaky way to replace the images in your coworker’s trip report with photos of our favorite popular music star.

Xml Editor: Creating Code Snippets

compumaster — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:03:48 GMT

Visual Studio has lots of features that increase developer productivity; one of them is the Code Snippets. Visual Studio comes with many code snippets that you can access by right clicking and selecting Insert Snippet, or typing the snippet's name.

With this demo, we would like to show you how to author a very simple code snippet so that you could start writing your own.

Xml Editor: Xml and Schemas

compumaster — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:31:36 GMT

In this screencast, we would like to show you the dynamics of a Xml file and Xml Schemas. You'll find answers to questions such as how an Xml file linked to a Xml Schema, how does the intellisense gets active, what's the schema cache, and how to access it.

Xml Editor Creating Schemas from DTD

compumaster — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:17:39 GMT

In this short demo, we would like to show you a feature of XmlEditor in Visual Studio. XmlEditor has the support for converting a DTD into a Xml Schema with "Create Schema" button. Errors in DTD is automatically reported after the conversion. We also support XDR Schemas.

Xml Editor Formatting Layout of Xml Document

compumaster — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:40:18 GMT

In this short demo, we would like to show you a feature of XmlEditor in Visual Studio to layout a Xml Document easily to view and edit.

LINQ to XML API and VB 9.0

compumaster — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:11:50 GMT

The next version of VB .Net adds Xml as a built in data type using the new LINQ to XML API. As a built in data type, VB 9.0 provides the ability to create XML using XML Literals and to query XML documents using XML properties. This webcast contains a demo by David Schach, the lead developer in this project, of creating a program to share pictures over the internet.

Jon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XML

JonUdell — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:53:39 GMT

Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office applications.

XPSが切り開く新しいドキュメントマネジメントの世界 - 范さん、佐藤さん、瀧本さん

Akira Onishi — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:20:22 GMT

XML Paper Specification (XPS)について、Windows開発統括部の３名にインタビューしました。
XPSベースのテクノロジは、the 2007 Microsoft Office SystemとWindows Vistaに統合されましたが、XPS自体はオープンフォーマットなので、プラットフォームに依存しません。
このビデオでは、XPSやWindows Vistaに導入されている新しい印刷機能についてご紹介します。
26分12秒のビデオです。

関連サイト：
XML Paper Specification: 概要 (日本語)
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/whdc/xps/default.mspx
仕様とライセンスのダウンロード
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/whdc/xps/downloads.mspx

For English audience:

This video is based on Japanese conversation only and no English transcript available.
Pan-san, Sato-san, and Takimoto-san talk about XML Papar Specification (XPS) and printing feature update on Windows Vista.
The video length is 26min. 12sec.

For more information about XPS, please refer to the following URL.

XML Paper Specification: Overview (English)
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx
Specification and License Downloads (English)
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/downloads.mspx

TechNet Radio - Open XML Formats in Office 2007

auroraqueen — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:53:24 GMT

Michael Murphy, interviews Gray Knowlton, the Group Product Manager for the Office Client Technical Product Management team. They discuss how Open XML Formats are intended to be standard file formats to which any Developer or Implementer will have access, key aspects of the modular architecture, why Microsoft chose to standardize the Open XML Formats, and how the design of the Open XML Format makes solution development much simpler than it's been in the past.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Gray Knowlton – Gray Knowlton is the Group Product Manager for the Office Client Technical Product Management team. Gray has also engaged on product management topics for Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office InfoPath, and the Open XML Formats. Prior to joining Microsoft, Gray has held various product management, system engineering and other technical roles at leading desktop software companies, and integrated solution providers for large-scale news organizations.

Matthew Scott: Application Development using the Open XML File Formats

Rory — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:19:02 GMT

In this video we talk with Matthew Scott, a developer on the Word team who takes us through the design and development of the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, an application that natively reads and writes Word documents saved in the Open XML file format. This application has been released to the developer community on Codeplex as an open source project, with full C# source code.

The content control tookit is a real-world example of working with the new Office Open XML file formats via the new System.IO.Packaging API in the .NET 3.0 framework. It’s also a very handy tool for developers, providing the ability to map content controls to custom XML nodes through a simple drag&drop interface. Matt explains the architecture of the tool, shows how to use it, and then goes through some of the source code to demonstrate various best practices for Open XML

Links:

Project homepage

Open XML Developer Group

Brian Jones’s blog

Word team blog

introduction to xsdobjectgen

kzhu — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:48:08 GMT

I think xsdobjectgen is a great tool so I made a little screen cast for it.

It is very high level, very easy stuff. If you are an expert, more likely you don't need to watch it.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Thanks a lot!

Kevin

Open XML File Formats

Adam Kinney — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:25:22 GMT

Ofice 2007 has new file formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, based on industry-standard ZIP and XML technologies. These formats were getting a lot of attention at the Office Devcon, where Bill Gates announced the Open XML Formats Developer Group in his keynote presentation. This new group is comprised of big tech firms like Microsoft, Apple, Intel and Toshiba, government organizations like the Florida House of Representatives, and ISVs from around the world, and their goal is to provide a forum for the free exchange of information about how to implement the Open XML Formats.

Mauricio Ordonez, Doug Mahugh, Kevin Boske and Brian Jones discuss the Office Open XML file formats, the new www.OpenXmlDeveloper.org web site, and the kinds of things developers are looking to do with the new file formats.

Looking at Web Services with Visual Studio 2005

trobbins — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:44:43 GMT

The Web Services platforms represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies. They really were the result of developments and companies struggling with the various interoperability issues that were common with other technologies. Web Services aren’t the only distributed technology available but certainly the most prevalent.

In this screencast Thom takes a look at some of the more important changes within the Web Services infrastructure using Visual Studio 2005. These include the addition of the WS-I basic profile, and building typed datasets.

Creating a Native XML Web Service in SQL Server 2005

keydet — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:26:40 GMT

Federal Developer Evangelist Marc Schweigert shows you how to take advantage of this new feature of SQL Server 2005. You'll see how to create a web service straight out of the database using T-SQL without the need for IIS.