(Paul van Brenk) One of my coworkers was struggling with an XML document with a default name, none of his attempts returned any nodes. The main reason for this was that his document contained a default namespace which he didnt include in the query.

(Paul Kimmel) It is not is hardly worth talking about; well, okay, just one more time. It seems there is an impression that advanced techniques are adopted by VB developers more slowly. Consequently, some things show up in C# first and VB later (if at all; remember anonymous delegates never showed u

(Dino Esposito) What makes partial rendering particularly appealing for the development of ASP.NET AJAX applications is its inherent simplicitylower impact on existing pages and fewer demands on developers’ skills. But partial rendering is merely a trick to bypass the browser in the execution of the

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) Part 1 of this tutorial gave you a foundational understanding of XPath. Using slash notation, wildcards, unions, and simple text, you learned how to locate elements and attributes anywhere within an XML document. However, sometimes you need more than just matching based on

(Jennifer Kyrnin) When you start writing XML, you will hear over and over the two terms "well formed" and valid. They are not the same thing. You can have a well formed XML document that is not valid, and a valid document that is not well formed. Basically, a well formed document is one that meets t

(John Christensen) Because I’m totally always forgetting this syntax and then having to scavenge through multiple sources to find it, you’re all going to be subjected to more SQL.

(Uche Ogbuji) Mozilla Firefox 3 is a major release with many enhancements, some of which are targeted at users, and some at developers. One of the most interesting updates gives Web developers the ability to build Web applications that work even when the user is disconnected from the Internet. Use t

(Peyton McCullough) In the previous part of the article, we looked at the new syntax provided by LINQ through exploring some simple scenarios involving an array of Person objects. We extracted certain elements, ordered them and grouped them according to the specific scenario. LINQ, however, is not l

(Andrew Welch) Here’s a potential workaround for the co-constraint problem in XML Schema.

(Ryan Bost) This article is targeted for Beginner to Intermediate level WPF programmers. This article assumes that you have some basic knowledge of WPF in regards to layout. If you have no experience with WPF, I strongly suggest reading Sacha Barbers WPF: A Beginners Guide series.