Mvp.Xml library v1.0 Released!
Oleg Tkachenko let us know that the the XML MVP team has released their additions to the .NET Framework (version 1.x) today: The MVP.XML Library.
Why should you care -- well, that's easy: it's going to make doing serious work with XML and .NET that much easier. Some for examples:
- XmlTransformingReader, which seems to reduce the amount of code you need to the basics and brings a nice little perf boost to the table too.
- IndexingXPathNavigator. I'm working forward to using this instead of writing some nasty XSLTs for those cases where FOR XML EXPLICIT is just too hard to pull off.
Speaking of XML and the XML/Web Services MVPs, I had a nice discussion this afternoon with Christoph Schittko about WinForms when the conversation turned to “Contract First”-think. He pointed me a cool tool that he's worked on with the Really Big Brains at Thinkatecture that makes generating the WSCF stuff with Visual Studio.NET a lot easier for me.