Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
For the last two days, you've learned about data access in .NET. The theme throughout has been how extensible markup language (XML) is everywhere in .NET, but you can write great applications without knowing too much about it. That all changes today. There are times when you need to deal with XML files, and you need to know what to do when that happens. The .NET Framework has broad support for all XML data access scenarios, so if you need to access and manipulate XML, the tools are there to do so. Today you get a crash course on
- What XML is and how it fits into .NET
- Using the Schema Designer in Visual Studio .NET to create XML schemas
- Using the XML Editor in .NET to edit XML files
- Binding schemas to XML files using XML Editor in Visual Studio .NET
- Validating XML data against an XML schema
- Using the DataSet to read and write element-based XML data from SQL Server
- Using the DataReader and the FOR XML AUTO clause in SQL Server to create attribute-based XML files
- How to read and manipulate XML files using XmlReaders
- How to read and manipulate XML files using the XML document object model (DOM) classes in .NET
- Using XPath queries to query nodes in XML files
• Table of Contents
• Index
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days
By
Jason Beres
Publisher
: Sams Publishing
Pub Date
: January 14, 2003
ISBN
: 0-672-32421-0
Pages
: 696
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer application. The Visual Studio .NET development environment is the most comprehensive developer tool ever created, putting that together with the .NET Frameworks' Class Libraries, the developer has everything he or she needs to get up-to-speed on Microsoft's latest revolution in application development. This book will guide the developer through using the VS .NET IDE, the Visual Basic .NET and C# language, and the supporting tools available from Microsoft to create Windows and Web-based applications. The market is full of books that pretty much say the same thing, which is already available in the help files, the author of this book has written and deployed over a dozen successful applications using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. All of his expertise and experience is used to give you the most comprehensive title on using Visual Studio .NET.