Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML pdf

XML has been a hot topic for some time. The massive industry acceptance of this W3C Recommendation,
which allows data communication and information storage in a platform independent manner, has been
astounding. XML is seen and used everywhere—from the display of data on various browsers using the
transformation language XSLT, to the transport of messages between Web services using SOAP.
.NET is Microsoft’s evolutionary and much vaunted new vision. It allows programming of applications
in a language independent manner, the sharing of code between languages, self-describing classes, and

self-documenting program code to name but a few of its capabilities. .NET, in particular ASP.NET, has
been specifically designed with Web services and ease of development in mind. With the release of .NET
2.0 Framework, .NET includes significant enhancements to all areas of ASP.NET. For Web page develop-
ment, new XML data controls like XmlDataSource, and TreeView make it possible to display and edit
data on an ASP.NET Web page without writing code reducing the required amount of code by as much
as 70% in some cases. ADO.NET 2.0 includes many new features that allow you to leverage the new
XML features introduced with SQL Server 2005 (the next major release of SQL Server).
To achieve this exciting new Web programming environment, Microsoft has made extensive use of XML.
In fact, no other technology is so tightly bound with ASP.NET as XML. It is used as the universal data
format for everything from configuration files to metadata, Web Services communication, and object
serialization. All the XML capabilities in the System.Xml namespace were significantly enhanced for
added performance and standards support. The new model for processing in-memory XML data,
editable XPathNavigator, new XSLT processor, strong typed support for XmlReader, and XmlWriter
classes, are some of the key XML related improvements. Connected to this is the new support for XML
that ADO.NET 2.0 has. Because of the new ADO.NET 2.0 features, the programmer now has the ability
to access and update data in both hierarchical XML and relational database form at the same time.