The new XML API that comes with Linq to XML has some peculiar ways of handling the XML declaration (aka the XML prolog). Take a look at this sample: Process [] processes = Process .GetProcesses(); XDocument document = new XDocument ( new XDeclaration ( "1.0" , "utf-8" , "true"...
Syndication Syndication is becoming more and more popular. In essence, it is just some form of representation of data, and not only applicable to weblogs and news items. The .NET Framework 3.5 (WCF in particular) comes with a syndication API that allows providing and constructing new RSS or ATOM feeds...
When you add a Web Reference to your project, Visual Studio will also import all schema types defined in the WSDL’s schema section. You can create a schema importer extension (SIE) to influence the way the XSD schema types are mapped to your CLR types. There is a very nice article by Jelle Druyts...