Why? I've been forced into engaging with XML in all its gory details recently, as part of my AzureKit project (more on which in another post). Being a big fan of all things LINQ, I started out trying to use the LINQ-to-XML framework. I had problems. This is not a fault of the framework; as a fundamental part of the .NET Framework it must provide a way to achieve everything, and that's not the same as providing a way to do things simply. The REST API for Windows Azure uses a hybrid of t ... [Read more]

I was working on an Azure utility with Johan on Friday, which had to deal with the XML responses provided by the Service Management REST API. XML like this: <HostedServices xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <HostedService> <Url>https://management.core.windows.net/GUID/services/hostedservices/foo</Url> <ServiceName>foo</ServiceName> </HostedService></Host ... [Read more]