Hi, I'm a C# developer who's fumbling in the first VB code he's written since VB6, so if I am asking a rather obvious question, please forgive me. I decided to experiment with XML Literals to generate some XML code for me, instead of using XMLDocument I have 2 questions, the second regarding a workaround due to my inability to figure ...
With the following code: Dim x As System.Xml.Linq.XElement = _ <div> <%= message.ToString() %> </div> Dim m = x.ToString() ...if message is HTML, then the < and > characters get converted to < and &rt;. How can I force it to skip this encoding? ...
I am using the ASP.NET MVC VB.NET XML Literals View Engine created by Dmitry Robsman and described on his blog in this post. http://blogs.msdn.com/dmitryr/archive/2008/12/29/asp-net-mvc-view-engine-using-vb-net-xml-literals.aspx I would like to create strongly typed view pages using this view engine, but it doesn't seem to contain the ...
I have a class called Profile that has some simple properties and then it can have a collection of ProfileItem that again has some simple properties and then it can have a collection of ProfileItem (RECURSION). Now I am trying to generated a very simple save function using XML Literals that come with VB.NET (3.5). The code I am using i...
Hi, is there a way to enable IntelliSense for XML literals in VB9 (VS 2008)? The ideal source of IntelliSense is an XSD document, but I can use anything else format to do it. Thanks ...
If I have a text stored in db, file, resource does not matter: <code><%= Integer.MaxValue %></code> Is there a way to do this: Dim el As XElement = XElement.Parse({variable containing text above}) and to have it evaluate the expression Integer.MaxValue? ...
I'm finding this post very useful.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102084/hidden-features-of-vb-net XML literals seem to be very powerful.. I'm wondering if there's any way to use them to view the results of a Web Service Call in .Net? ...
I am going to be performing an XSLT transformation, transforming XML to an HTML table. It's tabular data, so that's why I'm not using div's. ;) Anyway, I need to repeat one part of the XSLT for the size of one of my collections. Here's a snippet of the code... Dim styleSheet = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet ver...
I've tried searching on this but can't seem to find an answer anywhere, so hopefully someone here can help. I want to insert an conditional XML tag based on whether or not a count is above one, but am not sure how to do it. For example, I have two XElements that are like this: <Blob> <Group> Stuff 1 </Group> </Blob> and <Blob> <Gro...
How do I create/read/write XLinq and/or VB XML Literals from and to encrypted xml files? ...
I'm transforming some XML from DrawingML to XAML. Unfortunately, the XAML one is not working as expected with white spaces, but I have found a work around. Here's the problem: Problem Statment I want to write the following in a TextBlock: Hi John, what did Sushi A say to Sushi B? So I would write: <TextBlock> <Run>Hey</Run> ...
I have an XElement that I need to create via dynamic xml literals/embedded expressions and I need it to inherit the default namespace. This doesn't appear possible though through everything I've tried. Does anyone know how to make this work? For example Imports <xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"> Sub ...
E4X (Ecma-357) is an extension to ECMAScript that adds XML literals as first-class primitives. That's awesome, but with only Mozilla and Adobe support (without V8 and IE support too), E4X is virtually dead from a web developer's perspective that has to support users with any modern browser. What other work is being done around implemen...
I have the same problem as stated in this question, but the accepted solution there was a "works on my machine" answer. Here is my code: Dim document As XDocument = _ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="h...
In VB.NET I can easily embed strings into XML literals using <xml><%= "my string" %></xml>. How can I embed an XElement instance? I know I can use methods on the XElement, XNode, etc classes, but I'd like to do it in the XML literals if possible. ...
I have several xml namespaces that expose the same schema. I want to use a function that dynamically accepts a namespace and applies the attributes or the properties according to the specified namespace: Public Sub ProcessElement(element As XElement, [namespace] As XNamespace) element.<[namespace]:Property>.Remove() End Sub I actua...
Is it possible to use variables like <%=person.LastName %> in XML string this way? XElement letters = new XElement("Letters"); XElement xperson = XElement.Parse("<Table><Row><Cell><Text> <Segment>Dear <%=person.Title%> <%=person.FirstName%> <%=person.LastName%>, </Segment></Text></Cell></Row>..."); foreach (Person person in pers...
What are all the programming languages that support XML literals natively or via extension? I know of VB.NET, Scala, and Factor. Any others? ...