Saturday, January 24, 2004

Xen and the Art of C# Query Programming

Microsoft has apparently publicized a research effort to combine XML and relational queries into an extension to C#, called Xen. Read the article on Extreme Tech.

Xen looks promising: It simplifies many common business logic operations that generally create code readability (and security) headaches.

From the article: Including XML constructs in the language will make programming Web services easier and should result in greater type-safety as well as increased code optimization--since the compiler will have intimate knowledge of the XML data structures and the functionality used to manipulate them.

BTW, this item was pulled from The Server Side .NET, a new community resource for .NET development, sponsored by a number of big name Microsoft-technology players (including Microsoft). I'll likely be pulling more information from that site in the future.

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