New Forum: .NET Technologies

[Brett_Tabke]

Microsoft has committed vast resources to it's .NET initiative. Although still in it's infancy stage, it is clear that the technology is going to grow by multitudes.

Thanks to our two moderators for taking on this forum. Xoc is a former Microsoft programmer and is currently a traveling .NET instructor. Lisa is a full time web guru working in Microsoft related technologies.

The scope of the forum is going to be rather large. Most Microsoft 'centric .NET technologies are game here: including C#, ASP, and IIS questions.

[txbakers]

how standard are the particular tags MS uses

XML tags for the most part are created by the developer and adhere only to the standard needed in an XSLT for display or a DTD for parsing. Therefore, unlike HTML, Microsoft couldn't introduce proprietary tags.

The basic XML tags are standardized by the w3 group, I believe.

[scareduck]

XML tags for the most part are created by the developer and adhere only to the standard needed in an XSLT for display or a DTD for parsing. Therefore, unlike HTML, Microsoft couldn't introduce proprietary tags.

You mean, Microsoft could introduce proprietary tags. XML is not a cross, a vial of holy water, or a clove of garlic. This is a silly semantic game -- the tags are proprietary if they are inadequately undocumented. This is a classic MS ploy -- release a "standard" that leaves just enough out to ensure Redmond keeps the upper hand when the ambiguities are filled out with actual data. Whatever you want to believe about Microsoft, there is one thing you can always be certain of: Redmond SOAP will only be useful for cleaning the clocks of its customers.

[scotty]

Note that we are talking about SOAP here - not any proprietary XML application that no one bothered to write a DTD or any documentation for it. SOAP, which is just function calls wrapped in XML, is already in draft with w3c, and there are many more companies and organisations behind it than just Bill Gates' corp.