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Good VB.NET and Linq to XML resource

Beth Massi posted nice presentation on Ling to XML on Infoq.com.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/massi-linq-xml

She also rights regularily on her blog "Sharring the goodness tha is VB" - http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/

VB.NET 9.0 has nice syntactic sugar tha C# 3.0 don't have for working with XML and Linq.

Dingo schema compiler for .NET

Dingo is a pluggable Schema Compiler for .NET and will generate C# code. The goal is to provide a simple way to generate Domain Objects. .NET XSD currently only generates Data Objects. Dingo can delegate code generation with high granularity.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dingo/

XML, XQuery and more

Using XQuery to Manage XML with SQL Server 2005
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=468058

XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/

XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345117.aspx

Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345118.aspx

WCF Web Programming Model Resources

Nice list of resources for WCF
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/wcf-web-programming-resources

Serialize and deserialize objects as Xml using generic types in C# 2.0

http://geekswithblogs.net/paulwhitblog/archive/2007/07/20/114076.aspx