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Hanselminutes Podcast 79 - LINQ to XML

September 04, 2007 Comment on this post [2] Posted in Learning .NET | LINQ | Podcast | Programming | XML
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My seventy-ninth podcast is up. I've been poking around with LINQ to XML and I reports my findings to Carl about life with XDocuments and XElements. We also talk about the bridge classes that link (no pun intended) System.Xml and System.Xml.Linq.

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Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts, a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show.

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As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Enjoy. Who knows what'll happen in the next show?

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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September 07, 2007 6:28
Scott, as always a great show. One comment as a clarification, you mentioned in the show regarding extension methods that you could add a Surname property to an existing class using extension methods. To do that, you would need Extension Members not methods. Currently the extension method implementation requires stateless static/shared methods. Well, if your static class contains a static dictionary which was indexed by the passed in object's GetHashCode... Yuck, that's getting so ugly and unscalable, I'm not even going to keep fleshing this out. As I was stating, the static methods should be stateless method calls not stateful properties.

It is worth mentioning that, while extension methods are powerful, they can indeed be quite dangerous as I mentioned at http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/archive/2006/04/27/893.aspx.
Jim Wooley
September 07, 2007 8:14
You're absolutely right, I mixed members and methods. Thanks for the reminder!
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