April 2003 - Posts
I am writing an application that stores information in a
dataset and then serializes it to an xml file. Every month the serialized data
is emailed to a Exchange public folder. In some ways it is an asynchronous xml
web services. I am working in Switzerland which means people use umlauts where
writing e.g. ä or ü or ö. Everything works well on the local machine because the
serialized xml file is stored as unicode. However, the encoding is not specified
in the xml declaration as it should i.e.
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
is used and not
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" ?>
Which is a pain later on as I am inserting the serialized data into the body
of mail message rather than attaching it. Whether that is the sensible
approach is another question but I am surprised that as a default that datasets
are not saved with the correct encoding set.
The question is how do serialize the dataset so that it specifies the
encoding ?
A site dedicated to a man whose grip on reality
seems to be about the same as Scott McNealy. I suppose this is the beauty of the
web, have a funny idea and all the world can come and see the result.
http://64.39.15.171
I thought this article was interesting but I hope this
statement is incorrect :
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,993289,00.asp
"The other new application Microsoft has been developing as part of the
Office System family of products, InfoPath, is also expected to be made
available only to those large customers who have a volume licensing agreement
with the company as part of the Professional Enterprise release. "
Infopath is a great developer tool and client tool for web services. The equivalent
tool from Altova is free. Why not make Infopath a standalone tool, free
Office addin or package it with Visual Studio ? As a developer I want to use
Infopath, why limit it to big customers ? This seems ridiculous to me.
Update. It appears that Infopath will also be available
as a standalone application
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/factsheet/OfficeSKUFS.asp
Thanks Mike Gunderloy http://www.larkware.com/
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