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  • My First Course on Pluralsight

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    So, my first course went live on Pluralsight today! Entitled "The Many Approaches to XML Processing in .NET Applications" this ~4 hour long video course covers the following topics: - What is this XML Thing Anyway? - A Myriad of Methods to Read XML - 16 Ways to Write XML Documents - Read World Uses of XML - LINQ to XML Step-by-Step - Use XML: An Alternative to SQL If you have ever wanted to work more with XML, then learning LINQ to XML is a great way to do so. This video course will take you step-by-step on the best ways to read and write XML documents. You can check out this course at http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/xml-processing-approaches-dotnet-applications Enjoy!

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  • XML Activator

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    All too often I see people using switch/Select Case statements when using a Factory pattern. The problem with this is if you wish to add the ability to instantiate a new class in your Factory, you need to add a new “case” statement, re-compile the code and redeploy that DLL back out to your client machines, or your server(s). Another way to implement a Factory pattern is to use Reflection and Interfaces to dynamically create an instance of a class. This blog post will show you how to use an XML file, an Interface and the Assembly class to dynamically load a list of assemblies and classes to load into an application at runtime.

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