Back From The MVP Summit - System.Xml Team Rocks

I spent a couple days in Seattle/Redmond thanks to the MVP program and the MVP Global Summit.  This was my second Summit, and although I thought it to be impossible, it was even better then the first one.  Some of the other MVP groups got to see mostly repeats of the PDC, but not the XML MVPs.  Our team (the System.Xml team, aka WebData) went way out of their way and made the most of our time out at Redmond.  Besides asking the XML MVPs in attendence (about 6 of us) to help with the future of System.Xml (which is all under NDA, so I can’t mention the details, but if half of it becomes reality, you will have to re-think how you write code), Dave Remy some how convinced Anders Hejlsberg and some of the VB Team leads to meet with us and discuss XLinq.  For about an hour and a half, the six XML MVPs got to get into the guts of XLinq and suggest changes/enhancements.  I must say, we did our best to make the folks that helped start the XML MVP group proud ( aka Dare, Mark Fussell, Kirk Allen Evans), along with the current defenders of the flame (Adam Wiener, Mike Champion, Soumitra Sengupta and others).

Since Linq and XLinq are all public, I’ll post later about some things I’d like to see done with Linq and XLinq.  It’s nice to see that some of functional programming’s aspects are being embraced by .Net.