Mark Fussell, XmlAdapter and O/R mapping

Mark is a Lead Program Manager in the XML group (or in the WebData group?). Sometime ago I found this document by Mark Fussell Object/Relational mapping, and was kind of interested on how it felt to do the trip from O/R mapping to XML. It's an interesting one, and I think it's a trip in the right direction.

I found Mark today in the Exhibit Hall, I asked him what happened with the XmlAdapter in Whidbey, he told me it's not going to ship, we talked a little about it (he have some customers that were interested in using XML instead of DataSets as the input/output of Business Logic Layer, and the stuff around the XmlAdapter provided the change tracking functionality that we needed to do it), and then I asked him about his previous O/R mapping work.

It was a different 'Mark Fussell' ;), so I still don't know how it feels to do that trip ;).