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Who would have believed that XML, such a seemingly trivial technology, could revolutionize an industry? It may have seemed like a long shot in the beginning, but the XML aficionados saw something special and pragmatic right away—a sort of duct tape for the world's information systems. But not all developers felt this way. Some were disappointed by the lack of tool support that would bring XML to life.

When designing your application, you may need help choosing between different technologies or approaches. This topic summarizes the choices and provides links to more information about rapid application development (RAD) with Visual Basic or C#. For more information about which language in Visual Studio to use, see Programming Languages.

You have created your application and resolved the build errors. You must now correct those logic errors that keep your application or stored procedures from running correctly. You can do this with the development environment integrated debugging functions. These allow you to stop at procedure locations, inspect memory and register values, change variables, observe message traffic, and get a close look at how your code works or does not work.

On my last article we are talking about replacing special character for XML document which was working great but our testing team able to break it again. The single and double quote character are different from NOTEPAD to Microsoft Word .Here is how it looks and it's decimal/Hex value

Syntactical differences between Java and C#.

Here is a list of all downloads in the Microsoft Download Center, grouped by product or technology.