XPathReader
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me! Howard first showed us XPathReader probably three years ago, and we’ve been trying to figure out how to put it in customers’ hands ever since. Now you can play with it, and even modify the source. It’s really a big leap forward in usability for streamed XML processing. On one hand, I could complain that the feature did not make it into Whidbey (v2.0), but on the other hand it is available NOW, for v1.0 frameworks, which is even better in a way. You have to wait awhile longer for 2.0 to get some of the other usability tweaks we put in, such as ReadSubtree (for recursive descent pattern) and ReadToXXX. Well, with this tool plus v2.0, we will not entirely eliminate the reasons for people to use DOM (or any other in-memory cache), but we get much closer.