November 22, 2009

The web and the evil microsoft spider

Microsoft is being such a spoilt sport in getting its products into the market that it really irritates me. Initially I was so excited with silverlight that I thought I should learn it. Once I stepped into the lapping waters of silverlight, I realized how badly you need to depend ONLY on microsoft technologies to take a swim to the deep end. Here's why:

XPath is almost a W3C standard. Its almost necessary for all programs to have an XPath parser. Microsoft can be so uptight in packaging silverlight that they left XPath out and have only provided support for LINQ to XML.

Im going to learn more on LINQ to XML and write a post on how to actually use it.