I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea ! Of course, his is way better, so I got to code via subtraction. That means subtracting out the crap I had written in a few minutes and dig into his code. There are no unique ideas, right? ;) Either way, it's fun when the same idea is being thought about simultaneously. Here's the general concept. A few weeks back I was talking with Avner Aharoni, a Language Program Manager, and he had been kicking around the idea of VB9's XML Literals making friendlier Views within ASP.NET MVC. I've blogged about VB9's rocking sweet XML support before . It lets you create XML like this. Note the lack of strings...(read more)
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