Microsoft boosts focus on XML-based services
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft Corp. is seeking to make XML-based Web services easier to develop with the delivery of several new tools and, ultimately, a new XML-based language optimized to handle data rather than objects. The Redmond, Wash., company last month delivered three tools to help users develop around XML. Perhaps holding more promise for developers, however, particularly those in the Microsoft world, is a vision for a new XML "language" that company insiders are calling X# (pronounced X sharp), a .Net language based on the company's C#.