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Re:On VBScript by leeman2016 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:24AM (#18722894)
Some time a go I had to work on a heavy XML processing application and found out VB.NET had a nice XML literals feature. I completed the development using it and it was a joy.

EDIT: To anyone who didn't get it, XML literals are used like this:

  Dim myContact = <contact><%= p.Name %></contact>
  Dim allContacts = <contacts><%= From c in db.contacts Select <contact><%= c.Name %></contact> %></contacts>
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Re:On VBScript by cm2187 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:43AM (#18723374)
It's not that I don't like xml literals but I rarely use them. An XML serializer is almost always preferable. And they cause havoc in razor, where the editor is always confused between xml literals and html snippets.
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