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wizfrog17-Nov-07 13:38
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Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read me...

I am starting with Visual C# to build a Windows application, although I have long experience with Web design in PHP, Javascript, XML/XSL...

I am trying to build a program that would use data from an XML Database file, locally, with online updates.

The program needs to be able to run offline, but check for updates on the XML file when online.

So I have several questions:

- First, I'd like to understand how program updates work: Is there a standard protocol in Visual C# that looks for application updates? Or do I need to program that?
If so, I assume it looks for update of the .EXE, or how would it handle external files?

- So then, I was thinking it may be easier to embed the 'local' XML into the program, and hide it from the user, but I don't see an easy way to use my XML directly. It seems like no matter what I do, I should 'load' the XML into a dataset, which to me sounds absurd since Visual C# is supposed to handle XML in native. After all XML is a structured object, so why can't I access it directly? (or if I can, please tell me how!!!)

The idea behind using XML is that most of my data is formatted text that I later need to output in the form of Word or PDF documents, so it seems obvious to store the data in XML and use XSL:FO transforms on the data to output in the format I want in the end.
I also find a little odd that Visual C# would only handle formatted text as RTF, and not HTML or XML with XSL, but RTF is easy enough to transform in XML, so I'll deal with that... unless someone knows of controls designed to handle HTML/XML editing easily (and that won't cost me a fortune!)

Any insight would be very welcome!

Thanks!


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