Reading a Xml File in T4 Templates After I wrote the post about the use of T4 templates in EF4 , I played with them for a while (not in EF but generally with T4 templates ). In an old project that I’ve created almost 3 years ago which automated the use of lookup tables I had an enum. That enum was meant to be the connection between an Xml node names and was heavily used in the application. For each Xml node I needed to add an entry in the enum. So I thought what the hell lets see if I could have...
Back to Basics – Zip in .NET In today’s post I’m going to share a problem I solved this week. The solution was to use the framework’s System.IO.Compression namespace and the GZipStream object. The Problem In my current project we save Xml data in our database. The field to save the data was of type varchar(6000). This way of saving the data raised a problem of big Xml data (over 8000 kb for every Xml data) which were saved in the database and for the long run could raise space and performance problems...