Yasser Shohoud
United States
, joined 08 Apr 2002
Yasser started programming at the age of 12 when he wrote his first text-based game on a Commodore PET. He's since moved to IBM mainframes then to Microsoft technologies and has worked as Systems Engineer for IBM and a Chief Architect for Best Software (now Sage Software). Now an independent consultant and trainer, Yasser specializes in XML and Web services and has authored a book on Web Services for Addison Wesley. A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP.NET, Yasser speaks at industry conferences including VS Live and VS Connections and his articles appear regularly in VSM, XML Magazine, and MSDN Magazine. Yasser also publishes the monthly .NET Web Services newsletter.
Latest articles
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Understanding XML Namespaces
by Yasser ShohoudUnderstanding XML namespaces is essential to understanding and building Web services. Unfortunately, most developers do not understand how XML namespaces work and get confused when they see all the colons and URLs. I wrote this article to help you get over the initial hump of understanding XML namespaces, and to show you how they are used in XML documents.
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XSD Schemas for VB Developers
by Yasser ShohoudAn XSD tutorial targeted at Visual Basic developers. Explains the fundamentals of XSD schemas and shows examples of mapping VB classes to schemas. Also shows you how to validate XML documents using XSD and MSXML 4.0