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Article ID: 311526 - Last Review: January 19, 2006 - Revision: 3.4
FIX: Misleading statement in System.Security.Cryptography.Xml namespace documentation
This article was previously published under Q311526
SYMPTOMS
The MSDN documentation on the
System.Security.Cryptography.Xml namespace states the following:
This XML model should not be used for general purposes.
This statement should read as follows:
This XML model is to be used for Security purposes like signing XML objects with a digital signature. For general purpose XML programming, use the XML model provided in the System.Xml namespace.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft
products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in Visual Studio .NET (2003) and the .NET Framework
1.1.
MORE INFORMATION
The
System.Security.Cryptography namespace provides cryptographic services, including secure
encoding and decoding of data, as well as many other operations, such as
hashing, random number generation, and message authentication.
System.Security.Cryptography.Xml namespace is to be used for Security purposes, for instance when
you sign XML objects with a digital signature. For general purpose XML
programming, use the XML model provided in the System.Xml namespace.
System.Security.Cryptography.Xml namespace does not contain an XML model. It contains classes and
methods that operate on the XML model defined in System.Xml.
REFERENCES
For more information about the
System.Security.Cryptography.Xml namespace, see the Microsoft .NET Framework
Software Documentation Kit (SDK) documentation, or browse to the following MSDN
Online Web sites:
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition
- Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0
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