2010 Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles

I know everyone is as excited as I am the the first round of TIGER data from the 2010 census starts being released in December 2010 to February 2011.

For the complete schedule: check out this.

Enjoy

Working with Special Characters

Every once in awhile you need to work with the following characters in XAML:

• >
• <
• "
• &

You would get these errors if you put them in a text value:
Error 5 Entity references or sequences beginning with an ampersand ‘&’ must be terminated with a semicolon ‘;’.
Error 4 ‘"’ is an unexpected token. The expected token is ‘;’.

You can encode invalid characters for use in XAML by using the following encoding syntax:

Character	Encoding
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
&	&amp;
“	&quot;
space	&#160;
‘	&apos;
(numeric character mappings)	&#[integer]; or &#x[hex];
(nonbreaking space)	&#160; (assuming UTF-8 encoding)