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Stonebroom.ASP2XML(c) is an interface component designed to make building
applications that transport data in XML format much easier. It can be used
to automatically pass updates back to the original data source.
Right now the latest buzzword around town is AJAX. AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is a method used to implement remote calling. The problem is that AJAX is only implemented in ASP.NET 2.0. This article will show you one way to implement remote calling without using AJAX or the XMLHttpRequest object. The technique outlined can even be used from classic ASP and is sufficient for most remote calling needs. [Read This Article][Top]
This article is the third and final installment of Alex Homer's series covering the new XML support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In it he covers updating the contents of xml columns, comparing traditional XML update techniques with XQuery, and using XQuery in a managed code stored procedure. [Read This Article][Top]
In the second part of his series on SQL Server 2005's new XML support, Alex Homer looks at extracting data from XML columns, comparing traditional XML data access approaches with XQuery, and combining XQuery and XSL-T. [Read This Article][Top]
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 now offers great support for and close integration with XML as a data persistence format. In the first article of his series examining this new support, Alex Homer offers an overview of how SQL Server 2005 stores XML documents and schemas, examines how it supports querying and manipulating XML documents, and provides a simple test application that allows you to experiment with XQuery. [Read This Article][Top]
In the final article of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer looks at how the updated XML document store objects XmlDocument, XmlDataDocument and PathDocument can be used to read, persist and write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in .NET 1.x. [Read This Article][Top]
In the final article of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer looks at how the updated XML document store objects XmlDocument, XmlDataDocument and PathDocument can be used to read, persist and write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in .NET 1.x. [Read This Article][Top]
Alex Homer continues his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0. In part one, we focused on the reading side of things, examining the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. In this article, we move on to look at the XmlWriter and XmlWriterSettings classes, and how they can be used to write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in version 1.x of .NET. [Read This Article][Top]
Alex Homer continues his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0. In part one, we focused on the reading side of things, examining the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. In this article, we move on to look at the XmlWriter and XmlWriterSettings classes, and how they can be used to write XML documents and fragments more easily and more efficiently than in version 1.x of .NET. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer discusses the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. The XmlReader exposes several useful new features and the all new XmlReaderSettings class makes it easy to generate single or multiple instances of an XmlReader with a range of useful properties. [Read This Article][Top]
In the first part of his series on reading and writing XML in .NET 2.0, Alex Homer discusses the XmlReader and XmlReaderSettings classes. The XmlReader exposes several useful new features and the all new XmlReaderSettings class makes it easy to generate single or multiple instances of an XmlReader with a range of useful properties. [Read This Article][Top]
AJAX is an acronym that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX's strong point is that it allows data on a page to be dynamically updated without the browser having to reload the page. This article offers a brief introduction and description of AJAX and then provides some sample code illustrating its usage. [Read This Article][Top]
In this case study, Dr. John Tunnicliffe relates the process Capco
went through when overhauling their corporate web-site. They wanted a flexible content management system (CMS) which fully utilizes XML as well as the very latest in ASP.NET-based development tools. [Read This Article][Top]
In large web applications, maintaining form validation criteria can become quite a chore. This article, by Robert Walling, will take a detailed look at a validation class that enables you to store these details in an accompanying XML file in order to make managing them much simpler. [Read This Article][Top]
XSD provides the syntax and defines a way in which elements and attributes
can be represented in an XML document. Ramesh Balaji introduces XSD Schema
and explains the technology's benefits using a case study. [Read This Article][Top]
Generally, business components will have several methods exposed to implement different functionality. This short article illustrates how to get the same functionality by only exposing a single method to the interface. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article Jeff Gonzalez explains how to build a class library and client application that will validate given XML documents to associated schema or XSD documents. [Read This Article][Top]
Jonathan Zufi shows how to use the XMLHTTP object within JavaScript or VBScript to validate form-field information without having to submit a page and wait for the result. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski is back with part 7 of his always-popular advanced UI design
article. This time Joe shows how to add relation lines to his folder tree
behavior. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski explains several uses of his Progress Indicator object. These include displaying the status of a data binding routine and creating graphs and surveys. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski creates a Progress Indicator object that uses XML and XSLT. This object has several uses, including updating the client browser of the progress of a data binding routine or the preloading of images. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski creates a drag-and-drop object for folder trees. This control has the capability to drag and drop entities from one point within a tree to another or between multiple trees. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski explains how to dynamically insert, update, rename, and delete entities within a folder tree. Providing features such as unlimited metadata support via XML and XSLT this version of the folder tree can be re-used to represent any array of data. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski explains how to use XML and XSL to create custom context menus on the fly. Using XML and XSL makes these menus low-maintenance and reusable, and reduces load on the server when transformed on the client. [Read This Article][Top]
Joe Slovinski explains how to use XML and XSL to create a Web-based folder tree. Using XML and XSL makes this tree low maintenance and when transformed on the client can reduce load on your server. [Read This Article][Top]
Robert Chartier explains how to use the WSDLReader Component, part of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, to automatically read any Web Service and automatically create your client-sided code. This can be a big time saver. [Read This Article][Top]
This article builds on the concepts introduced in Part 1. It will show you an actual implementation in Visual Basic 6 that solves the problems faced by many companies and described in Part 1. This implementation shows you how to serve data up to any client, independent of programming language or operating system. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Robert Galante describes two solutions he employed in applications to generate custom reports. His solutions convert XML data to HTML using XSL Transformations. One solution uses the Sun Java API for XML Processing, which is called JAXP. The other solution uses the Microsoft MSXML API. [Read This Article][Top]
This is the second part of a two-part series geared to get you quickly started with Web services and the Microsoft Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Toolkit. It will allow you to consume the server that we created in the first part of this article. [Read This Article][Top]
This article will introduce you to common mistakes and how to avoid them when dealing with Web-enabled application architecture. It also offers a robust example of how to build an expandable solution using XML and XSLT. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article Lai Yuen Kit creates a simple stats tracking program to demonstrate how to deal with records using XML, instead of ADO Object. [Read This Article][Top]
With the Server with the SOAP Toolkit (V2, Gold Release) from Microsoft, you can easily get a Web service on line in minutes. This article will take you through, step by step, the quick and easy way of taking your custom business logic and deploying it as a Web service. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article, Marco Nanni examines an example of multiple binary file uploading for Web applications using XML, without the typical limitations of traditional file upload processing. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn what types of data exchanges are targets for optimization and the benefits and disadvantages of using persistence with the Application object. [Read This Article][Top]
Learn how to successfully apply an IMDB to large volumes of data and still get phenomenal searching speeds that outperform a dedicated SQL Server database. [Read This Article][Top]
In this article Niall Ginsbourg takes a look at using Microsoft's XML Parser, along with its in-built XPath query processor, to create an In-Memory Database that provides superior searching operations over an equivalent SQL Server solution. [Read This Article][Top]
Using traditional ASP, Web servers are forced to do all the work in creating a page. This includes getting the data, formatting the output, and sending it to the client. With XML and XSL, the server only needs to get the data in XML format and send that and the XSL to the client. The client will then use its CPU power to transform the XML into HTML using the XSL style sheet. This approach will allow your Web servers to handle many more concurrent users. [Read This Article][Top]
The XML data island in IE 5.x provides a simple and convenient way to
dynamically alter the content of a Web page using data stored either
locally or remotely in XML format. [Read This Article][Top]
At XML 2000 last week in Washington, D.C., David Turner of Microsoft introduced a new technology called XfA. Get a glimpse of the technology in this summary report. [Read This Article][Top]
SQL Server is packed with features for retrieving XML documents. Steven
Woods offers a demonstration of extending a SQL Query via the RAW, AUTO,
and EXPLICIT modes to illustrate the functionality available. The article
then discusses the concept of templates, which allow the creation of
dynamic parameter-based XML documents, and how templates can be executed
via Visual Basic. [Read This Article][Top]
Doing a hard refresh every time
the client needs more information makes the interface difficult for a user to
use in complex applications and causes unnecessary strain on the network because
frequently the same data is being sent to the client repeatedly. Dennis Hurst examines the problem and provides a XML/ASP solution. [Read This Article][Top]
Kyle Patrick explains how using the XMLHTTPConnection object that Microsoft packaged with its MSXML parser is a fast, free, and powerful method for communication between any client and server application that supports COM objects. Using this, instead of CGI, means you can have a client-server interaction between the browser and the Web server that can be done without changing the Web page. Sample code and URLs are included. [Read This Article][Top]
With the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 5.0, it is much easier to use XML in Web applications. Here is some information on how to harness the power of the updated XML Document Object Model (DOM) on the server to parse and use XML data in ASP applications. [Read This Article][Top]
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In this article, Michael Corning and Michael Rys explain how SQLXML might be used to generate XML output from SQL queries. Paying particular attention to using SQLXML's EXPLICIT mode, they show how certain limitations of SQLXML's AUTO mode might be overcome. [Read The Article]
There are many tools that make life easier for progammers. Craig McQueen shares his discovery of a great software development tool for designing and creating XML schemas called XML Authority from Extensibility, and how it can be used with BizTalk's JumpStart Kit to convert XML schemas into COM components. [Read The Article]
Anthony Young shows how to save, or persist, a recordset into an XML file; create a XSL file that will later be used to transform the XML into HTML; and transform the XML into HTML. [Read The Article]
Michael Awai demonstrates how to apply XML, XSL, and ASP to develop flexible, portable frameworks for building Web applications, using a brief case study. [Read The Article]
In the second and concluding part of his article, Dan Wahlin focuses on retrieving data from a website and transferring it from Excel and into an XML file that can used to display it on your own web page [Read The Article]
Jason Bock uses an XML file alongside a COM interface to dynamically add pages to his web site without having to recompile the gateway component. [Read The Article]
XML is becoming a vibrant and usefully technology for server side programming and we have just started a new discussion list for XML on the server side. Come join this new community of XML professionals. [Sign Up Now]
If your ISP doesn't support XML, or you've a large website needing many pages updated with little hassle, then Paul Spencer's advice on the implementation of stylesheets may just help. [Read the Article]
Paul Spencer guides us through his two-page application, exploring the interrelationship between XML, XSL, CSS and HTML, explaining the technologies and where each is best suited. [Read the Article]
In Part 1 Paul Spencer separated style and content on his web site using XML and XSL, simplifying site maintenance and collaborative work. Here, in Part 2, he uses asp pre-processing to create a frame that adapts to browser capability. [Read the Article]
Combining XML and ASP makes for easy web site maintenance and design changes, by separating style from content. In the first of two articles, Paul Spencer introduces XML and looks at its uses for ASP supporting browsers. [Read This Article]
