by Patrick R. Schonfeld – Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a request/response remote procedure call (RPC) protocol based on HTTP and XML. The expression "request/response" means that a client component makes a request to a server component and the client is blocked until the server se
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Tim Berners-Lee on the W3C's Semantic Web Activity
by Edd Dumbill – The World Wide Web Consortium has recently embarked on a program of development on the Semantic Web, Director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a machine processable Web. I spoke with Berners-Lee to find out the reasons behind the new Semantic Web Activity, and how he saw it relating
Logon and Logoff Savior
By Mark Catanese While working with Windows 2000 Professional, I discovered an incredible time-saver—the Run As command. If you don't give users local administrative rights, you'll benefit enormously from this command.
Microsoft Releases SP2 for Office 2000 Developer Tools
Microsoft's new Office 2000 Developer Tools Service Patch 2 (SP2) updates the Workflow Designer for SQL Server to support SQL Server 2000 and includes the latest updates for the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) tools. Office 2000 Developer SP2 offers several installation options; simply downl
IBM Experiments With XML
By Charles Babcock, Interactive Week – IBM is experimenting with eXtensible Markup Language as a query language to get information from a much broader set of resources than rows and tables of data in relational databases.
New tool for generating diffs of DOM trees
Christian Nentwich recently released XML Linear Time Treediff, a set of open-source Java classes for quickly computing differences between DOM trees.
An Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics
by J. David Eisenberg – If you're a web designer who's worked with graphics, you may have heard of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). You may even have downloaded a plug-in to view SVG files in your browser. The first and most important thing to know about SVG is that it isn't a proprietary
How can I create an MS-DOS network boot disk in Windows 2000?
Windows NT has the Network client creation utility (ncadmin.exe) that lets you create floppy disks that have network support. Microsoft dropped this utility in Win2K and replaced it with Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS). However, ncadmin.exe still works under Win2K. You can copy the foll
Using BULK INSERT to Load a Text File
This example combines dynamic SQL, BULK INSERT and the proper handling of double-quotes to solve a client's problem with loading various text file formats into a database.
Exclusive Q&A with the HailStorm Team
On March 19, and in a private design preview four days earlier, Microsoft unveiled what Bill Gates called "probably the most important .NET building block service." Codenamed HailStorm, this suite of user-centric XML Web services turns things inside out, said its architect and distinguished