(Khaled Samir) The .NET Framework includes several libraries for reading and writing XML files, including the System.Xml.Serialization namespace.
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Getting Started with XAML
(Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz) Microsoft’s .NET 3 introduces the option of using markup to create Windows applications, much as we’ve used HTML and related markup to create web applications for the past decade. This is a major break-through and a distinct step on the path towards merging the deve
Transform Java classes into Web services using Axis2 and JiBX, Part 1: Use XML to define a Web service from your Java classes
(Tyler Anderson) XML is powerful in that it can be used to define just about anything. What’s more, it is the basis for an externally readable format for a majority of applications, most notably for the purposes of this series, Axis2 and JiBX. On top of that, as Web services become more and more ubi
Exploring the window functions in SQL Server 2005
(Arthur Fuller) Window functions in SQL Server 2005 have nothing to do with Microsoft Windows; rather, they create data windows. Window functions enable you to look at different levels of aggregation all at once, making it very easy to retrieve cumulative sums, move averages, and perform other calcu
MySQL Active – Active Clustering
(Oli Sennhauser) It is possible to use an active – active shared-disk cluster in MySQL in some cases. For doing this you have to fulfill the following requirements: • Works with MyISAM tables only. • POSIX-locking compliant cluster file system on the device (such as OCFS2 or GFS). • External lo
Web Deployment Projects
(Fritz Onion) When ASP was first released, Web programming was more difficult because you needed IIS to serve your ASP pages. Later, ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 made everything easier by introducing the Web site model of development. Instead of creating a new project inside Visual Studio, the
Infrastructure Solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 TB SAP BW Warehouse
(Christian Matthys, David Bright, Carol Davis, Fabio Hasegawa, Philippe Jachimcsyk, Steve Lockwood, Thomas Marien, Julien Maussion and Stefan Ulrich) In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP wanted to establish a global business pro
IBM aims to orchestrate SOA projects with Eclipse Jazz
(Rich Seeley) The popular image of a programmer hunched over a keyboard in a windowless cinder block bunker with pizza boxes being shoved under the door is very 1984 in today’s service-oriented architecture world. (R)
Composite keys and normalization
(Rudy Limeback) What is composite key and why do we use it? Why go for normalization? Any good sites where I can get information? Any tool which can be used? (R)
C#: Dynamic Iterators with Yield Return
(Paul Kimmel) In the not-too-recent past I predicted that code generators would produce some of the most exciting and useful innovations. Because code that writes code—once perfected—is perfect every time. Humans cannot get something perfect every time, ever.