Recordare has developed MusicXML technology to create an Internet-friendly method of publishing musical scores, enabling musicians and music fans to get more out of their online music.
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The Selfish Tag
by Edd Dumbill – The current received wisdom has corrupted the desirability of open standards into the notion that the developer is helpless and must wait for standards to emerge before progressing. In fact much criticism of XML is based on this misconception, that somehow if you choose to use XML 1
VoiceXML Forum, W3C Refine Focus
By Thor Olavsrud – The VoiceXML Forum and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday reached an agreement under which the W3C will take the lead in technical development while the VoiceXML Forum focuses on interoperability. The two groups signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which acc
Best SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips
As you can imagine, it is not always easy to know which tips might help boost your server’s performance the most, as each database and application is different.But there are some basic performance tips that generally can be considered critical to the performance of all database applications,
Tips from the SQL Server MVPs, September 2001
The SQL Server MVPs offer tips about detecting connection blocks, using sp_depends versus Enterprise Manager Display Depandencies windows, using SQL Server to manage resultset paging, and more.
Embedded Windows and CE .NET Subject of Workshop
At a workshop last month in San Jose, California, Microsoft unveiled the next generation of Microsoft’s Embedded Windows strategy, featuring both Windows XP Embedded (XPe) and a revised version of the Windows CE OS called CE .NET. XPe replaces both Windows NT 4.0 Embedded and a version of Win
XML Encryption moves to Last Call
The W3C have released Last Call Working Drafts of the three documents as part of their XML Encryption Activity.
Xybrix 0.1 Released
Version 0.1 of the Xybrix XML Application Construction Kit is now available. This is the initial release, and is freely available under the MIT open source license. Xybrix is an XML application construction kit. It includes a rich set of libraries that allow applications that edit or otherwise work
Using W3C XML Schema
by Eric van der Vlist – The W3C XML Schema Definition Language is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. W3C XML Schema is a W3C Recommendation. This article is an introduction to using W3C XML Schemas, and also includes a comprehensive reference to the
Accessing Data From SQL Server
By Subhagata Swarnakar – Among the many things that are changing with .NET is data access. Under the .NET Framework, data access is handled by a set of classes called ADO.NET which are essentially an augmentation of the existing ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).