By Daniel Nehren Connecting client-server applications through a firewall is difficult, because usually the only port you've got is the one you use for the Web. Discover how our framework using HTTP tunneling and XML surmounts this obstacle.
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XML: The Big Picture
By Ahmad Abualsamid XML was a rising star in 2000, and that trend is going strong this year. While many high-tech media darlings fall victim to standards wars and overblown expectations, XML is one icon that's living up to the hype.
XML for the Absolute Beginner – A Short Tutorial
By Darshan Singh Welcome to the wonderful world of Extensible Markup Language (XML). This short article is an effort to explain what XML is, what are it's benefits, and briefly describe some of standards evolving around it.
Fitting Workflow into B2B Architectures
By NICOLAS FARGES Every exchange that comes into play in a Business-to-Business architecture forms part of a business process that can be highly automated using workflow technology. The Gartner Group leaves little room for doubt when it affirms that "By 2003, more than 90% of e-business will
Tame Those Strings – Using SUBSTRING
by Steve Jones I guess I could have called it "String Manipulation", but that was nowhere near as exciting as the other title. Often I find developers performing string manipulation in stored procedures and queries and chastise them for it. Using T-SQL is, IMHO, in general, a poor use of
SQL Server CE
New Version Lets You Store and Update Data on Handheld Devices by Paul Yao and David Durant Handheld device users need to be able to synchronize with a main data store when it's convenient and, preferably, when the back-end database server isn't busy. SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Editio
XML Query Engine
The XQEngine utility lets you perform full-text-searches across multiple files using the XML Query Language (XQL) and Java. A while ago, I was looking for an XML search utility. My application had to search a relatively large number of XML files (they were small files) on a periodic basis. The prim
XML for C# Programmers
By Darshan Singh If you are writing XML applications using Visual Studio 6.0, then using MSXML 3.0 is a great option to work with XML documents. But if you are writing code for the .NET platform, the language of choice is C# (pronounced C Sharp) and XML classes provided by the .NET Framework are
W3C now a 'standardization' organization
By Simon St.Laurent In a recent press release noting its achievement of 500 members, the W3C described itself as "unique in that it performs the functions of design and standardization concurrently." Distinctions between W3C Recommendations and ISO Standards are common fodder for discuss
SQL Server and DMO: Distributed Management Objects
(Francesco Balena) SQL Server can be administered programmatically using system stored procedures, but Distributed Management Objects (DMO) offer a more modern, object-oriented alternative. This article introduces SQL-DMO in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 and describes the SQL-DMO object model,