To design, develop, and deploy secure Web services, architects and developers must learn new technologies, and consider new threats associated with exposing functionality on potentially hostile networks. To prepare you to meet these challenges (both now on Web Service Enhancements 3.0 and in the fut

(Yasser Shohoud) Understanding XML namespaces is essential to understanding and building Web services. Unfortunately, most developers do not understand how XML namespaces work and get confused when they see all the colons and URLs. The funny thing is, namespaces are so simple that once you understan

(Mark Woodman) In the course of working on the design for several RSS/Atom-enabled applications, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with the typical form of syndicated feeds. These feeds are so easy to generate that we can readily squirt out all sorts of information from applications without an

(Nicholas Butler) This is a short, simple article that introduces SOAP headers and SOAP extensions.

(Graham P. Harrison) This article elaborates on an architectural benefit of AJAX that lets the management state be ‘broadcast’ to a browser-enabled user base without waiting for a page refresh.

(Thom Robbins) As speech-enabled applications become a core requirement for many enterprise and commercial applications, you’ll need to become familiar with the Microsoft Speech Platform.

(Uche Ogbuji) Atom 1.0 is the emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard for Web feeds — information updates on Web site contents. Since Atom is an XML format, XSLT is a powerful tool for processing it. In this tutorial, the author looks at XSLT techniques for processing Atom document

(Thanh Dao) If you want to aggregate a web service with your application service, or if you are trying to implement someone else’s WSDL, then you need to pay attention while viewing them. That means you are encountering the web service interoperability problem. That was the problem I had too, and I

(Doug Cook) Avalon provides a number of conveniences in terms of accessing and binding external data sources. This tutorial shows how you can bind and display XML data using a data template in XAML. This technique is also known as creating an XML data island. For this example we will create a ver

(Colleen Frye) “Less is more” when it comes to Ajax, a much-hyped Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, according to Richard Monson-Haefel, a senior analyst at Burton Group Inc. in Midvale, Utah. The enabling technology can greatly enhance the user’s Web experience — rather than reloading pag