(Bob DuCharme) From our geeky perspective, Atom and RSS seem to be sweeping through the internet, changing the way people and systems get notified about events. From a broader perspective, though, they’ve got a long way to go — we all have plenty of computer-literate friends who’ve never heard of ei

(Jaya Nehru) Assume that your Data Grid is not associated with any dataset. In the absence of any XML support functions, you can use the RenderControl method to extract the content into an .xml file.

(Nirlep Kaur) Sometimes we need to save bulk data in database.Suppose, we want to save 100 records in the database.With the normal approach, if we save one record at a time, this will definitely result in degradation in your application’s performance. To minimize SQL server database calls, we can us

(Karl Seguin) Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has recently become the craze thanks, in no small part, to Google’s usage of it in Google Suggest as well as Google Maps. In ASP.NET terms, AJAX allows server-side processing to occur without requiring postback, thus enabling clients (browsers) wi

Microsoft XML Notepad is an application that allows you to create and edit XML documents quickly and easily. With this tool, the structure of your XML data is displayed graphically in a tree structure. The interface presents two panes: one for the structure, and one for the values. You may add eleme

(Micah Dubinko) If there’s an overarching theme to XML Annoyances, it’s a simple imperative: think! The point isn’t to rant against the system, tempting though that might be. During the expansion phase of XML, early adopters converged on a specific set of practices, conventions, and “common knowledg

(Mike Gunderloy) SQL Server 2005 is the first version of Microsoft’s flagship database to truly embrace XML. True, SQL Server 2000 has some bolt-on XML functionality, but in SQL Server 2005 XML is pervasive. In particular, you can use the new XML columns to actually store XML documents as part of a

(Daniel Rubio) Designing Web services in the context of an SOA entails striking a balance between a series of issues — mainly reusability and flexibility — but once this initial design is done coordinating individual services to play out their role in an aggregated manner implies another set of re

(Jerry King) XML use is widespread across modern information systems in all industry, government, and academic sectors. The core technologies for processing XML (XML, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema, and others) are maturing steadily – thanks to support from standards bodies like the W3C and OASIS, and from

(Brett McLaughlin) This tutorial shows Java Web developers how to set up Apache Struts to use multiple configuration files. You’ll learn about the purpose and structure of the various Struts configuration files and the rationale for working with smaller files. You’ll follow steps to split a large, c