SOAP is an XML-based communication protocol and encoding format for inter-application communication. Originally conceived by Microsoft and Userland software, it has evolved through several generations; the current spec is version, SOAP 1.2, though version 1.1 is more widespread. The W3C’s XML Protoc

(Ben Forta) Not long ago, I started every presentation on XML explaining that it was not a new page markup language and that it did not in and of itself replace HTML. Fortunately, we’ve made some progress of late–developers now understand that XML is nothing more than a data sharing mechanism–simple

(Brett McLaughlin) The latest version of the Java programming language — Java 5.0 — includes an improved, expanded version of the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP). A major addition to JAXP is the new validation API, which allows greater interactivity, support for XML Schema and RELAX NG, and the

(James Snell) This paper is the first of a short series that illustrates the implementation of a cross-platform, JavaScript-based SOAP Web services client based on the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) design pattern for Web applications.

XML is taking over the world as we know it, having become the foundation of almost all of today’s Web services and most service-oriented architectures.

(Stan Kitsis) Inline schemas are XML schema definitions included inside XML instance documents. Like external schema documents, inline schemas can be used to validate that the instance matches the schema constraints. By default, System.xml disables processing of inline schemas; to enable them, set t

Consider the following scenario. You use a proxy for a Web service that was created by importing schema. The schema contains values for attributes that are fixed and required in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). When you use the proxy, the data for the values may be missing in the

(dekajp) Recently I was working on a web based report in ASP.NET , the report needs to be generated in MS Excel format , the data was too much, to give you an idea I need to generate more than 300 Worksheet and File size was more than 5MB. I tried the Office PIA’s but I was not happy with […]

(Michael K. Campbell) In the “old days” there was a debate that raged between Palm and Windows CE zealots. The focus of the debate was a question of whether Palm, with its simple OS and simple functionality, was better suited to meeting users needs, or whether Windows CE, with all of its complex fun

(Mike Gunderloy) One of the nice things about the original release of ASP.NET was the ease with which you could bind data to the user interface of a Web page. Microsoft defined a relatively simple declarative syntax for hooking up databases to Web pages, and this made it pretty easy to build databas