The general acceptance of XML as a standard protocol has moved the concept of Web services from the realm of the theoretical to that of the practical. It is commonplace for Web sites being created or maintained today to have some sort of Web services, and by extension, XML component residing in it.

(Argiris Kirtzidis) After all the fuss and the hype of AJAX technologies, there are plenty of solutions for AJAX around, for the developers to pick. The drawback is that you usually have to replace the standard ASP.NET controls, that your web pages are full of, with custom AJAX-enabled controls,

(Uche Ogbuji) Firefox is a relatively new Web browser and currently the most popular browser built on the Mozilla platform. You’ve probably heard of it because of its phenomenal growth and its profile as an open source software success story. Perhaps it’s even your Web browser of choice, as it is mi

(rudy.net) After working with a couple of xml projects for the last six months, I am ready to share a class I wrote called XmlHelper which got me through all the complexity of xml and made my life a lot simpler. If you are a xml beginner or have no idea about xml, this article should teach you the

(Ed Tittel) In this sixth of nine pieces on the subject of XSLT, we’ll take the various functions and expressions you’ve learned about in previous tips and describe how to embed them inside sequences of processing instructions. Usually, this occurs within the scope of some ma

(Rusell Ruggiero and Joram Borenstein) Back in late 1999, XML was considered an immature technology with a very low adoption rate among both vendor and developer communities. Today, things have changed a great deal regarding mainstream adoption of XML. A case in point is the recent announcement

(Louis Columbus) The move by database developers to include object-oriented programming languages has changed the scope of application development and is acting as a catalyst for web services development. Being able to define stored procedures in object-oriented languages is leading to an entirely n

(Vance McCarthy) The latest upgrade to Sybase’ enterprise database, ASE 15, does a great deal more than offer a faster, more scalable database.

(Radu Braniste) This article presents a flexible, compile-time safe way of generating WML and WML-like dialects code. Two contrasting solutions are discussed—one relying on C# without generics and the other one on C++. A rarely used C# idiom is presented, increasing the reusability of the code, but

(Bipin Joshi) In the previous article I explained the overall concept of AJAX and how it can save you server post backs. Our last example was a simple “hello world” kind of example. In this part I will explain how to work with data from a DataSet to populate controls.