(Chris Kunicki and Charles Maxson) The Excel XML Toolbox for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 provides a number of useful tools for working with XML in Excel 2003. This article walks through a few major features of the toolbox and discusses their benefits.

(Harish Kamath) Perl may not be as well known as some of the other languages, but it boasts a powerful library of packages and modules that everyone can use to work with XML. In this article, Harish Kamath explains how to get started with the “XML::XSLT” package that allows you to transform XML docu

(Frank Coyle) This year’s 2005 JavaOne Conference in San Francisco provided an opportunity to celebrate Java’s tenth birthday. At the first JavaOne back in 1995, Java had just emerged from Sun’s labs as a hot, new object-oriented language with the mantra “write once, run anywhere”. That first Ja

(Mike Elliott) Through many years of enterprise level software development and consulting I became critically aware of the importance of good source code documentation, and several years ago when I began working with first release Visual Studio.NET beta 1 and found C# provided built in support for i

(Ronald Bourret) As defined by the members of the XML:DB mailing list, a native XML database is one that: Defines a (logical) model for an XML document — as opposed to the data in that document — and stores and retrieves documents according to that model. At a minimum, the model must include el

(Kiran Khambete) The classes found in System.Xml namespace provide functionality to parse and navigate through XML documents. The attached source code shows how to use this functionality in C#.

(Puneet Sangal) As Web applications become more sophisticated, developers increasingly need to be able to incorporate dynamic graphics and animation. Unfortunately, Web browsers were originally designed to display static HTML; displaying dynamic or animated content has always been a problem in Web a

In Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS), after you make configuration changes by using Internet Information Services Manager or a programmatic interface, an error message that is similar to the following is logged in the System log: Source: IIS Log Type: Error Category: Catalog

(goxman) Using serialization objects are persisted which allows us to store them easily in files or databases. E.g: Storing configuration settings of an application, storing custom settings of a user for an application, saving the state of the application. Since we have the persisted forms of o

(Justin Cook) The .Net Framework includes an extensive set of tools for working with XML data. This article will explain how to retrieve remote XML data from an application that doesn’t necessarily provide Web Services yet, but transmits data in XML format. Also included is the code to process the r