(John E. Simpson) The question would be almost Seinfeldian if it weren’t so hopelessly nerdy: what’s up with software descriptions, anyway? Did you ever notice how popular download sites A, B, and C always seem to provide exactly the same kind of information for a given software package? Are these s

(Uche Ogbuji) Minimization is an important aspect of security. In the supply chain of goods businesses, one doesn’t lump all the raw materials, financial instruments and other paraphernalia of commerce along with the final goods in the retail location.

(Larry O’Brien) Source code has three audiences: the compiler, ourselves, and other readers. For more and more developers, the last is the most important. Of course it’s important to properly specify to the compiler what it is you wish the computer to do, but in a global marketplace, a talent for pr

SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol – is the hottest thing in XML development right now. It has a major role to play in Microsoft’s next generation of Visual Studio, and it is the basis of their “.NET” strategy. If you’re looking to write a bullet-proof SOAP service now, in VB6, then look no furthe

(Micah Dubinko) I’ll begin with a small confession: I have a thing for crossword puzzles. I always fill them out in pen, not because of some intellectual machismo, but simply because I have lots of pens around, and few pencils or erasers. Working on a crossword puzzle with ink means two things:

(Joshua Greenberg) Learn how the Keylogix ActiveDocs suite enhances the power of Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Word XML Markup Language (WordprocessingML) and turns your desktop publishing interface into a server-side, enterprise-class document automation engine.

(Rajesh Bordawekar, Michael Burke, Igor Peshansky and Mukund Raghavachari) Extend Java technology with first-class support for XML, XPath, and XML Schema to make XML processing programs easier to write, more robust, and more efficient. This article provides a gentle introduction to XML Enhanceme

(Alex Homer) This is the third in a series of three articles that look in detail at how the new features within the System.Xml namespace in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework can be used to read and write XML documents, and interact with the new XML document store objects.

XML Mark is an XML parsing benchmark originally created by Sun Microsystems to demonstrate the relative performance of Java XML parsing vs. .NET (C#) XML parsing. The original Sun XML Mark 1.0 benchmark kit can be downloaded from Sun’s Website.

(Jason G. Williscroft) In an earlier article (Implementing ODBC in ASP .NET), we described some issues with Microsoft’s ODBC server controls, and how to work through them. In a nutshell, although Microsoft provided the necessary data objects, they left out the logic required to wire these objects in