(Mickey Williams) See the Logical Datacenter Designer in action with this look at creating a simple datacenter model.

(Micah Dubinko) XML and the labyrinth of related technologies have gotten complicated enough that a resume-writer can no longer sum up her XML experience with short bullet points. Or can she? Members of the XML community come from diverse backgrounds and educational experiences. If you had to di

(Andrey Lifshiz) There is a cool XML database client (Open-Source ADO.NET XML Provider — WilsonXmlDbClient v1.0)written by Paul Wilson that allows you to work directly with a well formed XML file as if it was a database. Here we will use this XML database client to code some simple examples using ‘

(William Tay) Route secure SOAP messages through multiple HTTP SOAP intermediaries using "Next-Hop" mechanisms, and use the ExtendedSecurity function to form a secured chain of SOAP nodes through which messages must pass.

(Deepak Vohra and Ajay Vohra) The Extensible Stylesheet Lang-uage Transformations (XSLT) specification provides for morphing XML documents into other XML documents. An XML document can also be transformed into a format other than XML such as HTML or text. An XSLT processor is required for an XSLT tr

When you call the Read method from an XmlTextReader class by using the following code: String m_XmlDocument = “http://localhost/bug/file.xml”; XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader (m_XmlDocument); reader.Read(); you receive the following System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException error messag

(Mickey Williams) See how this Team Architect Edition designer can help you model all operational aspects of your datacenter, making it easier to build and deploy.

(Uche Ogbuji) XIST is a very interesting project I’ve been meaning to dig into for some time. If you’ve been following the news section at the end of each of these columns, you’ll have noticed the steady work that Walter Dörwald, the project leader, has put into this toolkit. It started out as a fra

(Simon Guest) This article shows Interoperability based on OASIS WS-Security 1.0 between Microsoft WSE 2.0 and Systinet Server for Java 5.0. The walkthroughs in this article will take you through all you need to know to configure the two environments for securely signing and encrypting SOAP requ

(Jack Herrington) For any reasonably complex data set, you need multiple views to navigate it. Take a QA test system, for example: With a pool of tests and test results, you need to see the data by date, by test category, by individual test, and so on. Each view would be in its own HTML file. So, ca