This Support WebCast session provides general information about XML and its basic usage in Word 2003. The session also talks about improvements in Microsoft Office Word 2003 and how to use it as an XML editor. (R, webcast)

(Kent Tegels) A couple of weeks ago, my co-worker Phil and I were having a few beers when SQL Server “Yukon” and Extensible Markup Language (XML) came up. One of the most interesting things about Yukon is how deeply and extensively XML is supported. Phil also has been to a couple of my in-house trai

(Mark Pilgrim) So you want to write a program to read RSS and Atom syndicated feeds. Sounds simple enough. After all, RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” (or “Rich Site Summary”, or “RDF Site Summary”, or something), and Atom is just RSS with different tag names, right? Well, not exactly.

(Patrick Meader) Visual Studio Magazine’s Editor in Chief Patrick Meader spoke with Microsoft’s modeling maven Keith Short recently about the new Visual Studio Distributed Architecture Designer technology, code-named “Whitehorse.” Whitehorse will be included in Whidbey, which is being previewed at V

(Phillip Perkins) One of the biggest problems with XML is that it’s designed for humans to read. In some instances, this means that anyone spying on your data streams can see the data encased in your XML. (R)

(Sovon Nath) We will develop a web service that would authenticate users for web sites. The web site needs to pass the user ID as well as the password for the user. Apart from this the web site also needs to pass the site’s ID and password. This information is needed so that the web service can

(Uche Ogbuji) Binary XML has generated a lot of talk, and one of the motivators is the need for a less verbose transfer format, especially for use with Web services. One solution that is already at hand is data compression. This tip shows you how to use compression to prepare XML for transmission ov

(Chenghui Luo) EXtensible Modeling and Simulation Framework (XMSF) is a web-based modeling and simulation framework that is designed to support development, analysis and training of operational tactical systems as well as commercial applications. In a military scenario, XMSF will enable better simu

This is a comparison between an xml format native to .Net and the bcp format, as a medium for transferring medium sized data sets between two computers. Neither solution requires either computer to expose SQL Server or any of its components to the Internet. The methodology used for obtaining

(Rich Salz) This month we begin to implement our XKMS server. We’re going to focus on the Register operation. This is the cornerstone of the key registration service, X-KRSS; it implements the core CA function, which is issuing certificates.