This article describes how to use the XmlTextReader class to read XML from a URL. The streamed information can come from a variety of sources, such as a byte stream from a server, from a file, or from a TextReader class.

(Klaus Aschenbrenner) Much of the buzz surrounding the release of SQL Server Yukon seems to be about its new integration with the CLR. However, there are plenty of other worthwhile features in this lastest release—and at least one of them can make your database application programming whole a lot ea

(Jean-Luc David) Web services are widely supported by all the major technology vendors and organizations including IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and the W3C. Millions of dollars have been invested in the development of this technology. Web services allow you to share data across many platforms an

Most developers I know don’t regard XSLT as a programming language, but a quick perusal of its many features suggests otherwise. Although it is not as powerful as languages like Java and C#, XSLT does contain basic features for working with XML documents. (R)

(Russell Butek and Richard Scheuerle, Jr.) This tip introduces roundtripping, its definition, and its use. It begins to point out some roundtripping issues with the JAX-RPC specification. Subsequent tips will cover more issues in greater detail.

(Alex Homer) This article expands on the principles discussed in the previous article to build a utility that synchronizes the contents of two or more databases over the Internet, delivering to each the rows that have been added to any other.

(Edmond Woychowsky) A while back I wrote an article on how to extend XSLT through the use of JavaScript. Recently I found myself revisiting this subject due to an unusually pesky problem—I was assigned the task of rewriting the order summary page for the company’s Web-based order entry system. It wa

(Russ Miles) First things first, my apologies but I am not talking about an existing technology in this blog. I am not even talking about a complete concept for a future technology. This blog is just about an idea only. An idea for applying aspect orientation to XML, nothing more and nothing les

(Adam Kolawa) Garbage in, garbage out – it’s an axiom that applies to many aspects of enterprise development, but none more so than building reliable and robust Web applications and integration projects with XML. Since its inception, XML has been seen as the cure-all for every problem related to Web

(Mary Chipman) Users can create and edit documents containing information marked by XML tags in a completely intuitive fashion without needing to learn or understand XML. Users can search for specific information, aggregate information from numerous sources, and eliminate many of the time-consuming,