(Uche Ogbuji) Kimbro Staken skewers a terribly contrived example of OO-to-the-max. It’s great fun at first glance, but in the end I find the treatment somewhat troubling. I’ve myself undergone a conversion from mainstream OO orthodoxy to what I consider post-OO programming sensibility, and I hav

(Roger Jennings) The LinkSvrs.vbp project’s frmLinked form has textboxes to enter the master SQL Server name and initial catalog—OAKMONT-DC1 and BeckwithSQL, respectively—for most of this article’s examples. After connecting to the database, a listbox displays the friendly names and provider names o

The XML Document Object Model is a programming interface for XML documents. The DOM defines the way an XML document can be accessed and manipulated.

(Michael Palermo) In this chapter, we’ll look at current and upcoming Extensible Markup Language (XML). We’ll begin by describing what XML is and then talk about where it can help us, some related standards, and focus on some important design considerations when writing an XML application.

(Mark Pilgrim) I wish I didn’t need to write this article. My life would be much simpler if Atom could just use existing HTTP authentication, as-is. But it can’t; I’m going to tell you why and then I’m going to tell you what we’re doing instead. Let’s back up. Atom, in case you missed it, is a ne

(John Coggeshall) If you aren’t really familiar with XML, you are probably wondering what it is exactly, and what all the fanfare is about. The best way to describe XML is to compare it to its counterpart, HTML. At a glance, XML and HTML share many similarities, but in reality serve two completely d

XML Schema is an XML based alternative to DTD. In our Schema tutorial, you will learn what an XML Schema is, how XML Schema will replace DTD, and how to use the XML Schema language in your applications.

You can create tables and columns in XML Schemas in order to validate that table representations in XML data contain valid structure as well as valid data types. In XML Schemas, tables can be constructed manually or automatically with the XML Designer depending on the availability of a data sourc

A data model is like a blueprint of a house. It is important to get it right or it can lead to disaster. This are the parameters to be defined: –the data entities to be stored –the size of table columns –datatypes –which columns can have NULL value –constraints on certain data –relatio

(Kendall Grant Clark) In last week’s XML-Deviant ("The TAG’s Town Hall"), filed from the XML Conference 2003 in Philadelphia, I described the town hall meeting held by members of the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The chief purpose of the town hall was to announce that one of the TAG’s pr