The following walkthrough describes the process for accessing an XML Web service from an application created using the Managed Extensions for C++. During the course of this walkthrough, you will accomplish the following activities: –Create a client application using the Console Application

(Berthold Daum) The Streaming API for XML (StAX), introduced in the previous tip, provides not only an XML parser that is fast, easy to use, and has a low memory footprint, but one that also provides a filter interface that allows programmers to hide unnecessary document detail from the application’

(Dare Obasanjo) Traditionally, APIs for processing XML have been categorized according to whether they’re designed for processing entire XML documents loaded in memory, such as the W3C DOM, or for processing XML in a streaming, forward-only fashion, such as SAX. However, these divisions do not fully

This example will demonstrate how to use XML for SQL to view and edit data in a browser. The example makes use of an XML template and an XSL stylesheet. It can be run using the sample Northwind database.

In this article, a continuing series, managing editor Darshan Singh responds to questions asked by visitors. In this part: –Using WinInet to call a Web service –DOM and limiting the size of XML document –Binary data from Visual Basic 6.0 to ASP.NET Web service

(Anupam Singh) XML is establishing itself as the standard for exchange of information across enterprises. However, the technology that allows enterprise-class applications to deal with XML processing is still not clearly formulated. This causes most enterprise customers to implement their own archit

(Brian Travis and Mae Ozkan) The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a standard that has provided a simple solution to a complex problem. The problem is that integrating systems is difficult. That’s not really news, but it is a fact that many I.T. professionals are well aware of. The main area o

(Faheem Khan) In the first article of this series, I discussed web service usage models and described XML processing requirements in web services. I also introduced W3C Document Object Model (DOM) and two of its popular implementations, MSXML and Xerces. This second article discusses MSXML in de

(David Mertz) This article extends my discussion of advanced programming, but strays into an area that is not exclusively object oriented. What we are interested in for this installment is ways of writing programs that are declarative rather than imperative. In many cases, simply notating facts is m

(James G. Britt and Teun Duynstee)Professional Visual Basic 6 XML shows the VB community how to take advantage of XML technology and the available (free-to-use) implementations. The flexible and standards-based data description that XML provides can be used in a myriad of places where VB programmers