by Dan Wahlin – Events play a crucial role in .NET. They’re used throughout the framework to provide notification to components about different activities that are occurring. For example, clicking on a Button control in an ASP.NET or Windows Forms application fires a click event that can be captured

By Ayesha Malik – Developers experienced in Object Oriented Design (OOD) know that a flexible architecture ensures consistency throughout the system and helps accommodate growth and change. This instructional article uses an object-oriented framework to show you how to design XML schemas that are ex

by John E. Simpson – In the USA this week’s calendar includes Halloween: a time when spooks, zombies, and assorted denizens of the realm of the undead are said to walk the earth. It seems an appropriate moment to tackle one of the most gruesome questions recently posted to the oreillynet.com XML for

The next release of Microsoft Office, intended to be a more corporate-focused version of the company’s productivity application suite, has been delivered to a few thousand early beta testers, Microsoft Corp. said last week.Code-named Office 11, the software is being designed to include wide

By Nicolas Farges – In this article we shall look at the key points that will enable us to determine the role of XML with regard to databases, and to pinpoint the opportunities for acquiring a native XML database.

In this article, Paul DiLascia shows how to develop an XML-based GUI language parser for .NET that lets you code resources, menus, toolbars, and status bars in XML instead of with procedural code. He also shows how a user interface based on XML can easily be localized using standard .NET techniques,

By Larry Seltzer – I don’t know about you, but I’m scared. XML is becoming complex, and it was an inherently fat way to represent data to begin with. In fact, according to the W3C (the keepers of the Web), “XML is verbose, but that is not a problem.” This was a conscious decision by XML’s des

By David Mertz, Ph.D. – In this article, David introduces you to YAML, a data serialization format that can be easily read by humans and is well-suited to encoding the data types used in dynamic programming languages. In contrast to XML, YAML uses clean and very minimal structural indicators, relyin

by Kendall Grant Clark – In this week’s column I return to pick up a bit more of the community’s debate about XML 1.1 before reviewing several other matters, including XInclude security and what processes or methodologies make for good XML specifications.

This article illustrates how to apply an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformation (XSLT) to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document using the XslTransform class to create a new XML document. XSL is an XML-based language that is designed to transform one XML document into another XML