(Kurt Cagle) Programmers, by nature, are lazy. No programmer wants to do unnecessary (or more typically, repetitive) work when the work could instead be done by automation, which is typically why most programmers spend time trying to discern (or learn) methodologies and design patterns that could be

(Mike Willis) There are few areas where the CIO-CFO partnership can pay off as effectively as with the implementation of the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in reporting, risk management and compliance processes. CIOs can potentially realize enhanced process efficiencies and effectiven

(Manpreet Grewal) LINQ has made programmers life much easier and taken away pains of parsing XML nodes using XPath or Xml DOM. In this thread, well see an example of reading XML contents into string variables using LINQ.

(HightechRider) This small console application exports information about a database from SQL Server to an XML file. This can come in handy when you have a version control system like SVN or GIT that manages all of your source code but lacks any way to track the changes you make to your tables in SQL

W3C has published “Associating Resources with Namespaces” as an Approved TAG Finding from the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The document addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation) can be associated with an XML namespace. It offers guidance on

(Tim Laverty) The Data Programmability XML Tools team is conducting a survey focused on XML technology and tools usage over the coming weeks. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete and wed appreciate it if you would take the time to respond to it. We plan to use the survey results to help d

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I explored the idea of an audit table that copies the entire record in question, creating a full-record snap-shot in time. In the comments to that post, there was some great discussion as to how to create audits and why we might want to do it a certain way. As we mostly ag

(Tom) If you have done much debugging with XML data, you know how difficult it can be to look at a System.Xml.XmlDocument. They dont just show up in the debugger as XML. This is where this command comes into play. It will take a XmlDocument as input and will print out the entire XML for that docu

(William Brogden) Given the number of components that go into a complete Web service, it is not surprising that complete testing is difficult. Just consider how many different technologies may be involved in even a simple client and server. An Ajax style rich Internet application (RIA), for example,

(Martien van den Akker) This week I finished a first version of a little java application that I created to build and test xpath expressions and xslt stylesheets.