(Joel ‘Jaykul’ Bennett) Just a quick post to upload a simple PowerShell script that transforms XML files with XSL files. There’s actually a cmdlet in PowerShell Community Extensions which does this, but believe it or not, in all my tests the script outperforms the cmdlet (the cmdlet takes, on averag

(Kurt Mackie) Intel Corp. released a new software product suite that is designed to enhance the performance of XML in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments, or other environments where XML handling needs optimization. Intel XML Software Suite 1.0, which was announced earlier this month, p

(mfmaneef) Last week at my work I had to write a tool to process few hundreds of thousand email files and insert their details to the MS SQL Server 2005 database. Doing it in traditional way might require much connectivity to the database and will consume many resources. I was wondering what if I co

(Dan Wahlin) Gradients provide a way to blend multiple colors together to enhance text, shapes or canvases. Silverlight provides excellent support for working with different types of gradients and allows colors to be placed at multiple locations. While creating gradients by hand in XAML can be chall

(Andrew Clifford) If you develop or manage web sites or IT systems, you need to know about XForms.

(Francis Wong) Lately, you may have been hearing more and more about Ajax and begun to wonder how it could be beneficial to your business’s web application development projects. First, it is important to start with an understanding of this type of web programming. While the concept is not new – it h

(Rob Richards) I was meaning to write about some of the new openinfocard features this weekend, but instead I spent my time trying to get the openinfocard selector working against the Windows Live Beta site supporting Information Cards. I finally found the problem and really just could not believe i

(Mario Morejon) Last year, Altova changed its application development tools product bundle, which originally was a discount product group that included its XMLSpy software, and rebranded it into a new bundle called MissionKit.

(Ivan Pepelnjak) The traditional user interaction in classic web applications was well understood: You click, the browser freezes (apart from the rotating wheel on some edge of the window), and then the new content appears. AJAX technologies (particularly the background HTTP requests and the dynamic

(Kurt Cagle) The XML 2007 Conference has come and gone, with as usual a number of thought provoking talks and controversies. During the evening of the first day, there was a special XForms Evening, with a number of the industry gurus in that space providing very good examples of why XForms is a comp