(Ivan Pepelnjak) If you have to store loosely structured data (or data in which the structure is expected to change significantly in the future) in a relational database, it might be best to store the less rigid part of the data in XML format, using the traditional table columns to store just that p

(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) With Ajax still one of the industry’s hottest buzzwords, more and more applications are being built with Ajax technologies. However, it’s not always easy to build a good application. This article focuses on how to build intuitive, easy-to-use Ajax-driven applications.

(Siddhesh) JSON is picking up favour among programmers as the format for data interchange. Here are some of my notes, taken as I read about it in this MSDN article: JSON syntax is very terse and yields formatted text where most of the space is consumed by the represented data. No additional appli

(Christian) Since version 2.0 Spring supports an XSD-based configuration approach that allows integrating your own DSL for configuration into Spring. How to implement such namespace extension has been documented and the approach has been adopted by several Spring sub-projects and others, e.g. Spring

(Michael Galpin) In this final installment of the series, you’ll add an interactive form for adding new albums for an artist. This will use GWT Ajax, JSNI, and XForms controls. You’ll look at how GWT can augment XForms. To demonstrate this, you’ll look at how you can use GWT to provide localized con

(Beth Massi) As Rob points out (I actually noticed his post on the Dev Center today!) there are some How-Do-I videos available for Visual Studio 2008. One of the videos is an overview of LINQ to XML (sorry I can’t give you a direct link to the video as they are wrapped up into some nifty Silverlight

(Boris Kolpackov) XML processing has become a common task that many C++ application developers have to deal with. Using low-level XML access APIs such as DOM and SAX is tedious and error-prone, especially for large XML vocabularies. XML Data Binding is a new alternative which automates much of the t

(Daniel Rubio) Major trends are clearly drawn in the Web services landscape by now. Take for instance the use of the enterprise service bus (ESB) as an SOA enabler, or the widely debated SOAP vs. REST design approach, or how the WS-* stack addresses many enterprise scenarios. The point is that the i

(Michael Galpin) XUL is not just another UI language that has sprung up. It is a tried and true application framework. The Firefox browser is built using XUL. In fact, the upcoming Firefox 3.0 release will provide a XUL runtime allowing any Firefox user to run any XUL application. In this tutorial,

(Kurt Cagle) Efforts have been underway recently to develop a schema language for JSON, analogous to the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) or RelaxNG languages in the XML arena. Similarly, a JSON transformation language is being proposed and bandied about in various AJAX circles as web2 developer