(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET AJAX opens a wide range of possibilities to developers. One of them is periodic pinging of database and check for changes to the data. It is certainly not a new technique and developers achieved it in the past using JavaScript and XMLHTTP. However, with the help of ASP.NET AJAX

(Chris C. Gruber) Integrate your ODF and Microsoft Office 2007 documents into your enterprise and Internet applications more easily than ever before with IBM DB2 9. Review older methods of data interchange with MS Office documents, and learn how MS Office 2007 offers better data interchange. This ar

(Ric Smith) AJAX has forever altered user expectations regarding the experience delivered by the Web. In today’s world, users sit at the edge of their seat waiting to see what scrumptious eye candy AJAX will serve them next. Some of the more notable visual effects and desktop-like interactions inclu

(Marco Gralike) Binary XML storage can also be combined with an XML Schema. As shown in Mark Drakes presentation whitepaper (slide 6), the lower right of the diagram, shown below, marks the section for XML Schema (structured, schema based) binary XML storage.

(Brett McLaughlin) In the last article, you learned how to take an object in JavaScript and convert it into a JSON representation. That format is an easy one to use for sending (and receiving) data that maps to objects, or even arrays of objects. In this final article of the series, you’ll learn how

(John Carroll) Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is a de facto standard on the Internet. The format is supported on most computing platforms, and the ability to read and write PDF is common, driven by Adobe’s early willingness to release full details of the specficiation. Subsets have been stan

(Kurt Cagle) “If I have an XML schema, is there any way that I can work with that schema to build forms for populating instances of that schema?” Over the years, I’ve seen a number of variations on this same question, and generally for a pretty good reason. It takes a lot of work to create a sch

There are various forms of web syndication available to web site owners. The syndicated distribution of media is known as Podcasting. In this article we will focus on delivering different audio and video (sometimes called Vodcasting) media to your subscribers.

(Farhan Ali) The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own tags. In Software Engineering extensible refers to the system that can be modified by changing or adding features. Its pr

(Marc Kelderman) When you use an adapter to retrieve data from the database or reading records from a file, you will get a collection of XML records. Often you want to modify data within this list of XML records. This can be done like the the BPELX:InsertAfter/BPELX: and other functions. But there i