(David Jenkins) The W3C laid out the XHTML path by releasing the XHTML 1.0 (Extensible HTML) specs on January 26, 2000 with full support of all of HTML 4.0 features as well as compatibility with XML for future development. You may think of XHTML as the transition from XML (how the data is to be defi

(Vikram Vaswani) Ever wished for an easy way to transform SQL result sets into XML? It’s a PEAR package named XML_Query2XML, and it provides a comprehensive framework to efficiently turn the results of a database query into a customizable XML document. This article introduces the package, and demons

(Xianzhong Zhu) In this third part of a three-part article, we finish our examination of three possible patterns for constructing a web application. To refresh your memory, we considered the pros and cons of each solution, and focused on rebuilding a legacy ASP.NET 2.0 web application in an AJAX for

(Jack D Herrington) In the age of the people-powered Web, allowing your readers to rate and review content on your site is critical. Discover just how easy it is to add rating and commenting features to a site with Ajax.

(Stanley B. Lippman) This is the second column in a series that explores using C++/CLI as a pure Microsoft .NET Framework-compliant language rather than as a transitional bridge in order to bring native C++ code into the managed environment. My application, EEK!, as described in the last column, is

(Stanley B. Lippman) This is the second column in a series that explores using C++/CLI as a pure Microsoft .NET Framework-compliant language rather than as a transitional bridge in order to bring native C++ code into the managed environment. My application, EEK!, as described in the last column, is

(Eliot Kimber) In my new job at Really Strategies I have started digging pretty deeply into how to get XML into and out of Adobe InDesign CS3. This has turned out to be pretty interesting.

(Kurt Cagle) Recently I passed both my 44th birthday and my 15th wedding anniversary, just signed my daughter up for high school and was told by my doctor that my HDL was soundly thrashing my LDL. My beard, which I’ve worn since my early twenties, is now streaked with gray (a curse of red hair, I fe

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET AJAX provides many ways to improve user experience and performance. One of the most common way is undoubtedly the UpdatePanel control. The UpdatePanel control provides partial page rendering capabilities to your web forms. Commonly developers place data bound controls such as G

(Brian Sletten) When you think about the success of the Internet, your mind probably goes to the vast libraries of digital content: explosive social networks linking gamers, grannies, geeks, and gamblers; torrents of email, both wanted and unwanted; the ability to find out who “that guy” was in “tha