(Jibin Pan) This DataGrid is a Client Side Control. It is created by JavaScript and uses Ajax.net technology to communicate with ASP.NET code behind, from there, using ADO.NET to access the database and update the database with dataset.

(Nicholas Chase) One of the nice things about XForms is how much control it gives you over how the form is processed. For example, XForms exposes a tremendous number of events for which you can trap and perform specific actions. In this tip, you learn how to use the events involved in submitting the

(Mads Kristensen) The XHTML definition demands all tags to be lower-cased.

(Ed Tittel) The notion of Web content has continued expanding, ever since Tim Berners-Lee and the CERN crew began using the earliest versions of HTML in the early 1990s as a handy way to share research results in-house. The boundaries around what a document is, what kinds of information it can deliv

(Peter Nehrer) The Streaming API for XML (StAX) is the latest standard for processing XML in the Java language. As a stream-oriented approach, it often proves a better alternative to other methods, such as DOM and SAX, both in terms of performance and usability. This article, the first in a three pa

(Hew Wolff) Recently I was wading through some hard-to-read XML files. Art & Logic, the company I work for, was helping a client to build an Ajax-style Web interface that used XML to talk to the backend and client-side XSLT to produce the HTML. I found myself reformatting the XML by hand to make thi

(Dan Wahlin) I’ve been playing around a lot lately with a great set of components from http://www.gpsdotnet.com/ that allow GPS functionality to be integrated into .NET applications. The samples included with the GPS components were awesome and made it simple to do what I wanted (since they did mos

(Nicholas Chase) XForms enables you to easily send help messages and hint messages to a form using elements, but did you know that you can get even more control over this process by reacting to the help and hints events instead? This tip shows you how to detect when the user needs some assistance an

(Rado Kotorov and Diane Sklar) This paper explains why Information Builders chose to use a component-based AJAX architecture for its new report and graph authoring solution – WebFOCUS Power Painter. The first section puts AJAX in the context of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies. The second section f

(Keith Winston) Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose text markup language often used for data storage or passing messages between applications. There are a number of libraries available for processing arbitrary XML within programs, but fewer options to translate XML it into professi