(Darryl K. Taft) Despite providing slick advantages over standard Web application techniques, AJAX presents accessibility issues for some users. Developers, however, are working to address the problem.

(Russell Butek) This tip describes how to use the XML attachment type defined by the Web services Interoperability organization: wsi:swaRef.

(Aaron Skonnard) Windows Communication Foundation has been built from the ground up around the tenets of service orientation. It supports several serialization mechanisms that make it easy to bring existing types forward and provides a simple, interoperable foundation for future service-oriented app

(Marco Deluca and Frances Mullally) This tutorial provides a quick series of tasks to use AJAX technology with WebSphere Commerce. It also provides instructions on how to enable dynamic caching with AJAX using the full test environment. (R)

(Marc Clifton) I came across a few articles that discuss loading a tree from a DataSet, but none of the articles I found seemed to use the tree as the primary user interface control while behind the scenes, manipulating the DataSet itself. This article uses the XTree that I’ve written about previou

(Colleen Frye) The increased use of Ajax has brought to the forefront concern about its security. Recognizing that this is an issue, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is updating its Guide to Building Secure Web Applications to include a separate chapter on Ajax. Andrew van der Stock

(Edmond Woychowsky) Some wise individual or maybe it was some advertising executive, once said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Whatever the source, this phrase has become one of those proverbs that is instantly recognizable as true. Say it and everyone nods in agreement, people are basical

(Uche Ogbuji) Most developers have to learn a different playbook when they deal with XML and they’re used to database technologies. XML’s transparency requires a lot of care when you expose XML to applications on a network. Carelessness in this regard can lead to security breaches. Learn about the s

(Marc Clifton) Whenever I use a TreeView, I get frustrated with the amount of application specific coding that I have to do. I’ve been mulling about an XML-based template that defines the master tree: –defining node "types", –specifying the root node type, –given a node type, what are the

(Bill Evjen, Billy Hollis, Rockford Lhotka, Tim McCarthy, Rama Ramachandran, Kent Sharkey and Bill Sheldon) In this chapter, we’ll look at how you can generate and manipulate Extensible Markup Language (XML) using Visual Basic 2005. However, using XML in Visual Basic is a vast area to cover (more t