(Jack D. Herrington) Every once in a long while, I read about an idea that is a stroke of brilliance, and I think to myself, “I wish I had thought of that, it’s genius!” Microformats are just that kind of idea. You see, for a while now, people have tried to extract structured data from the unstructu

(Payam Shodjai) This whitepaper provides a high-level overview of Microsoft support for Web services across its product offerings. Microsoft interoperability efforts and involvement in the Web services standardization process are also discussed.

DataDirect Technologies has released version 2.0 of DataDirect XQuery, the industry’s first embeddable, database-independent component for processing and aggregating XML, relational and legacy data formats such as EDI and CSV. DataDirect XQuery v. 2.0 is an enterprise-grade XQuery engine that suppor

(Wyatt Barnett) One of the neatest new features of .NET 2.0 is the concept of Generics. And one of the most common uses of this feature is in the new GenericCollections. Anyone who spent quality time extending CollectionBase and DictionaryBase in 1.1 (or just cheating using CodeSmith’s collection ge

(Brad Banister) The Ruby language is generating a great deal of buzz in the software community these days. Developers are becoming interested in Ruby for a various reasons such as its promise of increased productivity, the power of the language itself, or simply its ease of use. At the same time, ma

(Surekhas) This article discusses the new SQL Server 2005 XML features. The most significant new feature is the ability to store XML documents in the new XML data type and to be able to index, retrieve, query, and modify elements and their attributes using XQuery. Explaining XML its types and uses i

Follow these procedures to configure and pass client credentials to a Web service using all forms of Windows authentication except Client Credentials. For that case, follow the procedures in the Client Certificate Authentication section.

(Jennifer Kyrnin) Whether you’re writing XML from scratch, or writing a document from a pre-defined specification there is a standard layout for XML.

(Wei-Meng Lee) The phrase AJAX is getting all the attention lately. By now, you should already be familiar with the term, but for those of you still in the dark, AJAX represents techniques to build responsive and feature-rich Web applications. Instead of constantly waiting for web pages to refresh,

(Peter Galli) Microsoft’s move to set up an open-source project that will allow translation between its Office Open XML format and the OpenDocument Format is a welcome first step, but not a long-term solution to the problem, industry players said.