(Daniel Rubio) For the many benefits an SOA brings to an organization, like having the capability to mix and match services with many different providers and suppliers or granting access to data in a platform-independent manner, there are many implementation details that are often overlooked when de

(Uche Ogbuji) You might have run into this scenario if you work with XML files that contain sensitive data: You run into a problem, perhaps a bug, with your favorite XML processing tool. You need to send the vendor an example of a file that triggers the bug. You can’t just send random XML files beca

(Bill Hatfield) ASP.NET has made the Web a powerful platform for enterprise application development. ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 extend that power dramatically. But Microsoft developers are already hard at work on the next version of ASP.NET. And this time its not just server-side code. A new

(Chris Schalk) You’ve probably heard all the AJAX hype by now, as well as seen the many products that claim AJAX support or “compliance.” However, you probably haven’t seen a good, simple technical explanation of what AJAX really “is.” In this article, you’ll get an overview of the core fundamentals

have seen a few questions around sub templates on the forum recently. Using subtemplates is a very powerful way of making your life as a template developer much easier, if you have a piece of formatting functionality that you intend to use across multiple templates then break it out as a sub templat

(tako.lee) SQL code is much easier and faster to read and understand when it is formatted, especially when it is a long and complicated SQL statement you are dealing with, or you have to read other people’s code. Writing a decent SQL formatter is not an easy task. In this article, I would like to cr

(Sanket Terdal) An ASP.NET page processing-model is post-back based. The older approaches require the reloading of the entire page with every postback. This means that in order to handle any server side event, you must post the form back to the server. This event-driven model is certainly powerfu

(Selim Mimaroglu) When we need to store XML in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) we have to think of nonnative ways to store it, since the structure of XML does not fit the flat relations of the RDBMSs. Although some RDBMS vendors support XML storage and XQuery such as Oracle 10g (rele

(Don Laursen) What is the first thing you do when you start work? If you’re like most people, you open email. Today email is the primary message hub for corporate communication. The next generation of productivity applications will provide a similar vehicle for your documentation flow.

(Eric Landes) The idea of automating reports takes many shapes. Some people may want to schedule a report before a weekly meeting and have the report emailed to all meeting participants. When the report is scheduled and emailed automatically, there is a great time savings for the end user, as well