XML Tutorials & Articles
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Inside Open XML
by Matt NicholsonAs Matt Nicholson explains, Open XML is not just a new file format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, but an open standard capable of expressing any Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.
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Reading, Storing and Transforming XML Data in .NET
by Dimitrios MarkatosThis article illustrates a mixture of common .NET methods for formatting and presenting in a readable fashion any XML document you may encounter. The latest hype with XML Web Services and even the .NET Framework itself relies on XML as its backbone, therefore this is no light matter.
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Accessing Hotmail using C#
by Wouter van VugtThis document will enable you to build your own client, using a sure and solid way to communicate with Hotmail in the same way as Outlook does. It will be shown how the protocol can be used to your own advantage, and it isn't at all hard to understand either.
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XSD Schemas for VB Developers
by Yasser ShohoudAn XSD tutorial targeted at Visual Basic developers. Explains the fundamentals of XSD schemas and shows examples of mapping VB classes to schemas. Also shows you how to validate XML documents using XSD and MSXML 4.0
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Create your own Web Server using C#
by Imtiaz AlamThis article explains how to write a simple web server application using C#
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Dynamic Search Conditions in T-SQL
by Erland SommarskogA very common requirement in an information system is to have a function (or several functions) where the users are able to search the data by selecting freely among many possible criterias. In this text I will look at various techniques to solve this problem.
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Microsoft Indexing Service and ASP.NET
by Barry DorransMicrosoft Indexing Service is a service that provides a means of quickly searching for files on the machine. Barry investigates how we can use the indexing service to expose full-text searching in ASP.NET.
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VBA in FrontPage
by Bill BurrisHow to create your own Macros in FrontPage; examples include altering headers across the site, adding code samples, and using msxml
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Creating Dynamic Style Sheets Using ASP
by Thomas C. CarpeHow to create dynamic style sheets using ASP
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Creating a Generic Site-To-Rss Tool
by Roy OsheroveI’ll show how to use regular expressions to parse a Web page’s HTML text into manageable chunks of data. That data will be converted and written as an RSS feed for the whole world to consume. Finally, I’ll show how to create a generic tool that enables you to automatically generate an RSS feed from any website, given a small group of parameters.
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XML transformations in .NET - Part I
by JLogicAn introduction to using XSL transformations on XML documents, and how to perform these in VB .NET using the XslTransform class.
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Introduction to Microsoft's .NET Platform
by Nakul GoyalASP.NET is not just another upgrade or the next version of ASP. It is a unified web development platform that provides necessary services for developers to build Enterprise Web based Applications. ASP.NET allows you to use a full featured programming language such as C# or VB.NET to build web applications easily.
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Building a Web Service - The Beginning
by Bruce JohnsonTo create an intelligently designed web services, it is important to understand the architecture that is available to support them. This article lays out the foundation on which our sample web service will be based.
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Searching XML using a DataSet & DataView
by Chris ScottSometimes you need the basic features of a database but don't want the hassle, and possibly cost, of creating one for a small application. With the .NET DataSet object and a simple XML document we can emulate the basic features of a database.
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A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control
by Mitchell HarperA while back, Mitchell wrote an article about MoreOver.com and their XML news sources (which are free for developers using them for non-profit purposes). Today, Mitchell takes that idea one step further and creates an ActiveX component that uses the MoreOver.com news feeds in a similar way. The component uses the XMLHTTP library and the MSXML parser to retrieve and process the news. This article also acts as a good introduction to ActiveX controls if you have never created one before.
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Simple DOM Access
by David NishimotoThe Simple DOM Access (SDA) provide a very abstract perspective for interacting with an xml structure. In this tutorial, David demonstrates how to use the Microsoft XMLDOM ActiveX object and JavaScript to provide simple DOM access to an XML document.
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REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 - why REST based services?
by Richard BlewettWhy has REST been getting so much attention recently? It's no accident that Yahoo, Google and Amazon have chosen not to use SOAP to expose their APIs. Learn some of the issues of using SOAP, and how a RESTful based architecture can resolve some of these.
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OpenXML - Open for business
by Matt NicholsonThe new file format introduced with the 2007 Microsoft Office System opens up many business opportunities. Matt Nicholson finds out who is doing what.
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XML Serialization in .NET
by Anthony HartIn the past, maintaining the state of an object in ASP often required some very inventive and painstaking code. In the brave new world of .NET, however, Object Serialization offers us a comparatively easy way to do just that, as well as some other useful tasks.
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) Tutorial
by Gez LemonAn introduction to the basics of XML, covering attributes, elements, document type definitions and XSL stylesheets.