- Building Plugins with C# Part 4: Logging and Deployment
- Sep 17, 2004
- We finish up our series on building plug-ins with an demonstration of logging techiques and an introduction to deployment methodologies. In other words, you'll learn what to do when things go wrong, and you'll find out how to get the plug-in in the hands of your users.
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- Building Plugins with C# Part 3: Adding LDAP, SQL, and Configuration
- Sep 10, 2004
- Feeling smarter, yet? In this continuing series, you'll learn how to use inheritance to re-use code, and how your applications can load their own configuration files. You'll also learn more about doing LDAP authentication and connecting to a database to run a stored procedure.
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- Creating a Tree View of XML Data in Visual Studio .NET
- Sep 10, 2004
- John Mueller shows how a tree view of your XML data can help you display the details with greater ease and examine those details with greater clarity.
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- Building Plugins with C# Part 2: Making Additions with XML
- Sep 3, 2004
- In this second part in our plug-in series, you'll learn how to use an XML file to validate users, and find out how—and why—to add a new configuration section handler.
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- Introduction to Web Services Technologies: SOA, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
- Sep 3, 2004
- Thomas Erl delves into the concepts and technology behind Web services, including Web services and the service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI).
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- Building Plugins with C# Part 1
- Aug 27, 2004
- Interested in building plug-ins, but not sure where to start? In this first article in a four-part series, you'll learn how to put together a simple authentication plug-in for a project in C#.
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- Creating a Secure Development Framework
- Aug 27, 2004
- Business applications can be weak spots in an otherwise secure network, but in this article, Glyn Geoghegan explains how to keep your applications as secure the rest of your IT infrastructure.
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- Using the SOAP Protocol with Java
- Aug 13, 2004
- When you're through with this sample book chapter, you'll know not only how to use SOAP straight out of the box but also how to extend SOAP to support your diverse and changing needs. You'll have also followed the development of a meaningful e-commerce Web service in Java.
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- DocBook Conversions with XFC
- Aug 6, 2004
- Converting DocBook XML files to other formats requires several tools, time spent configuring those tools, and a bit of work at the command line. Technical writer Scott Nesbitt introduces a different way of converting DocBook files: the XMLmind FO Converter.
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- Creating Presentations with OperaShow
- Jul 23, 2004
- While PowerPoint is a popular slide-making tool that's packed with bells and whistles, it's not always the best tool for creating presentation slides. Scott Nesbitt looks at OperaShow, a unique feature of the Opera web browser that turns the software into a presentation powerhouse.
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- N1 Grid Architecture Realized: Strategic Flexibility
- Jul 16, 2004
- Architectural solutions must solve the problems of cost and complexity and then strive to develop the business and IT linkage to its fullest extent. That is the central theme of the Sun N1 Grid architectural solution, explained here.
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- Performance and Load-Testing of Axis with Various Web Services Styles
- Jul 16, 2004
- Rajal Shah and Naresh Apte evaluate the performance and load-testing characteristics of various styles of web services with Axis.
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- Cleaning Your Web Pages with HTML Tidy
- Jul 2, 2004
- Even with the push for web standards, many web pages are still plagued by sloppy coding. Technical writer Scott Nesbitt looks at fixing problems with HTML files using HTML Tidy.
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- The Foundations of Distributed Message-Level Security
- Jun 11, 2004
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- Definition and Ownership of Web Service Interfaces: WSDL or XSD?
- Jun 4, 2004
- Continuing their architectural discussion of using the web services layer as a pure packaging strategy of a business module, Rajal Shah and Naresh Apte evolve the architecture further in this article to discuss message interfaces. If you already have XML-based messages as an interface to your module, the XSD for the messages could also be the web service interface for the module.
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- Content Management Options for .NET Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites
- May 28, 2004
- If you're designing, developing, and implementing Web portals using Microsoft servers and the .NET Framework, at some point you'll need to put stuff on your site. (Well, duh.) The Microsoft .NET platform offers several content management options, and this sample book chapter will give you an exhaustive overview of the choices.
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- .NET Tools for Working with XML
- May 21, 2004
- .NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. This article provides an overview of the most important of these classes, and some examples of what you can do with them.
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- The Quickest Route To Implementing Web Services
- May 13, 2004
- Merrick Stemen looks at the fastest, easiest way to program web services and offers examples implemented in the Water language. This article compares a Water language web server program with the equivalent Java programming.
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- Navigation in XQuery
- May 7, 2004
- This chapter explores how XQuery provides a litany of navigation expressions. It is designed to be a language in which queries are concise and easily understood. It is also flexible enough to query a broad spectrum of XML information sources, including both databases and documents.
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- The Great XML-Access Database Exchange
- May 7, 2004
- With the latest releases of Access, you can export database data from Access to XML format for use in a web site, export data to other databases, and even import XML data from a web site right back into your Access database. This means ease of recordkeeping for a small business gathering sales over the Internet, or the collection of feedback from uses of your web site into your database for analysis and safekeeping.
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