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Excel criticized over ODF interoperability
News Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its ODF implementation within Office 2007 SP2, but says it is an issue inherent with the standard.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Standards, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Interoperability, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, Microsoft Office
Resolve conflicts with XML namespaces
Insight Using XML to define your organization's business data and process information can be difficult when you have overlapping departments and redundant data definitions. XML namespaces can help resolve conflicts.
Build a scalable DNS infrastructure
Insight Learn to build an internal infrastructure that will scale to meet your business needs.
Using Bing from .NET
Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.
Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications
IBM moves into cloud storage
News Smart Business Storage Cloud pulls together IBM technologies to allow businesses to set up private clouds where they can store and archive petabytes of data.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data Management, Authentication, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Archiving, Storage, storage system, Cloud computing, Consulting
Al Gore backs environmental top-level domain
News Al Gore and his philanthropic organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are supporting a group applying for the top-level domain .eco.
Tags: Domain names, Domain, ICANN, Al Gore, entrepreneur, partnership, Internet, Web Site, alliance, Web
Open-source leaders see Microsoft-TomTom suit as a threat
News Community pushing open and free software prepares to defend itself in light of Microsoft's "antagonistic" litigation involving Linux.
Tags: Patents, Lawsuits, Open source, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Open-source Software, TomTom, open-source leader, software, Linux Community
Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate
Techguide Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Code, C, Method, XML file, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, network management, business logic, blogging
Using the Share and Storage Management Console
Techguide Microsoft has made a number of improvements to the venerable File Services role. Find out what to do with the enhanced capabilities.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003, Role, Volume, Storage Management, File Server, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Permission, NTFS Permission, Resource
Developers split on proposed Web language standard
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Developers split on proposed Web language standard
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Developers split on proposed Web language standard
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Create a proxy to consume .NET Web services
Techguide Phillip Perkins builds and registers the proxy component for use in VB6, as well as presents sample code for using the proxy within VB6.
Serve with control
Insight With Web services, you need to be sure clients are using the data format the server expects. That's where the emerging WSDL standard comes in. This article gives you a guided tour of the basics of WSDL.
Oracle Tip: Choosing an efficient design for Boolean column values
Techguide When designing a database table structure, it's important to choose an efficient strategy for storing a logical Boolean that you can use in many programming environments. Find out how from this Oracle expert.
Tags: Database management, Databases
