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XML-based Model Driven Development can be a simple, but very powerful alternative to the UML-based MDA and can result in significantly increased productivity, clean and robust designs and improved system...
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This is another in our series about Microsoft Longhorn, also known as Server 2008. In this series we break down the most important components of Longhorn and give listeners the...
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A leading national large-format retailer of home textiles, housewares and decorative home accessories has over 400 stores in the United States and Canada. The home retailer's expansion made limitations inherent...
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Memory issues in Java applications can cripple performance and cost your business time and money - so proper Java memory analysis is crucial. However, identifying Java memory leaks isn't easy...
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Research Director, Inc. (RDI), one of the largest radio-research consulting firms in the United States, produces large, complex presentations that provide radio-audience data for its customers once every quarter. Faced...
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The DAISY Consortium develops and promotes DAISY (the Digital Accessible Information System), the world's most widely used assistive reading technology for the print disabled. The consortium wanted a solution that...
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Office 2007's new file format, Open XML, provides many improvements to document creation, handling, and security. This webcast takes a close look at the changes in format, as well as...
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XML has quickly become the new data structure standard for everything from database access to cross-platform computing. XML is typically considered to be a vehicle for data exchange, dynamic data...
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Microsoft introduced XML-related capabilities in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the FOR XML and OPENXML Transact-SQL keywords, which enabled developers to write Transact-SQL code to retrieve a query result as...
The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups. Last Tuesday, members of the ISO and the IEC ratified the file format.
Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software, developed by a France-based Microsoft...
Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters will move past simply opening documents and...
Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards, said: "We support the Commonwealth's proposal to add Ecma Office Open XML File Formats to the list of approved standards, as this would give users the ability to choose...
Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conforming with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown is more optimistic: "Given Microsoft's proven ability to...
Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues. Microsoft's director of standards, Jason Matusow, said Microsoft deciding to support ODF was not about one format...