Best-selling programming author Peter G. Aitken has written two books in one: an outstanding tutorial on XML and related standards, and the world's most comprehensive guide to XML's use with advanced Microsoft technologies. The book begins with a systematic introduction to XML: its key standards and how it may be used to solve a wide range of development and integration problems. Aitken introduces basic XML syntax, data modeling with XDR and XSD schemas, formatting with cascading style sheets; XSL, XSLT, and XSL-FO; XLink and XPointer; DOM, SAX, and SOAP. Once you've gained a solid foundation of knowledge about XML and its key complementary technologies, Aitken shows how Microsoft puts them to work. You'll understand XML's role in .NET and its uses in the new C# language; create XML and XHTML-based Web pages for display in Internet Explorer; leverage XML in the Visual Basic.NET and Visual C++ .NET programming environments; master scripting techniques for Microsoft servers; work with Microsoft's BizTalk Server; and finally, learn how to make the most of Microsoft Office XP's enhanced XML support. For every Web professional and application developer using Microsoft Windows and/or .N ET tools and technologies.
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"XML--the Microsoft Way is a must-have for any IT library."
--Duane Nickull, CTO, XML Global Technologies, and Chief Technical Editor, XSLT.com
As a core part of many new and important technologies, XML is a must-know tool for all programmers creating network- and Web-enabled applications for the Windows platform. This complete, comprehensive, and up-to-date book presents a thorough examination of the fundamentals of standard XML, essential related technologies, and the use of XML within a Microsoft-specific development environment.
Appropriate for beginning to intermediate XML programmers, XML--the Microsoft Way explains XML concepts and guides developers who need to learn XML development skills. The book begins with a background on the history of XML and offers clear explanations and examples of its most important elements: syntax, data modeling, formatting, templates, linking, and more. Later chapters address advanced topics, focusing on Microsoft's tools for XML development.
You will find thorough coverage of such important topics as:
- XML Schema, Namespaces, XLink, and XPointer
- Data modeling with DTDs, XDR Schemas, and XSD Schemas
- Cascading Style Sheets
- eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), XSL Transformation (XSLT), and Formatting Objects (FO)
- The Document Object Model (DOM)
- Simple API for XML (SAX)
- The Microsoft SOAP (Simplified Object Access Protocol) Toolkit
- eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
- Visual Basic and Visual C++ with XML
- The .NET Framework and XML
- Internet Explorer and Dynamic HTML
Numerous code examples--primarily in Visual Basic, although many are in Visual C++ and C#--appear throughout the book to illustrate important techniques. The combination of clear explanations, real-world examples, and a Microsoft-based focus make XML--the Microsoft Way an essential addition to any Windows programmer's library.
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About the Author
Peter G. Aitken is Proprietor of PGA Consulting, providing application and Internet development and technical writing services to industry, academia, and government since 1994. He has authored more than thirty books, including Office XP Development with VBA (Prentice Hall, 2002), Teach Yourself Internet Programming with Visul Basic .NET in 21 Days (Sams, 2002), and Learn Visual Basic .NET Programming with Peter Aitken (Coriolis, 2002). He is a regular contributor to Microsoft Office Solutions magazine and DevX.com. He can be reached at peter@pgacon.com.
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Good review of using XML for Microsoft Developers,
By Martin Ritchie (Kitchener, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: XML The Microsoft Way (Paperback)
Although at work we use Microsoft products almost exclusively for development we have not yet moved to .NET. Despite this it was becoming important to gain a better understanding of XML technologies as some of our projects were begining to incorperate them. I wanted a book that went over XML fundamentals paying particular attention to how they are used by pre Visual Studio.NET development tools. As a developer who works primarily in Visual Basic 6.0 it was important that the book also use that language for most of the examples.This book covers about 80% of what I wanted. Having read it and worked through a few examples I am starting to use some of the tools within my applications. There was very little information in the book that was not useful in my understanding of the topic. Having said that there was a major ommision. The book gave very little coverage to how to use XML with databases, SQL Server in particular. I don't think that there was a single mention of SQL Server 2000's XML features, something that is at the heart of the Microsoft XML world. In a related issue the coverage of xml features in ADO 2.x was also non-existent. In short, the book is full of usefull information for 'real world' developers. It could however use an additional chapter or two on using XML with SQL server 2000 and another chapter on using XML with ADO 2.x
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