A year-and-a-half ago, I was ready to bet the farm on XML. I was sure there was just one way to improve Active Server Pages (ASP)—namely, a richer, customizable, application-oriented HTML. This new approach had to be good XML that Extensible Style...
Microsoft released Visual Studio.NET beta 1, and I read the documentation and tested the beta to see how this new development tool will change our lives. The .NET Framework, which is the infrastructure for the overall .NET platform, will be a...
When it comes to scripts, most people think about VBScript versus JScript or some other difference in language. However, the scripting environment has two main components: a language interpreter and a host environment (what I roughly describe as...