One of the great things about Team Foundation Server (TFS) is its extensibility. People can talk all they want about how "closed" Microsoft software is, but in the majority of cases that's just not ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

Imagine you work for a smaller manufacturer that decides to digitize its product-development process to make it more efficient. To keep costs down, the company wants to use a standard, open language ...

One way to store information in a hierarchical way is in a XML file. XML provides a great way to store objects and their attributes in a plain-text file. Although plain text, XML isn't just some ...