I chose to write this class library because all the articles and recommendation I found and were told at MSDN events recommended storing this Salt in a DBMS. I was writting an ASP.NET application where I wanted to use XML files for storage of usernames and passwords. Storing Salts in the same XML file isnt recommended, but I also didnt think it was secure storing them in any XML file "plainly". I decided to write a class that would generate the salt, merge it with the string, encrypt the string, take the salt and place it in a RANDOM location in the hash, save the hash. This allowes me to store the HASH in one XML file and makes the Salt far more secure since it has to be found in the HASH string first, very difficult to do. Also since the HASH string looks so similar to regular MD5 HASH strings its hard to determine when this method is actually being used.

The CreateSubscription web service method requires careful setup to work correctly. In this article we will demonstrate how to create a report subscription with the web service API using the XmlSerializer.

In ASP.NET, how can I create an XmlDocument instance from an XML string? Similarly, given an XML string, how can I display the data in a data Web control?

This article deals with some performance tuning based upon the undeniably cool ConvertRStoXML() function developed and described by Scott Mitchell in Creating a Function to Stream a Recordset to XML. This article will not cover the basics of XML and the principle and reasoning behind having such a function as these topics are covered nicely in the first article, so read it first!

Did you know that the ADO Recordset contains a Save method that can save the contents of a Recordset to an XML file? In fact, in an upcoming article on 4Guys this method will be discussed. One disadvantage of using this approach, though, is that the XML produced by the Recordset is anything but readable. Plus, there is a ton of information there, describing gobs of data for each column in the Recordset (its data type, precision, NULLability, maxlength, etc.). Additionally, when saving a Recordset to XML, the XML node names are archaic: each row's node name is z:row; the parent node is named rs:data.

There have been several articles on 4Guys on retrieving XML from an ADO Recordset. Scott Mitchell's article Creating a Function to Stream a Recordset to XML examined how to use the MSXML COM components to convert a Recordset into an XML string. David O'Neill extended Scott's article in Increasing ConvertRStoXML() Performance and, in Simplifying ConvertRStoXML() and Transforming With XSL, looked at how to simplify the entire process by using an XSL stylesheet.

XML 1.1 is fairly controversial: it just adds some niche features that most people don't need. We recently added some XML 1.1 support to Topologi's XML editor; I was surprised by how straightforward it was, but also perhaps premature.

The .NET Framework has built-in support for XML processing. Discover how to use XML in .NET and what these benefits can do for you.

There has been dicussion (and people have noticed) about a Connected Page Viewer Webpart. There are several viable approaches to this scenario. One is to use cross-page connected webparts, but those require FrontPage interaction. There has been suggested that inheritance can be used from the PageViewerWebPart. Good luck: It's sealed.

Nowadays XML is the de facto standard for exchanging data between different systems and platforms, so providing a mechanism that allows us to import XML is very useful. In this case study, Giuseppe Naccarato will be using the XmlReader object and reflection to build a powerful general-purpose component for mapping XML to C# objects.

Taking advantage of both the new set of classes introduced by .NET to manage XML and SQL Server 2000 XML features, Carlos Walzer will explain how to create a generic aspx page to add reporting capabilities to an ASP.NET site. This reporting aspx page is the result of combining System.Xml.XmlTextReader, XSLT, streams, and stored procedures that return XML using the FOR XML clause.

Sarvega™, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance XML networking solutions, announced today the integration of its XML Guardian™ Gateway with Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) from Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), providing customers a comprehensive solution for processing, securing and managing XML-based Web Services. Using CA’s new WSDM 3.1 Observer Development Kit (ODK), integration between the two products will deliver native Web services management capabilities from within the XML Guardian Gateway.

Learn the difference between typed datasets and classes generated by the xsd.exe tool, as well as how to extend this code generation process by reusing the infrastructure classes supporting it, while remaining compatible with the XmlSerializer.

.NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. This article provides an overview of the most important of these classes, and some examples of what you can do with them.

This sample shows how you can obtain a Dataset from (in this case) a SQL Server database, and then write it out to an XML Document. As an "Extra Added Bonus(tm)", it can show you how to write the schema as well. The SQL Server database in question is the venerable and useful Northwind database.

There is always been a need that there will be an intelligent middle Layer between Database Server and the UI Code. There are many ways but one fantastic approach came in picture with the XML. There are rich classes in System.XML which make it pretty simple and effective. Here i had made a similar application where I am solving two purpose. One thing is still the things has not come as Code Behind Approach in case of Mobile Forms and whatever till now we had done is not recognized under that approach.

.NET Beta 2 was released yesterday at tech-ed, 2001, Atlanta. Many things have been changed in Beta 2 since Beta 1. In this article, I'll cover changes in XmlNavigator class replaced with XPathNavigator.

I have developed a C# component that converts objects to an XML stream and vice versa. The main .NET focus is on System, System.Reflection and System.XML assemblies. The user has access to a default constructor and four public methods; two methods to create an XML stream or file from an object and two that creates an object from from an XML file or stream

Here is something really wonderful in Mobile field .This example is for authenticating the Mobile Users against his settings stored in XML file. This is really good where all the ease of XML is applied. Function open the XML file and particular node data validate it against user inputs and do the specified.