
By Sanda Borlea on November 12, 2009
As many other times, I came across this issue having to begin at the wrong end, i.e. having the result and in need of the problem. The samples and recommended procedures offer – as in most cases – only the simplest examples. The workaround is often tedious and in absence of feedback uncertain.
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By Sanda Borlea on November 29, 2008
Recently needed some quick method to use objects generated from an existing xml file without bothering to create an xml schema for it. After a few attempts and searching for explanations why a simple task like this wouldn´t work, finally put the steps together:
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By Armand Niculescu on August 13, 2007
One of the things I’ve always loved about Flash was the transparency regarding the player version penetration, adoption rates, geographical data and so on. The way we could relatively easy decide what Flash version to target, e.g. “should we use AS3/Flash9 for this project considering that it’ll be completed in 4 months?” Is there something [...]
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By Armand Niculescu on January 18, 2007
MS SQL has the ability to retrieve data as XML by using the “FOR XML [RAW | AUTO [ELEMENTS] | EXPLICIT]” parameters, which is very useful especially when used in a web service that communicates with a Flash / Flex client as the results don’t have to be converted, but just output to the client. [...]
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