De meeste recente versie van de COMSDK bevat een voorbeeld (gedemonstreerd op SDE’s en DevCon Europe) dat toegang geeft  via de VO RDD’s tot datavanuit een willekeurige COM-Client applicatie. Voorbeelden daarvan zijn VBA (dus de Office applicaties als Word en Excel) maar ook vanuit VB-script.    lees meer...

If you've experimented with Web Services, you might have hit some Microsoft .NET based Web Services which return data all right, but it's in the default XML format from ADO.NET. So you end up with some XML, but you have no clue what to do with it! This article explains how you can take this XML, make sense out of it and even display it in a DBGrid.   lees meer...

Peter van Ooijen looks at Data in .NET. In this article I want to make a first survey of data in .NET. The data format in .NET is XML rather than a specific database. In this story we’ll first see how any object in .NET can represent itself in XML. Next we’ll see how data from a database is read into XML datasets and how big the similarity between the database data and the object data is. To conclude we’ll see how the database adapter transfers any updates in the XML back to the database. In the process we’ll meet several of the many readers and writers .NET uses to transfer data from one point in code to another.   lees meer...