Databinding has to be just about one of the coolest features in Flex 2, allowing you to bind a property to the value of a property of another object. When the property of that object is updated, the value of the bound property will automatically be updated. This is mainly used in Flex to update UI components when the data for the model changes.
Unfortunately databinding doesn't work for read-only properties. A read-only property (by my definition) is a private instance variable of a class that has a getter function without a matching setter function.
XML Linking, formerly known as XLink and as XLL (the eXtensible Linking Language), is a work in progress of the Web Consortium. It is closely related to the XML Recommendation, but adds functionality for high-function hypertext and hypermedia. It is now an independent Working Group, but its projects were started under the main XML Working Group, and progressed to solid Working Drafts there before being handed off to the new XML Linking Working Group.
The work of this WG has two parts: XLink proper provide advanced linking capabilities such as
Summary:
LINQ to XML was developed with Language-Integrated Query over XML in mind and takes advantage of standard query operators and adds query extensions specific to XML. The samples in most of this document are shown in C# for brevity.
Introduction:
XML has achieved tremendous adoption as a basis for formatting data whether in Word files, on the wire, in configuration files, or in databases; XML seems to be everywhere. Yet, from a development perspective, XML is still hard to work with. If you ask the average software developer to work in
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