Initiate reliable, stable communication between SWFs and the containers that love them using Flash 8's new ExternalInterface class.

Tapestry is a powerful and innovative framework for developing component-based Web applications. With Tapestry 4, things get even better.

Native Windows installers offer unparalleled integration with the operating system, as well as familiar installation for users. Learn how to build a native Windows installer for an SWT application using open source tools.

Converting files between flat-file, PDF, EDI, XML and other formats no longer has to be a complex manual programming chore. GoXML lets you create mappings visually to simplify all your transformation tasks.

StAX (the Streaming API for XML) is a memory-efficient, simple, and convenient way to process XML while retaining control over the parsing and writing process.

See how the development process in BizTalk Server 2006 makes it easier to include Web services in your orchestrations.

Speech-enabled applications require specialized grammars that clearly define the types of input they're expected to parse and understand. Find out how to build grammars by walking through the process of building a grammar for an order status retrieval system that lets callers retrieve orders by voice.

Many developers are familiar only with the high-level .NET frameworks like Web Forms and Web services that sit at the very top level of the ASP.NET hierarchy. This article discusses the lower-level aspects of ASP.NET and explains how requests move from Web Server to the ASP.NET runtime and then through the ASP.NET HTTP pipeline to process requests.

This tip shared code you can run to list all the cipher suites supported in the Java Secure Socket Extension.

In Part 1 you learned how to build a custom rendered control. In Part 2 you'll learn how to build a composite control.