In this C++ tutorial, learn how to utilize Lambda expressions in your C++ Applications.

An Object Oriented approach to handling XML.

This tutorial shows you how to use Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 to build your first Dynamic Data web application and explore its features.

Serialize and deserialize XML files and XML buffer with this set of macros and classes. The serializer uses ATL String and ATL collections. Get the object representations of XML files and a means to store and load objects to and from XML.

Got XML files? Look no further than libxml2, which gives you both DOM and SAX model XML parsing in a single freeware library that works with most common languages in all popular platforms including Linux and Win32/Win64.

Learn how to write server applications. One of the recurring tasks was dealing with the problem of creating an instance of a class associated with a unique resource of the operating system, such as a file.

Custom controls assist developers in maximizing code reuse and minimizing headaches. Learn the process of creating custom controls within Microsoft's latest UI model, the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

To begin writing raw PDF files, you need a solid working knowledge of PostScript—and that's not pretty. In reality, you need a complete PDF library that handles all your document-creation needs.

Spell checkers for the Visual C++ and Visual Basic developer are plentiful and easy to integrate. So, why not enable your interactive applications to help users look a little smarter?

Learn about a new utility to analyse the data's structure on a DVD.

Win32 has a built-in INI file API, but writing cross-platform code is difficult because these functions aren't available on Linux.

Go one step beyond the Standard Template Library (STL) with the Database Template Library (DTL), which offers many advantages over the traditional procedural approach to database access.

Learn about the differences between little- and big-endian representations.

The STL is primarily made up of templates for containers, iterators, and algorithms, but it also has a few utility templates. Learn more in this excerpt from "Effective C++, Third Edition: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs."

In this follow-up article to learning how to use the XmlTextReader to enumerate the nodes of an XML file, Tom Archer illustrates how to skip non-content and whitespace nodes and how to locate and read attribute values.

BizTalk 2004 Pipelines offer you a great deal of control over the processing of BizTalk 2004 messages. With custom Pipeline components, you can handle non-XML data in BizTalk messages, even when the data is in non-delimited file formats.

Learn new ways to work with Excel spreadsheets through the use of XML.

CXMLMgr is a very simple MSXML 4.0 DOM wrapper class that can be used to manipulate XML files. It can be used in MFC as well as Win32.

XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) is the codename for a new Microsoft markup language used to create UI elements for client applications in the forthcoming Windows release codenamed "Longhorn." The main XAML benefit to developers is that you'll be able to separate the application logic code from presentation code.

Count the number of lines that programmers have developed with a break out for code, comment, and blank lines.

Learn how to perform transformations from XML to HTML with VC++.

The CBigInt class allows the manipulation of extremely large signed integer values. (The source code was updated.)

Homework assignment: A simple solution for converting to Roman Numerals.

See how to serialize primitive types and CObject-derived classes into XML. Includes a demonstration of XML serialization with a CArray-derived template collection class.

How to save a structure into an XML file (using STL), and then load the file back using XML.