http://www.devshed.com XML - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:09 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:09 -0500 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:00:01 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Flex-Array-Collection-Sort-and-Filtering/?kc=rss - If you're already familiar with Flex and ActionScript, you will know how useful the listBase controls are to fast RIA development. When working with the List, Tree, DataGrids and other controls, you may first be looking to get over the hump of populating your control with the correct data. Under...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Flex-Array-Collection-Sort-and-Filtering/?kc=rss Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/The-Flex-Tree-Control/?kc=rss - The Flex Tree Control is a fundamental user interface component to application building. It naturally organizes hierarchical data into branches and leaf nodes, forming easily organized data. Modern day interfaces like operating systems and websites commonly employ some version of a Tree because of i...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/The-Flex-Tree-Control/?kc=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Flex-List-Controls/?kc=rss - Creating a Basic List with XML Data Whether you're developing large scale applications or just quick tools, you'll more than likely need to use a list when developing your applications. In this article, I cover the creation of a basic List Control with data population via XMLList. In my next articl...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Flex-List-Controls/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Working-with-Flex-and-Datagrids/?kc=rss - Creating a Basic Data Grid Flex provides an MXML tag to create a DataGrid. Here is our application, with the DataGrid colored in blue: lt;?xml version= quot;1.0 quot; encoding= quot;utf-8 quot;? gt; lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx= quot;http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml quot; layout= quot;absolu...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Working-with-Flex-and-Datagrids/?kc=rss Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/How-to-Set-Up-Podcasting-and-Vodcasting/?kc=rss - At its most basic level, a Podcast or Vodcast is simply an RSS feed. Users can subscribe to your feed through any of the standard RSS methods including news aggregators and readers and browser plug-ins such as Live Bookmarks. To begin, you first need to determine what media you wish to present to...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/How-to-Set-Up-Podcasting-and-Vodcasting/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:47 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Creating-an-RSS-Reader-Application/?kc=rss - The Application The layout of the application is going to be very simple: A navigation bar on the left and a display area in the center. The display area is were we are going to display all the output of the code. I've not used any CSS in this application. I've instead opted to use HTML formatting ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Creating-an-RSS-Reader-Application/?kc=rss Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:00:47 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Building-an-RSS-File/?kc=rss - What is RSS? RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. It is used to provide information about your website to the world. There is not really any difference between an XML document and an RSS document; in fact most people would agree that RSS is an XML dialect. All RSS documents must conform...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Building-an-RSS-File/?kc=rss Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:00:01 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-6/?kc=rss - CSS, as you know, will change the appearance of any given element on screen. XBL is a method of changing the behavior of any given element. You could use a binding to add specific elements that were rendered automatically when your binding element was described in the XUL file. XBL is used in ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-6/?kc=rss Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:00:01 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-5/?kc=rss - All applications need a way or warning users that something is about to happen, or that something has happened. If youre working in a word-processing application and you try to exit the application without saving your work, youll get a message advising that youll lose your data if you dont save it,...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-5/?kc=rss Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-4/?kc=rss - Aside from some other, more advanced elements which will be discussed later on, the elements looked at so far are pretty much all of the elements that actually draw the various things that make up an interface on the screen. There are, however, a couple of advanced elements that not only render obj...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-4/?kc=rss Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:00:01 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-3/?kc=rss - Now that youre a little more familiar with the elements that make up the interface, its time to look at some of the more advanced layout elements you have at your fingertips with XUL. In most of these examples, Ive omitted the default opening and closing window elements to reduce repetition. You...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-3/?kc=rss Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:01 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-2/?kc=rss - In addition to standard buttons, you can easily add other types of buttons using the type attribute; you can create buttons that behave as checkboxes so that any number of these types of button can be in a selected/pressed state at any one time, similar to the B, I, and A buttons in a document editi...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-2/?kc=rss Mon, 23 May 2005 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-1/?kc=rss - Many of you may not have heard of XUL. I hadnt until recently. If, like me, youre excited by the prospect of making rich user interfaces, quickly and easily, using nothing but a simple text editor, then youll want to learn all about XUL, because thats exactly what its for. Its pronounced to rhyme ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/An-Introduction-to-XUL-Part-1/?kc=rss Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:01:01 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/XML-Matters-Practical-XML-data-design-and-manipulation-for-voting-systems/?kc=rss - For the last 11 months, I been involved in an organization called the Open Voting Consortium (OVC) and an associated Free Software project called EVM2003. The OVC's aim is to replace the closed-source electronic voting machines from proprietary vendors, specifically those that fail to provide a vote...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/XML-Matters-Practical-XML-data-design-and-manipulation-for-voting-systems/?kc=rss Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:00:02 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Practical-XML-Data-Design-and-Manipulation-for-Voting-Systems/?kc=rss - For the last 11 months, I been involved in an organization called the Open Voting Consortium (OVC) and an associated Free Software project called EVM2003. The OVC's aim is to replace the closed-source electronic voting machines from proprietary vendors, specifically those that fail to provide a vote...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/XML/Practical-XML-Data-Design-and-Manipulation-for-Voting-Systems/?kc=rss