Lecture #4 - XML

Web Resources:

Office Hours:   Instructor & TAs

Content:

1. The Syllabus describes topics to be covered, reading material for you to digest before coming to class, and due dates for the assigned projects.
2. Project #2 
Hold-overs from last lecture:
3. Method Parameters Demo
4. Form-Invoke Demo
5. Programming C#, IDisposable Interface, Implementing IDisposable
.Net on other platforms:
6. Mono Project
   
7. dotGNU documentation
   A well designed alternative to the Microsoft .Net documentation. You can also find this link on the SWDev Page
XML - Extensible Markup Language:
8. XML Tutorials

   W3schools - basic
   University of Aarhus
   XMLFiles
   XML Tutorial
   XML Schemas
   

9. Unicode Tutorials

   Unicode terms and links
   Unicode Standard
   W3C Character Model
   

10. XSLT Tutorials

    htmlLite - basics
    zvon - complete tutorial
    W3C - thorough and formal
    XSL Tricks
    TopXML
    Michael Kay's overview
    Google XSL Links
    

11. Mike Woodring's .Net Samples
    
12. Tagged Languages
    
13. XML Presentation
    
14. XML Demonstration Code
    
15. XML - additions, deletions, and modifications
    
16. XSLT Demonstration
    
17. XML Details Presentation
    
18. Uses for XML
    • Small databases - bug trackers, requirements models, project data
    • Representations for graphical data in Computer-Aided Design systems
    • Test data - acquiring structured data from a file, used to drive test procedures
    • Persistent data - save data generated by an analysis program for further analysis by other programs
    • Messaging - constructing structured messages for transmission over sockets or remoting channels
19. Loading Dynamic Link Libraries Demo
    
20. Creating AppDomains Demo
    
21. Plug-in Demo
    
22. Evaluating code projects - Cyclomatic Complexity, Size, Manual and Maintenance Pages, demonstration of requirements
23. Lecture #4 folder contains a page of links to presentations and code discussed in this class. The Lecture folders will occasionally hold physical files of interest as well. Usually, however, all the materials of interest to the class are in the presentations and code folders. The contents of these folders will grow as you progress through the course.