Typically, writing programs for Web browsers means that you don't have access to a user's computer and file system. But by using ActiveX objects on Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, you can ...

Microsoft was awarded on Tuesday a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, so making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer.

One of the benefits of learning how to read XML is the ability to gather useful data from a variety of sources. For example, your application might need ticket information from music site that hosts a ...