An XML standard from the Workflow Management Coalition (www.wfmc.org) that provides interoperability between different workflow applications. It is designed to allow third-party software components to be easily integrated into a workflow system. See workflow.
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Snippets Editor (exe)
- Provides the ability to create, edit, delete, and save code snippets for use in Visual Studio. Instructions included for easily integrating the editor into your Visual Studio environment. Snippets can be accessed from Visual Studio via a right-click and dropped into your source code. The editor also allows you to...
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
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- Allows you to easily display your XML in a cleaned-up fashion. XML files and/or text can be easily copied, loaded, or drag-and-dropped onto the icon or surface of the application and the text will be formatted to display cleanly and displayed in both a text and a tree display. From...
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- PDF Info COM Component (zip)
- PDF Info software automates the process of exporting and importing PDF description information and XMP metadata. PDF info contains many special features like removing all XMP metadata and info data, exporting Info data to XML and importing both XML or/and XMP metadata in to a single or a batch list...
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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- Videos 2008-08-20
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- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
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- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Pleasant 'Dream' for HTC, Google: FCC approves
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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- Blog posts 2008-08-17
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- Blog posts 2008-08-16
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
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- Blog posts 2008-08-15
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
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- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- Navicat (Oracle GUI) (exe)
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- Software downloads 2008-08-15
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- Software downloads 2008-08-14
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