July 2007
Mobility: Make Your WPF Apps Power-Aware
Here Andre Michaud shows you how to use power notifications to make your applications power aware. Andre Michaud
Share Code: Write Code Once For Both Mobile And Desktop Apps
If you're building .NET client apps already, target them to Windows Mobile using the same skills and toolsets. Daniel Moth
NTFS: Enhance Your Apps With File System Transactions
Presented here is an overview of Transactional NTFS and how it revolutionizes transactions. Jason Olson
Security: Applying Cryptography Using The CNG API In Windows Vista
Cryptography Next Generation (CNG) is meant to be a long-term replacement for the CryptoAPI, providing replacements for all of the cryptographic primitives it offered. Kenny Kerr
Speak Up: Support Dictation With Text Services Framework
Learn how to make your apps speech-aware by supporting Windows Speech Recognition and the Text Services Framework. Eric Brown
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Editor's Note: What Is Mobility?
Does mobility come from a motorized scooter, a cell phone, or a Pocket PC? It depends on who you are.Joshua Trupin
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Toolbox: Find Bottlenecks, Code Similarities, and More
This month, find performance and memory bottlenecks, essential security reading, and more.Scott Mitchell
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CLR Inside Out: Digging into IDisposable
This month: cleaning up resources that are not garbage collected by the CLR garbage collector.Shawn Farkas
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Data Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
The new Entity Framework in ADO.NET will let you manipulate data using an object model. John Papa explains.John Papa
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Cutting Edge: Context-Sensitive Feedback with AJAX
Beyond progress bars: talking to server-side apps with ASP.NET AJAX.Dino Esposito
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Service Station: WCF Bindings In Depth
The WCF programming model makes it easy to configure services with a variety of wire formats and message protocols, thanks to binding.Aaron Skonnard
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Bugslayer: Wait Chain Traversal
Windows Vista has a new API called Wait Chain Traversal (WCT), which allows you to determine when and why a process is deadlocked. Read on.John Robbins
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Security Briefs: Active Directory Cache Dependencies
If you're not taking advantage of Active Directory, you should be. Learn the benefits from Keith Brown.Keith Brown
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Foundations: Extending the WPF Animation Classes
Learn what the WPF Animation Classes can do, what they can't, and how to extend them.Charles Petzold
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{ End Bracket }: Weaving Your Photos with Photosynth
See what the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research is up to these days.Richard Szeliski
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