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Windows Live Code Focus Edition

Features

• Welcome to the Windows Live Platform CoDe Focus Magazine
• Introduction to Microsoft’s Windows Live Platform
• Live from the Web! Bring the Windows Live Messenger Experience to Your Web Applications
• Virtual Earth-What's New in the Latest Release
• Weaving the Windows Live Services into Your Web Site
• Building Personalized Applications on the Windows Live ID Platform
• Windows Live Delegated APIs
• Light Up the Web-Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
• Developing Plugins for Windows Live Writer
• Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools
• Windows Live Admin Center
• Introduction to the Live Search API

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Data Programability CoDe Focus Issue

Features

• An Entity Data Model for Relational Data Part I: Defining the Entity Data Model
• An Entity Data Model for Relational Data Part II: Mapping an Entity Data Model to a Relational Store
• Programming Against the ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Rich Query for DataSet- An Introduction to LINQ to DataSet
• LINQ to Relational Data: Who’s Who?
• Browsing Windows Live Expo with LINQ to XML
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Caching with SQL Server Compact and the Microsoft Sync Framework for ADO.NET
• Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework: Next Generation Synchronization Framework
• What’s New in SQL Server 2008?
• Programming SQL Server 2008
• Use SQL CLR 2.0-Advancing CLR Integration in SQL Server 2008
• Visual Studio 2008: RAD Gets RADer
• The Data Dude Meets Team Build
• XML Tools in Visual Studio 2008
• ODBC Rocks!
• TESLA: Democratizing the Cloud

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• Welcome Letter

Special Focus issue on Visual Studio Extensibility

Features

• Welcome Letter from the VSX Team
• History of the VS IDE
• Introduction to the Visual Studio 2008 Shell
• How XML Tools Use the Visual Studio SDK
• Visual Studio SDK Tips and Tricks
• Creating and Distributing Packages with the Visual Studio SDK
• Domain-Specific Development in Visual Studio
• Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins
• Learning the Visual Studio SDK with VSSDK Assist
• VSMessenger: Taking the Extensibility Plunge
• XPathmania: Extending the XML Editor in Visual Studio 2005

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• Have You Xiine It?

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Special Issue focusing on Mobile PC Development

Features

• Welcome from the Mobile and Tailored Platforms Group
• How to Be Where Your Customer Wants to Be
• Developing Windows Vista Applications for the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC)
• Windows Vista Mobility: Why Should You Care?
• The Proper Developer Environments for Mobile PC, Tablet PC, and Ultra-Mobile PC Applications
• Adapting Existing Applications to Work on UMPCs
• Introduction to Windows Touch Technology in Windows Vista
• Inking in ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, and IE7
• Basics of Ink in Windows Presentation Foundation
• Exploring Ink Analysis
• Best Practices in Game Design for the Ultra-Mobile PC
• SideShow Development in Depth
• Tablet PC Input Panel Programmability
• Exploring Tablet PC Application Deployment

Columns and Departments

• Being Ultra-Mobile

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This issue covers .NET adoption for VFP developers.

Features

• Leveraging Sedna Reporting
• The Missing LINQ
• From VFP to .NET
• Upsizing Simplified
• Visual FoxPro Web Services Revisited
• Welcome to the Future of Deployment
• The My Namespace in Sedna
• The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Moving from VFP to .NET
• Integrating VFP into VSTS Team Projects
• COM Interop Over Easy
• The New and Improved Data Explorer

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• Welcome!

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This issue covers development on Tablet PCs and mobile WIndows PCs

Features

• Introduction to Tablet PC Development
• Ink Recognition and Ink Analysis
• Get Control and Performance with the Real Time Stylus API
• Ink on the Web
• Ink And The Database
• Scaling and Hit-Testing in Ink Applications
• Know Your Networks
• Power To The People
• Data Access for Partially Connected Applications
• Unveiling Windows SideShow
• Into the Future

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• The Modern World of Mobility
• Welcome Letter from the Tablet PC Team

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This CoDe Focus Issue takes a close look at Visual FoxPro 9.0 and all its brand new features.

Features

• What's New with Data in Visual FoxPro 9?
• Extending the Visual FoxPro 9 Reporting System
• The Visual FoxPro 9 Report Writer
• Controls, Events, Commands, and More
• Visual FoxPro 9 IDE Enhancements
• COM Interop: Making .NET and VFP Talk to Each Other

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• Walking on Cloud 9.0 of Visual FoxPro

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This issue features the first ever published in-depth technical information about Visual Studio Codename "Whidbey" and SQL Server codename "Yukon".

Features

• An Introduction to Visual Studio .NET Whidbey
• Exploring New WinForm Controls in VS .NET Whidbey
• Touring Base Class Library Enhancements
• Creating User-Defined Data Types in Yukon
• Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey
• Three Cool New Features in C#

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• Toys, Toys, Toys

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This CoDe Focus Issue takes a close look at the Microsoft Office 2003 System and all its brand new features.

Features

• Introduction to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
• Smart Tags in Office 2003
• Creating Your Own Research Service for the Microsoft Office 2003 Research Library
• Introducing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
• A Developer's First Look at Web Parts
• Working with Microsoft Office Word 2003's XML
• Using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

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• Microsoft Office System: Connecting People, Information, and Business Processes
• Microsoft Office System: Enabling Developers to Turn Information into Impact

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This CoDe Focus Issue takes a close look at Visual FoxPro 8.0 and all its brand new features.

Features

• VFP 8: A Great Tool For Data-Centric Solutions
• VFP 8: Visual FoxPro's Biggest Update Since Version 3.0
• VFP 8 Feature Highlights
• Collections are Cool!
• Event Binding in VFP 8
• Introducing the CursorAdapter Class
• Structured Error Handling in VFP 8
• Member Classes Bring Flexibility
• The VFP 8 XMLAdapter Class
• My Favorite Feature
• Creating a Statusbar Control with VFP 8

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• VFP 8 Tips and Tricks

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