August 2007 Gadgets: Build Your Own Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget A Sidebar gadget is a powerful little too that's surprisingly easy to create. Get in on the fun with Donavon West. Donavon West WPF: Flexible Content Display With Flow Documents Markus Egger discusses all the flexibility and power of flow documents in Windows Presentation Foundation Markus Egger OPC: A New Standard For Packaging Your Data Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) defines a structured means for storing application data together with related resources. Learn about the benefits here. Jack Davis and Andrey Shur Office Apps: Extend Your VBA Code With VSTO VSTO brings you the full feature set of Visual Studio including LINQ, WPF, WCF, and the .NET Framework 3.5. Paul Stubbs and Kathleen McGrath Excel Services: Develop A Calculation Engine For Your Apps The Excel Services architecture lets users design their own algorithms and share workbooks on a server. Vishwas Lele and Pyush Kumar (1291 KB) Columns Editor's Note: Thanks for the Memories! Stephen Toub gets nostalgic as he prepares to leave MSDN Magazine. Stephen Toub Toolbox: Create Graphs, Send E-Mail, Spell-Check, and More Turn boring data into stunning graphs, create, parse, send, and receive mail messages from code, and more. Scott Mitchell CLR Inside Out: Collections Best Practices This month Inbar Gazit shows readers how to get the most out of the System.Collections namespace. Inbar Gazit Basic Instincts: Query Comprehensions Scott Wisniewski digs into LINQ and builds a custom query provider to create queries in real-world apps. Scott Wisniewski Office Space: Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007 WSS 3.0 introduces a new deployment mechanism that lets you move your development efforts into a staging or production environment. Ted Pattison Cutting Edge: Canceling Server Tasks with ASP.NET AJAX This month Dino explains how to remotely cancel tasks running on the server using ASP.NET AJAX. Dino Esposito Extreme ASP.NET: Web Client Software Factory The Web Service Software Factory is designed to provide guidance and enhanced tools for building Web services using ASMX or WCF. Fritz Onion Foundations: Declarative WCF Security Juval Lowy designs easily configured security settings for applications built on Windows Communication Foundation. Juval Lowy Netting C++: Configuration with XML Stanley B. Lippman explores the use of C++/CLI as a pure Microsoft .NET Framework-compliant language. Stanley B. Lippman Windows with C++: Windows Vista Control Enhancements With the release of Windows Vista, C++ developers will be happy to know there's plenty of magic left to perform. This new column will provide the necessary insight. Kenny Kerr { End Bracket }: Dependency Management Dependency management, in which one group provides a software component to be utilized by others, can really benefit from some structure and collaborative efforts. Eric N. Bush