MSDN Magazine July 2007

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Data Points: Data Binding in WPF

WPF is one of the most important new technologies in the .NET Framework 3.0. This month John Papa introduces its data binding capabilities.

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James Avery does it again with his popular list of developer tools. This time he covers the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that you can download for free.

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This article introduces 10 development tools that can increase your productivity, give you a better understanding of .NET, and maybe even change the way that you develop applications. The tools covered include NUnit to write unit tests, Reflector to examine assemblies, FxCop to police your code, Regulator to build regular expressions, NDoc to create code documentation and five more.

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Chris Tavares explains how the ASP.NET MVC Framework's Model View Controller pattern helps you build flexible, easily tested Web applications.

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Design Patterns: Model View Presenter

The MVP pattern helps you separate your logic and keep your UI layer free of clutter. This month learn how.

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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	Toolbox: Find Bottlenecks, Code Similarities, and More This month, find performance and memory bottlenecks, essential security reading, and more. Scott Mitchell	CLR Inside Out: Digging into IDisposable This month: cleaning up resources that are not garbage collected by the CLR garbage collector. Shawn Farkas
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	Cutting Edge: Context-Sensitive Feedback with AJAX Beyond progress bars: talking to server-side apps with ASP.NET AJAX. Dino Esposito	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
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	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	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
{ End Bracket }: Weaving Your Photos with Photosynth See what the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research is up to these days. Richard Szeliski