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 (3461 KB) Columns 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