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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
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