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CODE Magazine – the Leading Independent Magazine for .NET Developers. This issue features various articles around Web 2.0 development, as well as other .NET articles.

Table of Contents:
*) Yes, We Can! 2009 Will Be Great!
*) Successful Software Development
*) SharePoint Applied: SharePoint 2007 with WCF and Silverlight
*) Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)
*) Silverlight Enabled Live Search
*) Building Domain Specific Languages in C#, Part 2
*) Programming Twittering with Visual Basic
*) Building Polished UIs with Expression Blend - Part 1
*) Develop Provider-based Features for Your Applications
*) The Zen of Inversion of Control
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) ThoughtWorking: Why The Next Five Years Will Be About Languages

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Customer Reviews (1)

Good magazine for C# Users
Godd magazine for C3 users.Has lots of code, which one would expect with a name like it has. ... Read more

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Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008

This is the ad-free version of this publication.

Table of Contents:
*) Unlearn
*) MVP Corner: A Baker’s Dozen of Reflections
*) 10 Things You Wish they Told You-Part 1
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for SQL Server 2008 and SSRS 2008
*) What’s New in ASP.NET 3.5?
*) Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9
*) Getting Started with Windows Mobile Development
*) Setting Up and Running Subversion and Tortoise SVN with Visual Studio and .NET
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA!
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Beyond the Reach

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This issue of CODE Magazine discusses Rich User Interfaces and other .NET topics.

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Table of Contents:
*) Reflections on 2007
*) Meeting Bill Gates
*) SharePoint Applied - Stsadm Is Your Friend
*) Implementing Drag and Drop in Your Windows Application
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Dashboards with Microsoft BI Tools
*) WPF Meets the iPhone
*) Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 1
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Pablo Castro on Astoria
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Harnessing the Sun

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Discover the New .NET Languages!

Table of Contents:
*) Languages Re-Unleashed
*) MVP Corner: We Are the Masters of the Twitterverse
*) SharePoint Applied: 10 Things You Wish they Told You-Part 2
*) Polyglot Programming: Building Solutions by Composing Languages
*) F# 101
*) Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform
*) Introducing IronPython
*) From Delegate to Lambda
*) Data Access Options in Visual Studio 2008
*) WCF the Manual Way… the Right Way
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Ted Faison on Event-driven Design
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) From the CODE Magazine Mailbag

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This special edition of CODE Focus covers Windows Live

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Table of Contents:
*) 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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Agile Development

Table of Contents:
*) Boy Scouts, D&D, and Community
*) Individuagility
*) SharePoint Applied: CAML, Your New Pet
*) Managing an Agile Software Project
*) Introduction to Scrum
*) Behavior-Driven Development
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
*) Using Continuous Integration to Reduce Project Friction
*) Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 2
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Things Fall Apart

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Special Focus issue on Visual Studio Extensibility

Table of Contents:
*) Have You Xiine It?
*) 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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This issue focuses on WPF and Silverlight as well as other .NET topics.
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Table of Contents:
*) Back to Basics
*) MVP Corner: Good Contracts or Good Friends
*) SharePoint 2007 and the Thin .NET 3.5 Development Model
*) Build Composite WPF Applications
*) Speed Up Project Delivery with Repeatability
*) Using CSLA .NET for Silverlight to Build Line-of-Business Applications
*) Programming with the Microsoft Business Rules Framework
*) Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! James Kovacs Inverts Our Control
*) Have It Your Way
*) Ask the Doc Detective

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The January / February 2008 issue focuses on improving application productivity.

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Table of Contents:
*) It’s an Agile World
*) MVP Corner: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks
*) Never Write an Insecure ASP.NET Application Ever Again
*) Design for Extensibility
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Querying OLAP Databases with MDX
*) C# 3.0 Syntax Additions-Design Guidelines
*) Building WCF Services for Deployment in Transiently Connected Networks
*) CODE on the Road: Code Camps and DevConnections!
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Don Demsak on LINQ to XML
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Visual Basic and Respect

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This issue covers .NET adoption for VFP developers.

Table of Contents:
*) Leveraging Sedna Reporting
*) Welcome!
*) 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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A combination consumer guide and hands-on how-to handbook shows readers how to choose and use notebook and laptop computers, offering advice on maximizing productivity. Original. ... Read more

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Special Issue focusing on Mobile PC Development

Table of Contents:
*) Being Ultra-Mobile
*) 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

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The July/August issue of Component Developer Magazine (CODE) is focused on .NET Framework Classes, and contains several in-depth articles focused on this subject, as well as several general .NET articles.

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Table of Contents:
*) Continuing Education
*) Product News - July/August 2003
*) Using GDI+ in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 2
*) Defining and Using Custom Attribute Classes in C#
*) Cryptography the .NET Way
*) Auto-Deploying Windows Forms .NET Applications: The Revenge of the Fat Client
*) .NET Web Services Security
*) Errors In Your ASP.NET Code? Don't Throw a Fit, Throw an Exception!
*) Mobile CODE.NET: Microsoft Mobility 101
*) Validating Data On Web Forms
*) .Finalize() - Inheritance Is a Wonderful Thing
*) Doc Detective - July/August 2003

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The July / August 2007 issue of CODE Magazine has articles covering BizTalk, data, WinForms, LINQ and more!

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Table of Contents:
*) Seeing the Silverlight
*) MVP Corner: 13 Steps for Building an Article
*) Have You Xiine It?
*) Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, Part 2
*) The Baker’s Dozen: A 13-Step Crash Course for Using LINQ
*) Create a Custom DataGridView Column
*) It All Adds Up
*) Adding Smart Tags to Windows Forms Controls
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Dead Head Bill Wagner
*) CODE on the Road: No Stopping the CODE Team!
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) My Nightmare, and an Apology

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The May/June issue of Component Developer Magazine (CODE) is focused on GDI+, and contains several in-depth articles focused on that subject, as well as several general .NET articles.

Table of Contents:
*) It's the Concept... (Editorial)
*) Product News - May/June 2003
*) The Basics of GDI+
*) Getting Started With Regular Expressions
*) The .NET File System Object Model
*) GDI+ Drawing Page, Part 1
*) Asynchronous Calls in .NET
*) Using GDI+ in ASP.NET Web Applications, Part 1
*) XQuery, the Query Language of the Future
*) Dynamically Adding Wired Controls to Web Forms
*) Handling SQL Server Errors in Nested Procedures
*) Doc Detective - May/June 2003
*) Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines

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

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Table of Contents:
*) 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
*) VFP 8 Tips and Tricks
*) Creating a Statusbar Control with VFP 8

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The May/June issue of CODE Magazine covers distributed computing topics, such as the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF... formerly known as "Indigo"), as well as other, more general .NET development topics.

Table of Contents:
*) ‘For-Each’ Of My Own
*) RAD in the Time of Agile Development
*) MVP Corner: Technology Overload
*) System.Transactions and ADO.NET 2.0
*) Achieving Synchronicity: A Listbox Double-Feature
*) WCF Essentials-A Developer’s Primer
*) SQL Server 2005 Query Notifications Tell .NET 2.0 Apps When Critical Data Changes
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Remoting in Visual Studio 2005
*) Making Sense of the XML DataType in SQL Server 2005
*) Heard on .NET Rocks!: Cogan Rules
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) .Finalize(): Try and Ye Shall Succeed

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This issue covers development on Tablet PCs and Mobile Windows PCs

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Table of Contents:
*) The Modern World of Mobility
*) Welcome Letter from the Tablet PC Team
*) 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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What would make 2004 your best year, technically?

Here’s an idea.  Pick up a copy of PC Magazine’s Technology Almanac 2004 and you’ll get a lot more than 52 weeks of technology trivia, dynamite downloads, and product reviews.  You’ll also receive a free one-year subscription to the print edition of PC Magazine* - A $19.97 value!

PC Magazine’s Technology Almanac 2004 is a feast for technophiles – a daily buffet of commentary, tips, memorable moments in tech history and more, from the experts you know and trust.  All your favorite PC Magazine editors are here --  Bill Machrone, Michael J. Miller, John C. Dvorak, and Bill Howard --  with informative articles;  researched and recommended products, vendors and Web sites;  and their favorite tech tips, all related to a different topic each week.  Technically, it could be the best year of your life!

A sample pla tter of weekly topics:

January 18: Burning CDs

February 15: E-mail: Spam

February 29: Digital Imaging: Improving Your Digital Images

March 7: Networking: Wired

March 14: Internet: Booking Travel Online

March 28: Games: Game Controllers

April 4: Security: Anti-Surveillance Techniques

April 11: Microsoft Office: Excel Tips

April 25: Windows: Registry Tweaks

May 2: Multimedia: MP3s and WMAs

July 18: PDAs: Going Solar

August 22: Building Your Own: PVR

November 14: Upgrading: Optical Drives

December 12: Shopping Online: Finding the Best Gifts

The guy who brought it all together:  BRIAN UNDERDAHL is the well-known, bestselling author of more than 65 books on a broad range of computer topics.  He has appeared on The Computer Chronicles and several TechTV programs.  His books have earned an Award of Merit from the Northern California Technical Communications Competition and a Referenceware Excellence Award.  Brian courageously tackled the task of bringing together this year’s worth of information and spicing it up with his magic touch.

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Customer Reviews (4)

Many essays
A partly whimsical excursion into the nooks and crannies of computing, as offered by the editors of PC Magazine. Ostensibly, for each day in 2004, they offer 2 things. The first is a brief retrospective of a significant event in computing history on that day. Some of these recollections may leave you queasy. Was it really THAT long ago that this [event] happened? Strewth, it feels like yesterday!

But the bulk of the discussion for each day is some recent article from the magazine. There is really little correlation, if any, between it and the nominal day entry under which it appears in this book.

It is really best to treat this book as a stapling of recent articles spanning many computing topics. The quality of the essays is consistently high. There will be an element of serendipity here. Some essays might be spot on to your needs.

Great gift, cool book!
My sister gave me the book yesterday, and I'm hooked.Like the other reviewers, I'm finding myself reading way ahead (I'm up to Valentine's Day already!).

My favorite stuff so far has been the digital camera articles, and the online searching information.I've been a PC Magazine reader for years, and the book totally captures the PC Magazine style - smart, helpful, and exactly what I need.

The biggest surprise when I got the book was that it comes with a free year's subscription to PC Magazine.Very cool!

Good Bye Leo - Hello PC Magazine!
I bought the last 2 versions of Leo Laporte's TechTV book (I even have the one where they misspelled "Almanac" on the cover!) and have been a big fan.But, I have been reading PC Magazine longer than I have Leo's books, and when I discovered this little gem I was very excited.

The PC Magazine Technology Almanac is jam-packed with tips, tricks, and insider information that I can actually use.And I know I am supposed to read it a day at a time, but I find I am already up to March of next year!

And the best part is that is comes with a free subscription to the magazine, so I was able to renew for free!How can you loose?

If you, like me, have been buying Leo's book, take a look at this one from PC Magazine.It is absolutely the better of the 2, and is full of stuff you can really use.

Sorry Leo, but I switched!

I'm already looking forward to the 2005 edition!
I've had this book for about 3 days, and I've been able to gain more useful and helpful information about my computer than you could possibly believe!I know I'm supposed to read it day by by, but I can't help myself - I want more information on improving my digital photos, connecting new peripherals to my system and configuring my personal firewalls and this book has it.I've been reading PC Magazine for years (who hasn't?) and I really trust these folks to provide me the best and most up to date information.Another plus - the "page a day" thing makes it a great holiday gift for anyone in your life - from the friend starting out with a new computers, to the geek you love.This book will allow them to have fun while learning new things - who could ask for more? ... Read more