Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
1:10 pm

This special edition of CODE Focus covers Windows AccessibilityTable of Contents:*) A Letter from the Director of Accessibility at Microsoft*) Open Accessibility*) Accessibility 101*) Windows Automation API 3.0 Overview*) What’s New in Windows 7 Automation API*) Creating Accessibility-aware Silverlight 2 Content*) Making Custom Controls Accessible*) Microsoft Accessibility Testing Tools vs. the Ten-ton Gorilla of Accessibility Guidelines Compliance*) Internet Explorer 8 New Accessibility Features*) A Pragmatic Approach to WPF Accessibility*) Writing a UI Automation Provider for a Win32-based Custom Control*) Creating UI Automation Client ApplicationsFor more information, visit www.codemag.com
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
1:53 pm

This issue focuses on WPF and Silverlight as well as other .NET topics.This is the ad-free version of this publication.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 DetectiveFor more information, visit www.codemag.com
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at
8:32 pm

This issue focuses on WPF and Silverlight as well as other .NET topics.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 DetectiveFor more information, visit www.codemag.com
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at
8:21 pm

Agile DevelopmentThis is the ad-free version of this publication.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 ApartFor more information, visit www.codemag.com
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at
5:24 pm

Special Focus issue on Visual Studio ExtensibilityTable 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 2005For more information, visit www.codemag.com
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