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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This CODE Focus Issue takes a close look at Visual FoxPro 8.0 and all its new features.This is the ad-free version of this publication.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 8For more information, visit www.codemag.com

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This CODE Focus Issue takes a close look at Visual FoxPro 8.0 and all its brand new features.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 8For more information, visit www.codemag.com

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This special edition of CODE Focus covers Database AccessibilityThis is the ad-free version of this publication.Table of Contents:*) Welcome Letter*) An Entity Data Model for Relational Data Part I: Defining the Entity Data Model*) An Entity Data Model for Relational Data Part II: Mapping an Entity Data Model to a Relational Store*) Programming Against the ADO.NET Entity Framework*) Rich Query for DataSet- An Introduction to LINQ to DataSet*) LINQ to Relational Data: Who’s Who?*) Browsing Windows Live Expo with LINQ to XML*) ADO.NET Data Services*) Caching with SQL Server Compact and the Microsoft Sync Framework for ADO.NET*) Introducing the Microsoft Sync Framework: Next Generation Synchronization Framework*) What’s New in SQL Server 2008?*) Programming SQL Server 2008*) Use SQL CLR 2.0-Advancing CLR Integration in SQL Server 2008*) Visual Studio 2008: RAD Gets RADer*) The Data Dude Meets Team Build*) XML Tools in Visual Studio 2008*) ODBC Rocks!*) TESLA: Democrat (more…)

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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