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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Who We AreemPower is a strong, upbeat, voice that praises Black accomplishments, deals with the day-to-day challenges facing people of African descent, and highlights community organizations and individuals who are giving back.Why We WriteemPower’s mission is to not only deliver timely and thought-provoking articles and advice, but to also challenge readers to take action.Our MissionemPower collaborates with non profit organizations so emPower readers can become active participants in their communities by donating their time, talents or money. Each year, the magazine will focus on one issue or cause. By having feature articles, blogs, and short documentaries on the spotlighted subject once a month, this will allow readers to become educated and thus become social changers. In 2009, the focus will be on HIV/AIDS in the African American community and in Africa. Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connec (more…)

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…)