MSDN Magazine August 2007

A Sidebar gadget is a powerful little too that's surprisingly easy to create. Get in on the fun with Donavon West.

Markus Egger discusses all the flexibility and power of flow documents in Windows Presentation Foundation

Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) defines a structured means for storing application data together with related resources. Learn about the benefits here.

VSTO brings you the full feature set of Visual Studio including LINQ, WPF, WCF, and the .NET Framework 3.5.

The Excel Services architecture lets users design their own algorithms and share workbooks on a server.

Stephen Toub gets nostalgic as he prepares to leave MSDN Magazine.

Turn boring data into stunning graphs, create, parse, send, and receive mail messages from code, and more.

This month Inbar Gazit shows readers how to get the most out of the System.Collections namespace.

Scott Wisniewski digs into LINQ and builds a custom query provider to create queries in real-world apps.

WSS 3.0 introduces a new deployment mechanism that lets you move your development efforts into a staging or production environment.

This month Dino explains how to remotely cancel tasks running on the server using ASP.NET AJAX.

The Web Service Software Factory is designed to provide guidance and enhanced tools for building Web services using ASMX or WCF.

Juval Lowy designs easily configured security settings for applications built on Windows Communication Foundation.

Stanley B. Lippman explores the use of C++/CLI as a pure Microsoft .NET Framework-compliant language.

With the release of Windows Vista, C++ developers will be happy to know there's plenty of magic left to perform. This new column will provide the necessary insight.

Dependency management, in which one group provides a software component to be utilized by others, can really benefit from some structure and collaborative efforts.