Book Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming

• Professional Windows Vista Gadgets Programming covers sidebar and sideshow gadget development each in their own part of the book. Part 1 will cover Sidebar gadgets while Part 2 covers SideShow gadgets. In each part, the book first explains the motivation behind each technology and its features.
• Publisher: Wrox
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047017661X
• Paperback: 379 pages
• Data: December 5, 2007
• Format: PDF
• Some of the specific topics covered include:

1. Sidebar gadgets architecture and components including XML manifest
2. Debugging gadgets in Visual Studio 2005
3. Deploying gadgets
4. The Gadget system APIs
5. Localizing gadgets and sidebar security sidebar projects
6. Sideshow devices, UI components, and SDK
7. Sideshow architecture, managed code, and classes
8. Sideshow simple content format (SCF)
9. Interacting with sideshow devices and handling sideshow device events
10. SideShow projects

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Book Professional Windows Live Programming (Programmer to Programmer)

• Windows Live is the collective name for a group of Microsoft tools whose services and user data are available anywhere-without ever having to install an application.
• This step-by-step guide demystifies the next generation of Microsoft web programming—Windows Live. An exciting new set of tools and features, Windows Live can change the way you design, build, and market web sites. Experienced author Jon Arking presents you with a comprehensive road map to understanding the many hats of Windows Live: business model, online marketplace, development platform, and suite of consumer-oriented web sites.
• Publisher: Wrox
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470110015
• Paperback: 430 pages
• Data: November 5, 2007
• Format: PDF
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