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Visual Basic 2010 : Manipulating Documents and Media - Manipulating Documents

To present and browse a flow document, you need to add a FlowDocumentReader control to the user interface. Flexibility and dynamicity are just two benefits of a larger number.

Visual Basic 2010 : Manipulating Documents and Media - Viewing Images & Playing Media

This last topic is also important because documents are one of the most common requirements in modern applications, and WPF provides a way for creating and managing documents that can be dynamically arranged to offer a better user experience.

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Deploying Unattended Installations (part 4) - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

One utility that you can use to help design your network is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit. MAP is a utility that will locate computers on a network and then perform a thorough inventory of them.

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Deploying Unattended Installations (part 3) - Installing the WDS Server Components

The WDS client is the computer on which Windows 7 will be installed. WDS clients rely on a technology called PXE, which allows the client computer to remotely boot and connect to a WDS server.

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Deploying Unattended Installations (part 2) - Using Windows System Image Manager to Create Answer Files

Answer files are automated installation scripts used to answer the questions that appear during a normal Windows 7 installation. You can use answer files with Windows 7 unattended installations, disk image installations, or WDS installations

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Deploying Unattended Installations (part 1)

You can deploy Windows 7 installations or upgrades through a Windows 7 distribution DVD or through a distribution server that contains Windows 7 images and associated files, such as Unattend.xml for unattended installations

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Understanding Organization Charts & Building an Organization Chart by Hand

The only difference between the template called Organization Chart and the one called Organization Chart Wizard is that the latter automatically starts a wizard when you open a new document

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Creating Swimlane Diagrams

One final note about the Visio 2010 take on cross-functional flowcharts: although the end result looks very much as it has in previous versions of Visio, the underlying structure is very different

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Editing Chart Data

The Legend series is the data range displayed on the axis with the legend, while the Horizontal series is the data range displayed on the other axis.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Changing the Chart Background & Enhancing a Chart

If you want to further enhance a chart, you can insert a picture, shape or text annotation to add visual appeal. In the same way you insert a picture, shape, or text box into a worksheet, you can insert them into a chart

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Formatting Chart Text & Formatting Line and Bar Charts

To make chart text more readable, you can use formatting tools on the Home or Format tabs to change the text font, style, and size

Visual Studio 2010 : Building the Windows Container (part 3) - Creating a Multiple Document Interface

You may have used a Windows application where all the application windows are contained within a parent window. An application in which all child windows are contained within a parent window is a Multiple Document Interface (MDI).

Visual Studio 2010 : Building the Windows Container (part 2) - Adding menus and toolbars

The properties of individual items on menu and toolbar controls are easier to manage if you use the Items Collection Editor instead of the Properties window.

Visual Studio 2010 : Building the Windows Container (part 1) - Setting common form properties & Creating dialog boxes

As the container that holds your controls, the Windows Form is one of the most important elements in building Windows applications. The Windows Form is your application's foundation, and it's highly customizable.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Labels to Flowcharts & Understanding Swimlane Diagrams

Swimlane diagrams are a popular variation on flowcharts because they correct one significant failing of flowcharts: very few flowcharts show who is responsible for each of the steps or who makes the key decisions.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Selecting a Flowchart Type & Creating Flowcharts

One interesting note if you have created flowcharts with previous versions of Visio: the Visio 2010 Basic Flowchart template defaults to horizontal orientation, whereas previous versions presented a vertical view by default

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Choosing Automated Deployment Options (part 3) - An Overview of the System Preparation Tool and Disk Imaging

The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep.exe) is used to prepare a computer for disk imaging, and the disk image can then be captured using ImageX—a new imaging management tool included with Windows 7—or third-party imaging software.

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Choosing Automated Deployment Options (part 2)

Unattended installation is a practical method of automatic deployment when you have a large number of clients to install and the computers require different hardware and software configurations

Automating the Windows 7 Installation : Choosing Automated Deployment Options (part 1) - An Overview of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

Microsoft had released a new beta program called the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010. It is used to automate desktop and server deployment.

Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2010 : Coding Attributes - Reflecting Attributes

Attributes are about application’s metadata. Because of this, you can use Reflection for checking if a type recurs to custom attributes and investigate metadata.

Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2010 : Coding Attributes - Coding Custom Attributes

According to the particular nature of your custom attributes, you can decide whether multiple instances can be applied to programming elements.

Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2010 : Coding Attributes - Applying Attributes

When you apply an attribute, your object is decorated with that attribute. Another common description utilized when applying attributes is that an object is marked.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Working with Background Pages and Borders

You can create background pages manually and assign them to selected foreground pages. You can also take advantage of several Visio features that automatically create and assign background pages. In this exercise, you will do both.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Managing Pages and Page Setup

A Visio drawing can contain any number of pages and each page can have its own dimensions, measurement units, and other characteristics.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Understanding Layers

You can organize objects in a Visio drawing into layers and control various properties of all layer members at once. For example, you can control whether layer members will print, be visible on the drawing page, or be selectable

Installing Windows 7 (part 4) - Using Windows Update & Installing Windows Service Packs

Installed Updates allows you to see the updates that are installed and to uninstall or change them if necessary. The Installed Updates feature is a part of the Programs And Features applet in the Control Panel, which allows you to uninstall, change, and repair programs.

Installing Windows 7 (part 3) - Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 & Supporting Multiple-Boot Options

Since the upgrade option from Windows XP to Windows 7 is not available, you can use Windows Easy Transfer to integrate settings from Windows XP to Windows 7 on the same computer.

Installing Windows 7 (part 2) - Performing an Upgrade to Windows 7, Troubleshooting Installation Problems & Migrating Files and Settings

Rather than perform an in-place upgrade, you can choose to migrate your files and settings from an existing installation. In this case, you can use the User State Migration Tool (USMT) or the Windows Easy Transfer utility.

Installing Windows 7 (part 1) - Performing a Clean Install of Windows 7

If you are installing Windows 7 from the network, you need a distribution server and a computer with a network connection. A distribution server is a server that has the Windows 7 distribution files copied to a shared folder

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Grouping Shapes

By default, shapes dropped on a group are not added to the group. However, if you run Visio in developer mode, you can change the behavior of a group so it will accept dropped shapes.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Inserting Fields & Inserting Pictures

As is true for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and many other programs, Visio lets you import pictures of various types into a drawing.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Using Shape Data

A significant part of what gives Visio diagrams uniqueness and value is the data that resides inside Visio shapes. Called shape data in Visio 2010 and Visio 2007, data fields were known as custom properties in previous versions of Visio.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Creating and Modifying Charts - Pulling Out a Pie Slice & Formatting Chart Data Series

If you want to further enhance a chart, you can insert a picture in a chart so that its image occupies a bar or column. You can use the Format Selection button to open the Format dialog box and change Fill options to format a chart data series with a solid, gradient, picture, or texture fill.

Microsoft Excel 2010 : Creating and Modifying Charts - Changing Chart Labels

A legend is a set of text labels that helps the reader connect the colors and patterns in a chart with the data they represent. Legend text is derived from the data series plotted within a chart

Visual Basic 2010 : Understanding the .NET Thread Pool & Threads Synchronization

The .NET Framework still provides the ReaderWriterLock class, as in its previous versions, but it is complex and used to handle particular multithreading scenarios.

Visual Basic 2010 : Processes and Multithreading

A thread is a unit of work. The logic of threading-based programming is performing multiple operations concurrently so that a big operation can be split across multiple threads.

Visual Basic 2010 : Implementing Query Interceptors

Basically interceptors are .NET methods exposed by the service class enabling developers to intercept Http requests and to establish how such requests must be handled, both in reading and in writing operations.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Adding ScreenTips and Comments

Comments are part of the review feature set in Visio. Consequently, you will find comment buttons on the Review tab and not on the Insert tab where you found ScreenTips.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Positioning Shape Text

The text on a Visio shape is located in a text block. You can reposition the text within a text block with several buttons located on the Visio ribbon.

Monitoring and Maintaining Windows 7 : Using Event Viewer

The Security log is used to log security events, such as successful or failed logon events. The Setup log is used only by domain controllers, so it doesn't have much practical use in Windows 7

Monitoring and Maintaining Windows 7 : Setting Up Task Scheduler

Task Scheduler is a utility in Windows 7 that allows you to schedule actions to occur at specified intervals. Windows 7 Task Scheduler can be accessed by typing Task Scheduler into the Windows 7 search box.

Visual Basic 2010 : Implementing and Consuming WCF Data Services - Implementing Service Operations

Service operations are .NET methods that can perform data operations on the server side. With service operations developers can preventively establish access rules and customize the business logic, such as data validation or access restrictions.

Visual Basic 2010 : Consuming WCF Data Services

Basically you need to add a service reference from the client and then instantiate the proxy class. Such a class will be generated for you by Visual Studio 2010 and will expose members for accessing data on the server

Visual Basic 2010 : Implementing WCF Data Services

If you run Internet Explorer, you can select Tools, Internet Options, Content and then click the Settings button, finally you unflag the Turn On Feed Reading View check box. You will need to restart Internet Explorer for the change to take effect.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Orienting Shape Text

For the technically inclined, if you look in the TxtAngle cell in the Text Transform section of the ShapeSheet for the lower arrow, you will actually see a function named GRAVITY().

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Sophistication to Your Drawings - Orienting Shapes on the Page

When you drop shapes onto the Visio drawing page, they are usually oriented the way you want them to be. However, there are times when you want the shapes to appear at a different angle. Visio provides several ways to accomplish this.

Microsoft Visio 2010 : Adding Text to Shapes & Creating and Formatting Text Boxes

For most Visio shapes, the three methods of entering text edit mode—single-click and start typing; double-click; and select the shape and press F2—are interchangeable

Monitoring and Maintaining Windows 7 : Using System Configuration

You can use the System Configuration utility to help you view and troubleshoot how Windows 7 starts and what programs and services launch at startup. You might recognize this utility as msconfig.exe.

Using Windows 7 Tools to Discover System Information

The Task Manager utility shows the applications and processes that are currently running on your computer, as well as CPU and memory usage information. To access Task Manager, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click Start Task Manager

Optimizing Windows 7 with Performance Monitor (part 3)

Alerts can be generated when a specific counter rises above or falls below a specified value. You can configure alerts to log an entry in the application event log and/or start a data collector set. Creating an alert is similar to creating a performance counter data log except you are required to specify the alert conditions.