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Geopegging in MSDN Magazine
In the April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, I described a project I'm working on - it's a client that...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/19/2007
Day one at SD Expo
I am sitting in a session at SD West right now, as Juval Lowy discusses WCF for a full house. The...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/19/2007
Blogging from Santa Clara
Josh T here. I arrived late last night to SFO for the SD West conference. I'm on the advisory board,...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/18/2007
Article pagination... good or bad?
For the MSDN Magazine Web site, one concept we frequently revisit when thinking about how to improve...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/15/2007
April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The April 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/13/2007
So You Want to Learn to Program
Maybe you’ve been dabbling in HTML and JavaScript and now you’re thinking about taking programming a...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/02/2007
Getting Images Out
Our art & production team for MSDN Magazine has a request for authors that when submitting...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/01/2007
Article Proposals
Over on the TechNet Magazine blog, Josh wrote a good post about what we look for in proposals for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/01/2007
Striving for perfection
I think that one of the beauties of striving for perfection is that, in doing so, you implicitly...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/28/2007
Code Exploration Feature
We've heard a lot of feedback that code samples are one of the most important things we can provide...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/27/2007
Using Concurrency for Scalability
There's been a lot of buzz lately about concurrency. The reason for this is due mostly to major...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/23/2007
Write to MSDN Magazine! But include a subject line.
MSDN Magazine welcomes your email, either to our editorial staff or to one of our many fine...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/15/2007
March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. It contains a plethora of great...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/14/2007
Self help
At MSDN Magazine, one of our primary goals is to ensure that we're delivering content that makes our...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 02/03/2007
More preview handlers
Since we published our article on writing managed preview handlers for Windows Vista and Outlook...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/31/2007
New topics pages!
Since MSDN Magazine had its first issue in March 2000 (prior to then it was MSJ and MIND), we've...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/30/2007
Linking to magazine content
Want to take MSDN Magazine articles from our Web site with you on the go? Want to email articles to...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/29/2007
Turning Off ClearType Font Smoothing
As a follow-up to Amy’s post on font smoothing, here’s a quick explanation of how you can turn off...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/26/2007
It's an honor just to be nominated...
Of course, it's an even greater honor to win. ;) MSDN Magazine has been honored with three awards...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/25/2007
Have the Last Word
Some people like to flip to the last page of their magazines first. The New Yorker has those cool...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/24/2007
Sorting through the site
The MSDN Magazine Web site is one of my favorite places on the web. That’s because I like to sort...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/23/2007
Behind the Page
I’m the last person you’d expect to be writing a blog entry for MSDN Magazine. I can’t write code,...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/23/2007
Download the Managed SideShow APIs
In the January 2007 issue, Jeffrey Richter discussed implementing gadgets for SideShow devices in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/19/2007
MSDN Magazine podcasts
Sure you've read MSDN Magazine every month since the beginning of time. But did you know that you...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/18/2007
Writing add-ins for managed apps
The CLR team is introducing a cool new framework in Orcas that makes it easier than ever before for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/12/2007
Great screencast on writing preview handlers for Windows Vista and Outlook 2007
Daniel Moth has created a really cool screencast using our article from the January 2007 issue of...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/11/2007
February 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine now online
The February 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! Due to the recent holidays, the...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/11/2007
Windows SideShow devices
In the January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, Jeffrey Richter demonstrates how to write gadgets for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/08/2007
Vista and Office: View Data Your Way With Our Managed Preview Handler Framework
The new Windows Vista preview pane lets you preview files right within the shell, and Outlook 2007...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 01/04/2007
Japanese version of January 2007 issue now online
You asked for it; you got it! The January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/27/2006
Happy holidays!
Happy holidays from all of us at MSDN Magazine. -Stephen
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/25/2006
Linking to the current issue in your language
We've received several requests recently to make it easy for folks with blogs or other Web sites to...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/14/2006
Where there were 7, now there are 10
Starting with the November 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine, the magazine content went online...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/14/2006
MSDN Magazine January 2007 now available online
The January 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. This issue is chock full of great...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/13/2006
Running ASMX Web Services on STA Threads
ASMX Web services in ASP.NET run on MTA threads from the thread pool. That's great, unless your Web...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 12/04/2006
Build Custom Activities To Extend The Reach Of Your Workflows
Windows Workflow Foundation is a very cool and useful addition to the .NET Framework. Interested in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/29/2006
Inside Diagnostic Tools for .NET
In his December 2006 MSDN Magazine article, Jonathan Keljo from the CLR team at Microsoft takes a...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/20/2006
MSDN Magazine December 2006 now available online
The December 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online! Check it out. For mobility,...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 11/16/2006
Harness The Power Of P2P Communication In Windows Vista And WCF
For those of you who haven't heard, Windows Vista released to manufacturing (RTM'd) last week! And...
Author: Stephen Toub - MSFT Date: 11/13/2006
What You Need To Know About Using Office As A Development Platform
The Microsoft Office 2007 system RTM'd yesterday! Very exciting for end users and developers alike....
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/07/2006
Are you at DevConnections? We are!
Are you at DevConnections in Las Vegas this week? We are. MSDN Magazine editors Joshua Trupin and...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/06/2006
Understand the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps
In the October 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine, Vance Morrison (now the performance architect on the CLR...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/06/2006
Software Testing Paradoxes
Sometimes we all need a break from hardcore development articles. In his December 2005 Test Run...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/03/2006
Volatile Resource Managers in .NET Bring Transactions to the Common Type
Wouldn't it be cool if you could use transactions to roll back changes you've made to standard data...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 11/02/2006
Let The CLR Find Bugs For You With Managed Debugging Assistants
Thottam Sriram, a PM on the CLR team at Microsoft, wrote a blog post a couple of weeks back about...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 10/31/2006
Base Class Library Performance Tips and Tricks
The Common Language Runtime team at Microsoft is full of very smart people. We are lucky enough in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 10/30/2006