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karin meier's observations about life on the windows sdk team
It's not a bug; it's a feature!
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/22/2007
Windows Live ID SDK
The new SDK for the Windows Live ID service lets you build a platform-neutral interface to enable...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2007
Workaround: VCBuild fails to compile or upgrade projects in SDK
There is a known issue with the pre-release Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/17/2007
Burning Life, a Virtual Burning Man
I’ve always wanted to go to Burning Man, the annual countercultural arts festival, but with both...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/17/2007
Windows SDK components in VC++ Express for VS2008
VS2008 Beta 2 is available for download. Beta 2 previews major improvements in VC++ Express for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
Visual C++ Today and Tomorrow: Channel 9 Interview
How will VC++ evolve? How has the advent of managed code affected the evolutionary trajectory of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
Visual C++ How Do I... Videos
A number of “How Do I” videos for native development are now available on MSDN. These videos are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/15/2007
Beginning Developer Learning Center
The VS Express Editions Beginner Developer Learning Center is a great place to point your kids and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/11/2007
Why is everyone talking about Photosynth?
There’s a reason everyone’s sending you links to Photosynth. It presents the most astounding...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/11/2007
Friends asking for tech support?
Friends and family that know I work at Microsoft they often ask for computer advice. There’s a handy...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2007
Supported platforms: Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 provides prerelease components...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2007
Windows Live SkyDrive
Windows Live Folders has been re-branded Windows Live SkyDrive. Cool name, cool service. You get...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/10/2007
Mashable’s Ultimate RSS Toolbox
I’m shopping for a new RSS reader and really appreciate Mashable’s review of all the RSS readers,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
Windows SDK vs PSDK: what’s the difference?
The Windows SDK has replaced the PSDK. The PSDK is no more. Here are the details. What’s the Windows...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking with the Windows SDK
Have you seen the Windows SDK samples that demonstrate the use of the P2P Native APIs? The samples...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2007
My PUM Lori Pearce talks about the Windows SDK on Channel 9
Lori Pearce, my own Product Unit Manager, was just interviewed on Channel 9 in a video I find both...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Quick, quality Silverlight tutorials on Nibbles
Nibbles (beta), snack tutorials for hungry designers has some great Silverlight samples and clear,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Oops: China’s new nuclear sub caught on Google Earth
A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic Jin-class (Type...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Windows Server 2008 Step-by-step Guides
The Windows Server 2008 documentation team is really cranking! If you’re wondering what Server 2008...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Xbox 360 just got cheaper
The announcement came today that Microsoft will reduce the estimated retail price of Xbox 360 by $50...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007
Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device
Cool or couch potato? Matt Ivers has a step-by-step article on Coding4Fun titled Control Windows...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/03/2007
Cisco Systems: the Meltdown
What's so satisfying about Cisco's viral marketing ad, watched 75,000 times on YouTube since posted...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2007
Getting Started with the Windows SDK
You’ve just downloaded your first Windows SDK and can’t wait to get started exploring the tools,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2007
Shipped: Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
A new prerelease version of the Windows SDK has shipped. This SDK coincides with the release of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2007
Orcas Beta 2: It’s out, what’s in?
Big news around Developer Division today: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/27/2007
Tools I Like: Free Malware Removal Starter Kit
The Malware Removal Starter Kit, a Solution Accelerator from Microsoft, provides tested guidance to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/27/2007
Cool Toy: run triple monitors off your notebook
Do you need triple monitors running off your notebook computer with a resolution of up to 3840x1024...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/27/2007
Do you have feelings for the Windows SDK?
Love it? Hate it? Keep waiting for that ONE feature in the Windows SDK? We really, really want to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/26/2007
Nokia buys Redmond Social Media Site Twango
Twango, a small social media site based in Redmond, founded by ex-Microsofties, has been bought by...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/24/2007
Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit (Beta 3)
If you’re developing apps that target Windows Server 2008 technologies you’ll want to get over to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/24/2007
Learn to Write C# by creating games with DigiPen
DigiPen Institute of Technology has webcast series on creating video games using DirectX 9.0 and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/23/2007
Mobile Search V2 released
The Mobile Search team has released V2 of the rich client application for Windows Mobile, as well as...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2007
From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications
I just discovered Tim Sneath’s great compilation of 50 Silverlight-based widgets, samples, demos and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/22/2007
Visual Studio how-to videos: on a computer, mobile device, or Xbox 360
The site "How Do I?" Videos for Visual Studio Extensibility hosts videos on how to extend the Visual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2007
Apple extending iPhone’s multi-touch to mice?
Will iPhone's touch screen technology show up in a new mouse soon? CraveCNET.com reports that it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2007
FxCop Honored with Chairman's Award for Engineering Excellence
Microsoft’s prestigious Engineering Excellence Chairman's Award was awarded to Mike Fanning,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2007
LiveStation the “Killer App” for Silverlight, says Mashable
Livestation, from Microsoft Research, streams live TV over P2P using Silverlight to play the media...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2007
Help Your (Virtual) Earth
If you love your Virtual Earth like I do you’ll help make it even better by spending a few minutes...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2007
Xbox Cheaper in Japan than in US
Xbox 360 Elite will sell for 47,800 yen ($390) in Japan reports Bloomberg Technology today. It sells...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2007
StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking takes off
None of us has trouble wasting time on the Web, but the social bookmarking service StumbleUpon makes...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/04/2007
$50,000 up for grabs for Developing Windows Home Server Apps
You can win fame and fortune developing a hardware or software add-ins for the new Windows Home...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/04/2007
Summer Camp? It’s iPhone Dev Camp
Now developers can create Web 2.0 applications using the web development guide for the iPhone just...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/04/2007
Cool Toy: Digi-Desk
All the hoopla over touch screens lately got me thinking about a cool research project Jason Sacks...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/04/2007
Uh Oh. iPhone won’t sync with 64-bit Windows
The software that connects and synchronizes iPhone to a PC won't run on 64-bit editions of Vista or...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/03/2007
.NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 CTP released today
If you’re still using the Beta 1 bits from April, it’s time to update. Lots of changes since then!...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2007
Do I need the Windows SDK to create plugins for WMP 11?
If you’re creating plugins for Windows Media Player 11 you may not need to download the Windows SDK....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/02/2007
How to Use Windows Internet Sharing on Your Mobile Phone for a Modem (video)
My team mate Lance Zielinski was a little annoyed to find that AT&T charges an extra $14 per...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2007
MSDN Magazine on the Power of LINQ
A lot has been written about the new set of language features known collectively as Language...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/30/2007
I covet DeepFish
After spending the first 24 hours with my free AT&T 8525 PocketPC I realize the mobile browsing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2007