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Integrate Windows Live and SharePoint search into your site
With so many search providers to choose from, it's important that your site uses an abstracted...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/18/2007
Unit Testing: Replacing Component Servers with Test Doubles
Effectively replacing component servers for testing purposes is a common — but often misunderstood —...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/16/2007
Office Development on MSDN
Earlier this month I posted to let you know about an article in our August issue on open packaging...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/14/2007
ScriptManager and ASP.NET AJAX
ScriptManager is a server-side control that sits on your Web Form and enables the core of ASP.NET...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/13/2007
September 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The September 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/10/2007
Foundations: Declarative WCF Security
In the August issue of MSDN Magazine, Juval Lowy presents a declarative security framework for...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/10/2007
OPC: A New Standard for Packaging Your Data
The 2007 Microsoft Office System Open XML specification, recently approved by the ECMA International...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/08/2007
Flexible Content Display With WPF Flow Documents
Flow Documents and XML Paper Specification (XPS) Documents are related technologies in Windows...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/06/2007
Office Space: Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007
In his May 2007 MSDN Magazine column, Ted Pattison explained how to create, test, and debug Windows...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 08/02/2007
More LINQ coverage: a custom query provider
In the August installment of the Basic Instincts column in MSDN Magazine, Scott Wisniewski provides...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/31/2007
DigiGirlz camp
This is a bit longer than your average blog post, so bear with me.... Last week, I participated in...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/30/2007
A custom Windows Vista sidebar gadget
There are several different types of gadgets currently supported by Microsoft developer...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/27/2007
August 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The August 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/12/2007
My Farewell
MSDN Magazine rocks! I truly believe it to be one of the best resources out there for developers...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/09/2007
Write Code Once For Both Mobile And Desktop Apps
Up until a few weeks ago, I'd had the same mobile non-smartphone phone for over three years, never...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/05/2007
Years of C++
Paul DiLascia is one of our most celebrated columnists in MSDN Magazine. After 165 columns for MSDN...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 07/02/2007
LINQ in MSDN Magazine
LINQ is definitely one of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. In...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/28/2007
Coding with Color
Historically, all of the code samples printed in MSDN Magazine and its predecessors have been...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/22/2007
Editor's Note, July 2007: What is Mobility?
In this month's ednote, we asked for you to let us know how you were using mobile computing. Well?...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/18/2007
July 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The July 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/13/2007
Today's talk on writing for MSDN Magazine
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk today on writing for MSDN Magazine. I hope you all enjoyed it...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/06/2007
Q&As from today's talk
Josh and I received some good questions today in our TechEd 2007 talk on writing for MSDN Magazine...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/05/2007
Slides for TechEd 2007 Presentation
Josh and I just finished giving our first TechEd 2007 talk on writing for MSDN Magazine and TechNet...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/05/2007
TechEd 2007, Here We Come
Several members of the MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine staff will be at TechEd this week. If...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/02/2007
Code Explorer enabled for 2003 code samples
I mentioned a few weeks ago that we enabled our "Code Explorer" feature on all of the code samples...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 06/01/2007
Does size matter?
An eternal question, and one as relevant to a magazine as to anything else. The processes behind...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/30/2007
June 2007 TechNet Magazine online with some great articles for developers
As I'm sure many of you are aware, our team at Microsoft puts out both MSDN Magazine and TechNet...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/23/2007
Extracting images from .doc files
I posted previously about needing the ability to extract images from articles submitted by our...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/21/2007
Checklist for article submissions
Over on the TechNet Magazine blog, Terry, one of our great developmental editors, has posted a short...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/19/2007
Code Explorer enabled for 2004 code samples
Several months ago, we launched the Code Explorer feature on the MSDN Magazine Web site, which...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/16/2007
Extracting images using the .NET Packaging APIs
I posted yesterday about a simple tool you can write to extract images from .docx files. That code...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/16/2007
Extracting images from .docx files
I mentioned previously how we frequently need to extract images from articles submitted to MSDN...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/15/2007
An Issue in Review
I often receive questions, especially from new authors to the magazine, about what it takes to put...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/14/2007
Editor's Note, June 2007: Visual Studio at 10
For those of you old enough to remember, Visual Studio was introduced a decade ago. The June ednote...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/11/2007
June 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The June 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/09/2007
An Inside Look at Magazine Printing
Ever wonder what it takes to print the magazines you read every day? Valerie Myers, the art and...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/02/2007
More preview handlers
Martijn Hoogendoorn, a development consultant with Microsoft in the Netherlands, wrote to me this...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/02/2007
MIX Day 1
I won $50 tonight after an hour and a half at the blackjack table! I was really impressed with my...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 05/01/2007
MIX Day 0.5
Hi, this is Mike Richter, website manager and developer for MSDN Magazine. I knew right away that...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/30/2007
Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1
By now you've probably heard the news that Microsoft has released Beta 1 of the next version of...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/27/2007
Code & Seek
For the July 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine, Sergey Mishkovskiy wrote a cool article on integrating...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/27/2007
May 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The May 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/11/2007
Printing error in the May 2007 issue
In the May 2007 issue, sections of the CLR Inside Out column were inadvertently missing due to a...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/04/2007
Want my job?
I have an awesome and fairly unique job at Microsoft. I get to decide what content ends up in the...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 04/04/2007
TechEd 2007 Talks
Joshua Hoffman, my counterpart over at TechNet Magazine, posted today about some of our TechEd 2007...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/30/2007
Long path support in .NET
The BCL team has been blogging recently about long file path support in the .NET Framework (or lack...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/26/2007
Developing for Windows Vista
For those of you unable to make it to DevConnections in Florida this week, there is some terrific...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/26/2007
See you at DevConnections
Are you going to DevConnections this week in Orlando? If so, see you there. I'll be presenting...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/25/2007
Day 3 at SD West: Web 2.0 Interface Design
I'm taking in a morning session, "Effective Web 2.0 Interface Design Patterns," being presented by...
Author: MSDNMagazine Date: 03/21/2007