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August 2017 Issue: No Summer Doldrums at MSDN Magazine
The dog days of summer tend to be the slowest of the year, at least from a productivity standpoint....
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 08/18/2017
Visual Studio for Mac: Q&A with Mikayla Hutchinson
The Connect(); conference in New York this week has seen a parade of open source and cross-platform...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 11/30/2016
14 Top Features of Visual Basic 14: The Q&A
Leading off the feature in the January issue of MSDN Magazine is Lucian Wischik’s fantastic...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 01/07/2015
Big Start to the New Year at MSDN Magazine
Folks, things are hopping over here at MSDN Magazine. We are kicking off the new year with a...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 01/02/2015
Charles Petzold Departing
As I describe in this month’s Editor’s Note column, the October issue of MSDN Magazine is...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/01/2014
MSDN Magazine July Issue Preview: All About Azure Web Sites
The July issue of MSDN Magazine is themed around the updated features and functionality of...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 06/30/2014
VB6: David Platt’s Inside Pitch
David Platt has been writing the back page Don’t Get Me Started column at MSDN Magazine for going on...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 06/05/2014
Check Out the May Issue of MSDN Magazine
Be sure to check out the May issue of MSDN Magazine, which spotlights some of the powerful new...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 05/02/2014
Building Netduino-based HID Sensors for WinRT
In the March issue of MSDN Magazine, Microsoft’s Donn Morse wrote a feature titled “Building a...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 05/01/2014
Previewing the April issue of MSDN Magazine
The April issue of MSDN Magazine is just around the corner and will lead off with Bill Kratochvil’s...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/31/2014
Calvin and Hobbes: Lessons from the Funny Pages
This month’s Editor’s Note (Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Calvin and Hobbes) highlights...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/21/2014
Don’t Get Me Prognosticating
When David Platt wrote his November 2013 “Don’t Get Me Started” column (Advice to the New CEO),...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/18/2014
Charles Petzold: The Hidden Depths of DirectX
Charles Petzold is a man who requires no introduction among MSDN Magazine readers (but if you need...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/13/2014
Windows Azure Insiders and the Internet of Things
In the current, March issue of MSDN Magazine, you can read Bruno Terkaly and Ricardo Villalobos’...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/11/2014
November Issue of MSDN Magazine
As I wrote earlier, the Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine, currently live on our Web site,...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 11/05/2013
Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine
Visit the MSDN Magazine Web site and you’ll see we’ve been a bit busier than usual of late. In...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 11/01/2013
MSDN Magazine May Issue Preview
Tomorrow afternoon the May issue of MSDN Magazine will go live on our Web site. Here’s what you can...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/30/2013
Check Out the April Issue of MSDN Magazine
The April issue of MSDN Magazine is live. This month’s issue leads off with Thomas Petchel’s...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/04/2013
Tweet First and Ask Questions Later
Like a motorist driving by an ugly car wreck, I couldn’t help but follow the unfortunate...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/22/2013
Q&A with Fabric.js Creator Juriy Zaytsev
Script Junkie just published the last in a four-part series on the Fabric.js JavaScript library for...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/15/2013
MSDN Magazine: Mid-month Web Preview
Around the 15th of each month, MSDN Magazine publishes to its Web site additional features and...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/14/2013
Previewing the March Issue of MSDN Magazine
It’s been busy around here ever since we published the Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 02/25/2013
Getting Busy at Script Junkie
Back in March of 2012, MSDN Magazine welcomed under its wing the Script Junkie Web development site....
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 02/12/2013
Introducing the Patterns in Practice Column
This week we launched a new Web column at MSDN Magazine, called Patterns in Practice. Written by...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 01/17/2013
Charles Petzold on his DirectX Factor Column
Charles Petzold this month launches his new DirectX Factor column, which will explore the...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 01/08/2013
Hurricane Sandy: Katrina’s Loud Echo
Six and a half years ago I traveled down to post-Katrina New Orleans to write a feature story for...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/30/2012
MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview
October was our busiest month. Between our regular October issue and the super-sized Windows 8...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/26/2012
Follow Up: Jeremy Likness on Windows Runtime Components in a .NET World
Jeremy Likness wrote this month’s feature titled Windows Runtime Components in a .NET World. A...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/25/2012
Follow Up: Andrew Whitechapel on Developing for Windows Phone and iOS
In the October issue of MSDN Magazine Andrew Whitechapel undertook a really interesting...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/19/2012
Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine
Welcome to the Windows 8 special edition of MSDN Magazine. Over the past several months a talented...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 10/10/2012
I’m Still Standing: My Standing Desk Experiment Continues
A few months back I wrote about my transition to a standing desk. Fed up with sundry aches and...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 09/24/2012
Standing Desk Experiment
Like a lot of developers, my job has me spending a LOT of time sitting in front of a computer...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 06/05/2012
Developer Guide: Working with Windows Phone and the Cloud
The good folks over at Microsoft Patterns & Practices are up to their old tricks again, this...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 06/01/2012
Windows 8 Release Preview Announced
Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. The pre-release code is...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 05/31/2012
MSDN Magazine June Issue Preview
Tomorrow the next issue of MSDN Magazine officially hits the street. Leading off things are a pair...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 05/31/2012
Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect: Part 2 of our Q&A with Leland Holmquest
Earlier this month I posted part of an interview with Leland Holmquest, who wrote our fascinating...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/30/2012
Script Junkie: Leveraging the jQuery UI Widget Factory with Project Silk
Things continue to hop over at Script Junkie. New to the site is Leveraging the jQuery UI Widget...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/13/2012
Get Accelerated with C++ AMP
This month's issue of MSDN Magazine includes a pair of feature articles on the new Accelerated...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/04/2012
Script Junkie: Fluid Grids for Flexible Web Sites
MSDN Magazine recently welcomed to its Web site the popular Script Junkie tutorial site, which...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 04/02/2012
MSDN Magazine April Issue Preview
My nine-year-old daughter Maggie has a favorite joke. "April showers bring May flowers,"...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/26/2012
MSDN Magazine Welcomes Script Junkie
MSDN Magazine today is adding to its Web site the popular Script Junkie tutorial site, which has...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/20/2012
Author Q&A: Building the Internet of Things
In this month's issue of MSDN Magazine, Colin Miller and Torsten Grabs authored the lead feature...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/09/2012
MSDN Magazine Web Site Gets an Update
The March issue of MSDN Magazine went live on the first of the month, and brought along with it a...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 03/08/2012
MSDN Magazine March Issue Preview
Gotta love leap year. Every four years (more or less, since there are rules to this thing, you know)...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 02/27/2012
A Decade of SDL
A decade ago last month, Bill Gates wrote the now-famous Trustworthy Computing email that challenged...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 02/16/2012
Visual Basic 6: Old Soldiers Never Die…
General Douglas MacArthur famously said during his 1951 farewell address to the U.S. Congress that...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 02/13/2012
MSDN Magazine February Issue Preview
In a few days the February issue of MSDN Magazine should be hitting mailboxes and Web browsers...
Author: Michael Desmond - MSDN Magazine Date: 01/27/2012