Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
The official blog of MSDN Magazine
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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’...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 06/01/2012
Windows 8 Release Preview Announced
Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. The pre-release code is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 04/02/2012
MSDN Magazine April Issue Preview
My nine-year-old daughter Maggie has a favorite joke. "April showers bring May flowers,"...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Date: 02/27/2012
A Decade of SDL
A decade ago last month, Bill Gates wrote the now-famous Trustworthy Computing email that challenged...
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...
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...
Date: 01/27/2012