Update: Some additional improvements are coming in this area. Please see this article . There has been a lot of feedback about the new authentication features introduced in the latest version of the Remote Desktop Connection client. These features...

We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9. At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards...

Problem statement: I just bought a system with 4GB of physical RAM in it. The BIOS posts 4GB, but Windows tells me that I have anywhere from 2.75 - 3.5GB of RAM. Where is the rest of my RAM? Summary: If you are running 32-bit Windows, you must live with...

Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and batteries, specifically the new Windows 7 message “Considering replacing your battery”. Since this is related to the engineering of Windows 7 we’re going to use...

Ok, for the past two weeks I've come back to my computer only to notice that HelpSvc.exe is taking up 100% of one CPU and System is taking up about 60% of another. I'm not the only one who had this happen to him. Kevin has the same problem but he got...

Part III – Connection Fail when SqlClient connects to Sql Server 2005 When you connect to SQL Server 2005 either using "SQL Server Managment Studio" or any application compiled with .NET Framework 2.0, you are using SqlClient provider(Access data from...

Hi. My name is Jane Maliouta and I am the Deployment PM for IE8. You might remember my recent blog on Installing IE8 . Today I am here to tell you about Windows XP SP3 (XPSP3) and how it’ll work with the various released versions of Internet Explorer...

We are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and I wanted to give an update on the CSS work that went into IE7. Chris originally outlined our plans for IE7, and we listened to a lot of feedback ( blog , connect database , conferences , our WASP partnership...

How to get Windows Explorer to work with RunAs (and why you might want to)....

This is Part 1 of an introductory series on game programming using the Microsoft .NET Framework and managed DirectX 9.0. WARNING: Managed DirectX is no longer supported. If you want to do 3D graphics with the .NET Framework, please use XNA ( http:...

Gang, we’re done! 24 chapters, about 1,000 pages. Congratulations to Charles, who has outdone himself! Speaking for Charles and for the Windows Phone 7 team, we hope that you will enjoy Programming Windows Phone 7 : You can download a PDF...

As you may have heard , I've recently taken over content strategy duties for the C# dev center from Duncan Mackenzie, who has transitioned to a dev position within MSDN - best of luck D! As you also may have heard , I'll be attending the Win-Dev conference...