Windows Server 2008 is Live on the Microsoft Download Center as of this morning, February 27, 2008. The following can be downloaded from Microsoft.com: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (English, German, French, Spanish) - English can be found...

For those who don’t have tons of time to play, try out the new MS Learning Silverlight Snack Player . The "snacks" are 15-20 minutes long with demos, animations and explanations of core technology. I just watched a cool little video on installing and...

Charles Oppermann on the Speech team wrote a post on the new Speech-related content that ships in the recently released Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . The content in this new Windows SDK completely replaces the older SAPI...

Jason Kresowaty has posted a great tutorial on writing Code Analysis/FxCop rules . It’s excellent for advanced users who want to write their own custom rules, but doesn’t leave new users out. There’s wonderful introductory information explaining what...

This concise article on the Windows SDK Blog describes what you need to do to build Win32 applications using Visual C++ Express and the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . A more detailed explanation including screenshots can...

Here’s another GEM from WPF wizard Karl Shifflett: an in-depth article (with video, naturally) on the process of creating Silverlight screen capture videos for your Code Project articles and for your blog. You’ll learn tricks for creating, encoding, packaging...

Does it drive you crazy that when debugging the Visual Studio data tip default font size of 8? That was fine a few years ago but it just doesn’t work for me anymore. I can’t see it easily and when on a laptop it’s impossible to get my pointer in the right...

This incredibly evil alarm clock challenges you to prove you’re really awake by feeding you math problems until it’s satisfied that you’ve been harassed enough to avoid drifting back off to sleep. The design is powered by a PIC16 microcontroller, which...

The recently released Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 has 22 MMC 3.0 samples that install to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Samples\SysMgmt\MMC3.0 folder. If you’ve deployed an MMC 3.0 application to a computer...

If you like to read the MSDN Forums like I do, you’ve probably seen quite a few questions about how to migrate Visual Studio 2005 packages to Visual Studio 2008. You may have even run into a few quirks yourself. Most of the time you can just follow a...

The latest Windows SDK is the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . This SDK release supports Windows Server 2008 , .NET Framework 3.5 , and Windows Vista SP1 and is compatible with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 SP1...

There are many tools, components and services to help developers and administrators work more efficiently, or that can add capabilities to applications. Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Transfers files asynchronously between a client...

Did you know that you can search for APIs alphabetically in the Windows SDK Documentation? You can search the online SDK Documents on MSDN . This topic has the unlikely name of “Platform Information” in the SDK documents (don’t ask me why). Although...

Did you know that you can access the Windows SDK documentation on MSDN, without installing the SDK? Yes, you can. Here are some of the topics: Overview of the Windows SDK Windows SDK in the MSDN Library What's New in the...

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 , released February, 2008, and the earlier Windows SDK for Windows Vista Update , released February, 2007. This issue occurs very rarely, but if you’ve experienced...

Thanks to the new Code Gallery you can read development-focused content through the awesome NY Times Reader experience. The MSDN Reader provides offline caching/reading of MSDN Magazine articles, content annotation, and content sharing through an intuitive...

ScummVM is a free program that allows you to run some classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. What’s cool about that? ScummVM replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play...

“Terrorists Evolve. Threats Evolve. Security Must Stay Ahead. You Play A Part .” Oh, please. The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has launched a blog called the Evolution of Security , with a tagline obviously written by Karl Rove or Fox News...

The UI Spy tool did not ship in the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 , released February, 2008. We’re working to get this great tool back into the next SDK release. If you need this tool, you can find it in the earlier Windows...

UPDATE: the official Windows SDK Workaround to this issue has been posted on the Windows SDK Blog . Scenario: VS 2008 and Windows SDK customer Karl has used the XAML functionality in VS2008 for several weeks. He uses autocomplete extensively. Karl...

There’s lots of great new technology around and if you recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 you may have noticed a problem. Even with Visual Studio 2008 installed, you may have found that some of your Visual Studio solution files (.sln) don't open...

Life at Microsoft: the Movie . It’s pretty funny. It’s pretty real. Doesn’t every group have a ton of those Nerf guns?

By now I hope you’ve installed the latest version of the Windows SDK which supports Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1, and several earlier operating systems. The SDK now includes a very cool new tool; the Windows Performance Tool Kit (xperf) from the Windows...

The “WPF Application Quality Guide v 0.1” white paper is live online at the WindowsClient.NET site. It’s a guide that we hope upon completion can be a one-stop shop for guidance and best practices to improve product quality and testability for WPF applications...

Some days it felt like we’d never reach the end, but we got there and the RTM release of the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 is live on the Microsoft Download Center. The Windows SDK contains documentation, samples...