Windows Phone 7 development continues at a fast pace. Last week saw the release of the Developer Tools beta , and yesterday came the announcement of the first technical preview . As Terry Myerson blogged, the technical preview means that Microsoft has...

Brandon Watson has announced the release of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools beta . As Watson says, “It’s time to get serious about building the actual apps and games for Windows Phone 7 that consumers will be looking for starting this holiday season...

My colleague Mike Desmond, the inimitable editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine , has an interesting blog post up about the evolution of .NET , and how it wasn’t always such a slam-dunk to succeed. I’d encourage you to take a look and comment – what...

I blogged yesterday about feedback related to my July Editor’s Note column. I said more was coming, and here it is. “Until the last 10 years, most colleges had no idea what they were doing when it came to educating those bound for computer job. ...

My “Editor’s Note” column for MSDN July is getting strong reader feedback, and I wanted to share some of it with you. In general, the run of opinion is that U.S. colleges and universities aren’t getting the job done in terms of preparing the next generation...

Hi, I’m working on a story, and I’d like your help. It’s about the biggest mistakes made by developers who work on mobile platforms. The mistakes need to be specific to mobile platform development. What were your biggest screw-ups? What have you learned...

The third technical preview of Internet Explorer 9 is available now. According to Neowin , the big news in this one is support for the HTML 5 video tag. For my money, this makes the preview a must-download for developers. I’m also interested in the speed...

A reader took issue to my latest Editor’s Note . That doesn’t bother me at all; I love a good give-and-take, and he has some good points to make: “I understand in your position you have to pitch so-called "innovative" technologies like Silverlight...

Edd Morgan shows IronRuby interaction with POCOs and considerations to make this implementation run “on Rails.” Richard Campbell tells what .NET 4.0 does better than its previous versions regarding performance, thread management, and security, Glenn Block...

Model-View-Controller for the Masses Joe Stagner starts a new "ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of Us" video series with 3 videos showing how to write an MVC application. Enterprise Patterns with WCF RIA Services WCF RIA Services were introduced to...

Dojo father talks on how HTML 5 and JavaScript will take mobile web application development to the next level. Dino Esposito shows how ASP.NET made encoding HTML easier due to a new syntax and a new subsystem. Matthew Podwysocki delivers a new chapter...

Hi Gang, An interesting thread got going in my email the other day, and I thought it might be of help to some of you. It started as a query to “Working Programmer” author Ted Neward. A reader had a question related to his series of articles on MongoDB...

by Bob Golding The introduction of NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) required changes in memory management. Since accessing memory that is not local to the node can result in an access going over an interconnect such as fibre, the memory manager tries...

Take a look to what independent media was covering while Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 were launched. RIA at Work: Silverlight 4 Released Kathleen Richards discusses the fourth version of Silverlight, its features and especially extensibility...

We're looking for articles on Microsoft Office development using .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. If you're working on things like simplified interoperability mechanisms, such as late binding, optional and named parameters, and so on; Silverlight Web...

Here we offer our review on .NET development topics published on independent media.   Microsoft Has Released OData SDK and “Dallas” CTP 2 Abel Avram covers the release of Odata SDK, an AtomPub-based protocol facilitating data sharing over the web...

Hello all, We're going to be adding something special to both the print and online versions of MSDN Magazine , starting in a few months. And we want you -- need you, in fact -- to be a part of it. We're going to start running product reviews written by...

What did media have to say about .NET and development in general while most of attention was caught on MIX 2010?   How to Build Mobile Websites with ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 Jess Chadwick teaches variety of approaches for customizing...

Here we highlight some topics that media was covering about general development (and .NET in particular) this week now ending. XNA Game Studio 4.0 to Windows Phone 7 arsenal Mary-Jo Foley tells about MS next gaming development platform, unveiled at Game...

The following is a selection of five news about .NET development published on independent media. Problematic pair programming Larry O’Brien explores reasons why pair programming is the least adopted of the Extreme Programming practices and ways to deal...

Ever wanted to publish an article in MSDN Magazine ? If so, here's what you need to know. First, send us your idea: our submissions email is mmsubmit@microsoft.com . Make the Subject Line of the email " MSDN Article Query ". As part of that email, we...

Dear readers, while we could yet make some few tweaks to the agenda, these below is for now the most possible content plan for next year.   Month Theme January Cloud Computing February Distributed Computing, SOA March Modeling and Tools, Application...

Continuing with this series on my plans for MSDN Magazine, I’ll address here another question that I’m getting often these days. While a few posts ago I talked about the mindsets on which my content strategy is to be based , it’s now time to talk a bit...

I’m in the job of establishing partnerships with different stakeholders (authors, readers, vendors, colleagues, etc.) in order to consolidate the vision depicted in my last post about the editorial line I’d like to promote thru this magazine . In order...

For some while now, my colleagues were asking me about my plans for the magazine. In other words, my editorial line, editorial style. This post is all about it. While I’ll plan to keep magazine’s main structure composed by regular columns and featured...