Hi, this is Mike Richter, website manager and developer for MSDN Magazine . I knew right away that MIX was going to be amazing when I got stuck behind Flavor Flav while trying to get off the plane in the Las Vegas airport. Having never been to Vegas...

By now you've probably heard the news that Microsoft has released Beta 1 of the next version of Visual Studio, code name "Orcas". We'll be providing detailed information on what's new and important for you to know about in Orcas in upcoming issues of...

For the July 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine , Sergey Mishkovskiy wrote a cool article on integrating Windows Desktop Search into Visual Studio through a custom add-in. However, it was based on WDS 2.x, and since then Microsoft has released WDS 3.x (what...

Starting with the May 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , I decided to try something new - the interactive editor's note. This month, the ednote discusses Daylight Savings Time and whether it ended up having any major Y2K-like effects on developers. Did you...

The May 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05 . This issue has a slew of great articles, including ones on JavaScript , XNA , WPF , JLCA , BizTalk , Groove , concurrency , SharePoint , ASP...

In the May 2007 issue, sections of the CLR Inside Out column were inadvertently missing due to a printing error (the last page of the column was printed twice, replacing one of the pages in the middle of the column). As a service to our readers, we are...

I have an awesome and fairly unique job at Microsoft. I get to decide what content ends up in the pages of MSDN Magazine. I get to ship a best-in-its-class product, and I get to do it every month. I get to write in-depth technical articles and code samples...