LINQ is definitely one of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. In our June 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine , we ran a couple of feature articles introducing LINQ from the C# and the Visual Basic perspectives. If you're new...

Historically, all of the code samples printed in MSDN Magazine and its predecessors have been monochromatic: black on green, black on white, black on grey, or something similar. Every year we reconsider this, tossing around the idea of printing all of...

In this month's ednote, we asked for you to let us know how you were using mobile computing. Well? Let's hear it! Don't be shy! What do you think of when you hear the word "mobility?" It differs by generation. One person might think of a motorized...

The July 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/07 . As with last month, this is a great issue with a bunch of useful articles, including ones on power-awareness , sharing code , Transactional...

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk today on writing for MSDN Magazine. I hope you all enjoyed it and will consider submitting proposals in the near future. In the meantime, since my slides from today are almost identical to the slides Josh Hoffman...

Josh and I received some good questions today in our TechEd 2007 talk on writing for MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine . Here are the answers to a few of the questions that were asked. We'll post again with more questions (and answers) from the week...

Josh and I just finished giving our first TechEd 2007 talk on writing for MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine . If you're interested in those slides, we're posting them as an attachment to this blog entry. Enjoy! -Stephen

Several members of the MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine staff will be at TechEd this week. If you'll be there, swing by the MSDN or MSDN Magazine booths to say hi. In addition, Josh Hoffman and I will be presenting several lunch sessions on writing...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that we enabled our " Code Explorer " feature on all of the code samples for articles in 2004 (several hundred code projects). Today, we enabled it on all of the code samples for articles in 2003 (plus several issues from the...