You probably want your web apps to be used anywhere in the world. ASP.NET AJAX applications include a significant amount of client-side code, but this is not covered by the standard ASP.NET localization model. Is there a better way to localize you ASP...

One of the coolest things about working at MSDN Magazine is the exposure I get to all the different technologies coming down the pipe from all over the company.  One of these that recently grabbed my attention was the set of enhancements that the...

The January 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/default.aspx . The January issue features a focus on Web-related development technologies. Mike Volodarsky starts us out with a look at the...

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) was introduced in Windows Server 2003 for organizations that need to participate in standards-based identity federation. With ADFS, you can more easily validate identity data from other organizations, leading...

The Visual C++ team developed the Active Template Library (ATL) to allow COM clients and servers to be easily created while producing the smallest and fastest code possible. Windows Template Library (WTL) extends ATL with a very rich set of class templates...

One of the benefits that we at MSDN Magazine are proud to be able to offer readers is access to many of the actual product groups at Microsoft.  For those of you who read the magazine, you know that we run a column called CLR Inside Out - the column...

You might be surprised to know that COBOL is still a common language for business apps. According to a 2001 Gartner report on enterprise programming language adoption, more than 60 percent of the businesses surveyed still used COBOL. Almost every major...

You probably already know that Windows PowerShell is a powerful and flexible tool. You may not know, however, that you can easily extend Windows PowerShell by writing your own custom cmdlets. In the December issue of MSDN Magazine , Jim Truher shows you...

Say you'd like to execute a bunch of file operations as a batch. You'd like some extra doo-dads like a standard Windows progress bar for the operation. What's the best way to approach this problem? In the December issue of MSDN Magazine , Stephen Toub...

With Visual Studio 2008, you can build a solution that incorporates the native capabilities of an Office client application combined with the sophisticated UI capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation that's connected to remote data and services...

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) data-binding infrastructure is based around the concepts of dependency objects and dependency properties. A dependency object provides support for change notification and the ability to dynamically fetch and retrieve...

In a series of recent columns , Stanley B. Lippman has been working through the design of a software simulation of a mouse (EEK!) and its environment using the resources of the Microsoft .NET Framework and C++/CLI, the revised C++ language binding to...