Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the next version of Windows Phone is en route to customers. As Eric Hautala wrote on the Windows Phone Blog: “This morning, at roughly 10 a.m. Pacific time, we began rolling out the Mango update to phones around...

By now, some of you may already have the October issue of MSDN Magazine in hand. Regardless of when you finally receive your issue -- or simply choose to access it at our Web site -- you'll be welcomed by a deep dive into the powerful new asynchronous...

Today we continue the series of MSDN Magazine blog posts offering attendee takes on the recently concluded Microsoft BUILD Conference. In this installment I ask Stephen Chapman, whose Microsoft Kitchen blog focuses on user interface and experience, for...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) allows extensive control over the messaging functions of an application. MSDN Library has recently published a host of new articles that detail how you can implement and configure the various features available with...

By almost any measure, the Microsoft BUILD Conference was big. As attendees return home and digest all that Microsoft has presented, I’m reaching out to key experts and capturing their impressions. Today, I sit down with Andrew Brust, founder of Blue...

Visual Studio 11 Developer Edition was released with a pre-release version of F# 3.0, the latest version of Microsoft’s functional programming language, designed to, as the F# team put it, let developers “write simple code to solve complex problems.”...

I asked last week whether or not the BUILD Conference could possibly live up to the hype and anticipation that had grown around it. With the formal reveal of Windows 8, the technical detail released around the new Windows Runtime stack, and the release...

Watching Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer cap the Day 2 keynote address at the Microsoft BUILD Conference, I couldn't help but feel a strong sense of déjà vu. Despite the touch-sensitive tablets, the cloud-savvy tool demos...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Microsoft drops yet another developer preview -- this time a preview version of the F# 3.0 programming language. The Visual Studio F# Team Blog offers plenty of detail on the new preview release...

Scott Guthrie may be corporate vice president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, where he heads up Windows Azure app development, but that didn't stop him from giving an action-packed demo of the new capabilities coming to ASP.NET MVC. Async functionality...

The BUILD Conference in Anaheim may have people's heads spinning, but that doesn't mean all the other folks at Microsoft aren't hard at work. Case in point: The people at MSDN Library recently posted a series of Agile focused articles, adapted from the...

Microsoft sure knows how to fill a room. The company has had September 13 circled on everyone's calendar for months, promising to lift the veil on a host of strategically important technologies and initiatives at this week's show . Whether you are anxious...

Every month, the 5 Questions blog series follows up on features and columns published in the current issue of MSDN Magazine. This month, I follow up with Brandon Satrom, Microsoft developer evangelist and author of this month's feature on HTML5 development...

During his 15 years at Microsoft, Dave Mendlen has become something of a fixture in the development tools business at Microsoft. At one time a speechwriter for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Mendlen first got his start in Redmond as a product manager for...

Last week, the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) group in Microsoft released an update to three of its tools -- Threat Modeling, MiniFuzz and RegExFuzz -- incorporating feedback from the field and adding robust support for Visual Studio 2010...

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. The MSDN Magazine Web site has gotten a makeover. One that we hope will do an even better job of serving our readers and making accessible the valuable how-to features and columns published in every issue of...