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'll need the following information: A tentative...

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 Lifecycle Management April Programming and Design...

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 about the concrete stuff I’m envisioning, in...

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 to defend my ideas about column lineup, editorial...

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 articles, and I have no intention to touch...

Hello, everybody. Mi name is Diego Dagum and I recently became the new editor director for MSDN Magazine. After two years of leadership, former editor Howard Dierking decided to accept a new challenge , so we were working together these last weeks in the skill transfer. I’ll share some facts...

If you haven’t been following it over the last couple of months, we’ve been running a series of articles about brownfield development – authored by James Kovacs , Kyle Baley , and Donald Belcham .  The big idea here is that rather than have yet another article or set of articles about implementing...

It’s that time of year once again where I go through my column lineup to see how individual columns are performing and then use that data, along with various other inputs (like what topics I think are emerging and want to get ahead of, etc.) to determine next year’s column lineup.  I want to extend...

I’m sitting here in my hotel room at MIX 2009, where a ton of really huge announcements were made today.  In a much more scaled down attempt at continuing that tradition, I want to announce that starting in May, we are launching a 9 week series focused on introducing ASP.NET Web application developers...

We're currently in the process of stepping back and taking a critical look at our Web site to see how you all are using it - and how we can redesign parts of it (big or small) to make that experience better.  We are continuously receiving your feedback on existing frustrations and we are working...

So I'm not generally one for random promotions - just like I'm that guy who will predictably break the chain in an email forward.  However, I do want to let you know about the SQL Server 2008 "All For You" Sweepstakes for a couple reasons. MSDN Magazine and our sister publication, TechNet...

As I mentioned in a recent editor's note , one topic that you said you would like to see more of is database development. While this request was not entirely unexpected, it's not all that clearly defined in my mind either. I think that the reason has more to do with the length of time that I've been...

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 is authored by the product team that develops...

For the past month or so we've been blogging about each of the articles in the current issue. I was hoping this would give each one a bit more special attention than it gets in the table of contents. Plus, it gives us a chance to highlight related information -- RSS feeds, archived articles, related...

MSDN Magazine rocks! I truly believe it to be one of the best resources out there for developers working with Microsoft technologies, and I sincerely hope it will continue to be so for years to come. I have, however, decided to move on to other endeavors at Microsoft, and as such am leaving the MSDN...

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 scooter while another reflects on his own...

For those of you old enough to remember, Visual Studio was introduced a decade ago. The June ednote looks back at those wild days of 1997, and then doubles back around to 2007. Comments welcome! - J.T. 1997 was a happenin’ year. The first Web boom was taking hold. Everyone on the block had a...

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 have any problems with it? This is open for discussion...