Monday morning the June issue of MSDN Magazine will go live on our Web site . Here’s what you can expect to find in the magazine. Windows 8 figures prominently in the magazine in June, starting with Doug Holland’s piece titled “Code-Sharing Strategies...

Tomorrow afternoon the May issue of MSDN Magazine will go live on our Web site. Here’s what you can look forward to in the upcoming issue. Craig Shoemaker kicks things off with his feature “Parse JSON Strings in Windows Runtime Components.” The article...

The April issue of MSDN Magazine is live. This month’s issue leads off with Thomas Petchel’s feature, “ A Tour of C++/CX ,” which explores the C++/CX language extensions and how they can help developers build better Windows Store apps. Also this month...

Like a motorist driving by an ugly car wreck, I couldn’t help but follow the unfortunate events that occurred at the Pycon 2013 conference in Santa Clara earlier this week. The story is well known to most by now. Adria Richards, a developer evangelist...

Script Junkie just published the last in a four-part series on the Fabric.js JavaScript library for HTML5 canvas ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Fabric.js provides a suite of tools and resources for canvas, abstracting the low level Canvas API that can...

Around the 15 th of each month, MSDN Magazine publishes to its Web site additional features and columns. This month will lead off with Peter Vogel’s latest Patterns in Practice column, where Vogel continues to explore the Roles pattern he first...

It’s been busy around here ever since we published the Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine back in October. We’ve invited two new columns into the fold—Modern Apps and Windows Azure Insider—and dramatically shifted the focus of another in Charles...

Back in March of 2012, MSDN Magazine welcomed under its wing the Script Junkie Web development site. Script Junkie had gone all but fallow in the months after editor Rey Bango had moved on to other pursuits at Microsoft, so the goal was to move the site...

This week we launched a new Web column at MSDN Magazine, called Patterns in Practice. Written by veteran developer and author Peter Vogel, the new column looks at how patterns can be applied to specific programming challenges. In his inaugural column...

Charles Petzold this month launches his new DirectX Factor column , which will explore the opportunities developers have in Windows 8 to write fast, native code for both traditional client and mobile/tablet form factors. I caught up with Charles and asked...

Six and a half years ago I traveled down to post-Katrina New Orleans to write a feature story for Redmond Magazine titled Storm Warning . The article looked at the impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the IT infrastructure of New Orleans and surrounding...

October was our busiest month. Between our regular October issue and the super-sized Windows 8 special edition that went out mid-month, we more than doubled our usual editorial output for the month. And we did so while a lot of our Microsoft contributors...

Jeremy Likness wrote this month’s feature titled Windows Runtime Components in a .NET World . A principal consultant at Wintellect and a seasoned Silverlight developer, Likness has been involved with Windows 8 since the initial Developer Preview, and...

  In the October issue of MSDN Magazine Andrew Whitechapel undertook a really interesting experiment. In his feature “ Building an App for Both Windows Phone and iOS ,” he set out to develop the same application for both Windows Phone and iOS using...

Welcome to the Windows 8 special edition of MSDN Magazine. Over the past several months a talented team of authors, editors and Microsoft technical experts have worked together to produce a bonus issue of MSDN Magazine focused entirely on Windows 8, Windows...

A few months back I wrote about my transition to a standing desk . Fed up with sundry aches and issues caused by sitting for hours on end, I grabbed a few file boxes, propped my monitors, keyboard and mouse on them, and started working on my feet. From...

Like a lot of developers, my job has me spending a LOT of time sitting in front of a computer monitor. So much so that I'm constantly struggling with discomfort of one sort or another, be it a sore back or stiff neck or aching shoulders. By the end of...

The good folks over at Microsoft Patterns & Practices are up to their old tricks again, this time releasing a useful publication aimed at Windows Phone developers. Titled Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud , the...

Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. The pre-release code is available for immediate download in 14 languages. This latest release follows the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which Microsoft says was...

Tomorrow the next issue of MSDN Magazine officially hits the street. Leading off things are a pair of articles in our ongoing Common Language Runtime (CLR) feature series. Immo Landwerth offers a nice overview of the updated BCL with his piece, "What...

Earlier this month I posted part of an interview with Leland Holmquest, who wrote our fascinating April issue exploration of the Kinect SDK ( Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect ), in which he creates a Kinect-enabled Windows Presentation Foundation application...

Things continue to hop over at Script Junkie . New to the site is Leveraging the jQuery UI Widget Factory with Project Silk , a feature article by Andrew Wirick that explores how jQuery UI widgets are implemented in a complex Web application. To get his...

The April issue of MSDN Magazine includes an intriguing feature ( Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect ) that explores the unique capabilities of the Kinect for Windows SDK . Leland Holmquest, now an Enterprise Strategy Consultant with Microsoft, created...

This month's issue of MSDN Magazine includes a pair of feature articles on the new Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP) features of C+11 and the Visual C++ 11 IDE. Titled A Code-Based Introduction to C++ AMP and Introduction to Tiling in C++ AMP , the...

MSDN Magazine recently welcomed to its Web site the popular Script Junkie tutorial site , which offers useful tutorials for Web developers working with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Veteran Script Junkie author Emily Lewis just published to the site her latest...