As a follow-up to Amy’s post on font smoothing , here’s a quick explanation of how you can turn off ClearType font smoothing before taking a screen capture in Windows Vista. Note that this really only applies to screens that will be used for print publication...

Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows Server 2008 include a new thread pool API that should make it much easier for developers to employ the thread pool effectively. In the October issue of MSDN Magazine, Robert Saccone shows you how the new thread pool...

In a layered Web app, the presentation layer is just as important as navigation logic, business logic, and data access. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Dino Esposito examines some design patterns for building an ASP.NET presentation layer...

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...

General Douglas MacArthur famously said during his 1951 farewell address to the U.S. Congress that “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” A half century later, MacArthur’s statement could just as easily apply to programming languages...

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...

MSDN Magazine today is adding to its Web site the popular Script Junkie tutorial site , which has been helping Web developers work with HTML, CSS and JavaScript since 2009. Previously hosted on MSDN.com, Script Junkie's valuable how-to and tutorial content...

In a few days the February issue of MSDN Magazine should be hitting mailboxes and Web browsers alike. In other words, it's time for an MSDN Magazine issue preview. Here's what's cooking for the shortest month of the year. Our lead feature in February...

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,...

A decade ago last month, Bill Gates wrote the now-famous Trustworthy Computing email that challenged Microsoft (and the broader IT and dev community) to fundamentally improve the security, reliability and robustness of applications and code. At Microsoft...

Gotta love leap year. Every four years (more or less, since there are rules to this thing , you know) we are awarded an extra day in what is widely regarded as the worst month of the year. More February? Who needs that? How about adding a July 4-and-1...

It's been four full days since Thanksgiving, and I'm still recovering from tryptophan poisoning. Fortunately, my drowsiness isn't holding things up at MSDN Magazine, where we soon expect to roll out the December issue. Leading things off in December is...

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 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...

Earlier this month I posted a blog post that followed up on the Editor's Note column ( A Quarter Century and Counting ) appearing in the January issue of MSDN Magazine. In the column, I recounted Charles Petzold's amazing 25-year run as a regular writer...

My nine-year-old daughter Maggie has a favorite joke. "April showers bring May flowers," she tells me. "Do you know what May flowers bring?" "Bees?" I answer. ("Bees" is my go to answer for any question that confuses...

This month MSDN Magazine launches a new online column focused on HTML5 and Web development, called Web Development Report. Penned by Rachel Appel, a Microsoft senior developer evangelist in the New York City area, the new column explores the fast-changing...

In this month's issue of MSDN Magazine, Colin Miller and Torsten Grabs authored the lead feature titled " Building the Internet of Things ." As Miller and Grabs describe it, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the emerging connected fabric of applications...

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...

In the current January issue of MSDN Magazine, I wrote about MSDN Magazine columnist Charles Petzold and his 25-year affiliation with our publication ( A Quarter Century and Counting ). It's amazing to think how far the magazine has come since the autumn...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) adds functionality to the Microsoft .NET Framework so that you actually can reliably keep bound controls synchronized with their data sources. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Ken Getz demonstrates how...

The March issue of MSDN Magazine went live on the first of the month, and brought along with it a few changes to the MSDN Magazine Web site. Scroll down past the print and online features sections, and you'll see our new By the Numbers department. This...

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...

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...

I was told by an author that using contractions (e.g. “we’ll” instead of “we will”, “you’re” instead of “you are”) in MSDN Magazine can cause confusion in readers for whom English is not their native tongue. I haven’t heard this as a general complaint...