We didn't publish any significant content to the developer center this week but I found a couple really neat resources and produced a short blog post on Using the Visual Studio Command Window . Dev Labs If you are looking for some cool hands on...

Here at Microsoft, developers LOVE the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) because it saves developers time by being well featured and powerful. After working at Microsoft for a while I noticed that the Windows core developers use a...

This week, we published a new whitepaper and produced a short video on building C++ projects using only the Windows SDK. Power Management Whitepaper We published the case study: Adobe Flash Player gets Energy Smart to the Windows Power Management...

I have been using smartphones since I could afford them roughly seven years ago and have been using PDAs since I was a nerd in high school in the late 90s but only recently have I really had this moment of, "Wow, these are amazing devices that ...

Internationalization / Loc Pilot I mentioned in an earlier post this week that we have localized some existing DPE content to the ZN-CN locale . In addition to these videos, new translations to the JA-JP locale have been produced. The following list...

On Friday, I wrote a brief post about content from the MSDN Library that was recently localized as a pilot to test the impact with developer content. There was also a few videos that were subtitled in ZN-CN. The following list summarizes these: ...

Developer Content Internationalization Pilot For the first time, we have internationalized many large swaths of the Windows developer content on MSDN. This effort was piloted by my teammate who had experience with internationalization and has very...

I just saw a couple of fun posts about the Redmond Reality Distortion Field (RD F ) and it really resonated with how we organize our developer documentation and how we think about our products. The gist of what the RDF means in the context of Microsoft...

2010 has been a great year for me and for the Windows Developer center and it has been a blast working on some really cool projects. The biggest highlights from last year that I can remember right now are: The Hilo Learning Series Power Management...