While my job here at Microsoft consumes much of my waking life, I spend a little of my spare time volunteering with a small charitable organization called HEAL Africa . They do work in the Democratic Republic of Congo healing victims of sexual violence...

At PDC 2000, we rolled out the .NET platform, including a new language called C#. A lot has happened since then! Each release has had a theme – in C# 2 we added generics ; in C# 3 it was LINQ . Most recently in C#  4 with VS2010 we introduced deeper...

The HTML5 family of specifications provide two different models for vector graphics : canvas and SVG . Why have both? What is the difference between them, and how do you use them? It’s important to start by understanding the difference between retained...

MVVM (Model/View/ViewModel) is an architectural pattern that is well-suited for Silverlight and WPF development. It is a variation of the MVC pattern that originated from the development of Expression Blend. At its heart, MVVM imposes three kinds of classes...

Websites are exploding in the quantity of interactivity they contain: over the last few years, they have become fully-fledged applications with functionality and complexity at a level that was previously limited to desktop applications. Scripting Engine...

Browser performance is a multi-dimensional topic: there are eleven different subsystems that taken together can affect the overall performance of a browser: Different browsers may organize their internal implementation differently, but all these elements...