Windows Core Networking

In Windows Vista, a great deal of effort has gone into making it simple for network applications to take advantage of QoS capable networks. This post focuses on QoS for WiFi networks (both consumer and enterprise) and how the Vista network stack enables...

If your enterprise wireless AP vendor of choice supports WMM (most likely), and the warriors that wander the halls and conference rooms tote laptops with WMM capable NICs (most likely), you should start taking advantage of this capability. Until Windows...

My previous post on WiFi QoS (WMM) discussed the four access classes (BG, BE, VI, and VO) available for traffic differentiation. I also highlighted that packets containing either a layer-2 802.1p tag or layer-3 DSCP mark (i.e. packets associated with...

As we begin the planning phase for our "Next Generation" client HTTP stack , we would love to hear from developers using our existing APIs (WinINet and WinHTTP). Please help us understand what your experience has been so far and what you would like to...

Last year we setup a small site on connect.microsoft.com in order to let our blog readers, developers and users file bugs, make suggestions and get some conntent like whitepapers and samples early. The downside to the site was that you couldn't easily...

We've just launched a new MSDN public forum for Windows Network Development. The first open forum for discussions is QoS/qWAVE; however, myriad others will follow. We highly encourage open discussion on these forums, and we'll be actively monitoring to...