Windows Core Networking

The March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of the .NET Framework V3.5 codenamed "Orcas" is now available for download. To obtain the bits and learn more about the Orcas release, please see the download site Among the new features in the...

Recently, I read a great article on ZDNet that discusses the challenges IEEE 802.11n faces with 2.4GHz operation. The article is appropriately titled The Consequences of Abandoning the 5GHz Frontier , and discusses some history, backward compatibility...

Have you worked on a Winsock Layered Service Provider (LSP) or are you considering using the technology in a future project? If so, we would like to hear your feedback. Your responses will be directly reviewed by the team which designs and maintains the...

If you have worked on an application (commercial, prototype, hobby, etc) which accessed a network (ex. Winsock API, System.Net namespace, etc), we would like to hear about your experiences. Your feedback will be directly reviewed by member of the Windows...

Congratulations to D-Link (powered by Ubicom ) for being the first ever to acheive a Windows Vista logo for the DIR-655 wireless router. While Buffalo acheived the premium "Certified for Windows Vista" logo , D-Link was first to meet the baseline "Works...

Congratulations to Buffalo for being the first to acheive a Certified for Windows Vista logo for their dual-band WZR-AG300NH wireless router. In short, this device passed over eight hours worth of rigerous testing designed to ensure a fantastic...

Hello, my name is Marcus Frazier. I am a developer on the WinInet team and I am here to talk about reading and understanding WinInet ETW logs. If you need to know how to capture these logs, check out Jonathan’s post . Keep in mind that WinInet ETW tracing...

A few months ago, a technical account manager for a customer sent an email to everyone in Windows networking asking about QoS support in Windows. When answering the question, I realized that there was no single document or web page that outlined the level...

Now that you are somewhat familiar with a single ETW event, let’s illustrate what a typical HTTP request looks like. Here, I’ve made a simple HTTP request to a web server, IIS7 in this case. I’ve taken the liberty of pulling out all important data from...