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"CLR Inside Out" Needs Your Ideas

One of the benefits that we at MSDN Magazine are proud to be able to offer readers is access to many of the actual product groups at Microsoft.  For those of you who read the magazine, you know that we run a column called CLR Inside Out - the column Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:57 AM by MSDNMagazine | 5 Comments

My Farewell

MSDN Magazine rocks! I truly believe it to be one of the best resources out there for developers working with Microsoft technologies, and I sincerely hope it will continue to be so for years to come. I have, however, decided to move on to other endeavors Read More...
Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 10:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 3 Comments
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Coding with Color

Historically, all of the code samples printed in MSDN Magazine and its predecessors have been monochromatic: black on green, black on white, black on grey, or something similar. Every year we reconsider this, tossing around the idea of printing all of Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 11:33 AM by MSDNMagazine | 5 Comments
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Q&As from today's talk

Josh and I received some good questions today in our TechEd 2007 talk on writing for MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine . Here are the answers to a few of the questions that were asked. We'll post again with more questions (and answers) from the week Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:04 AM by MSDNMagazine | 4 Comments
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Does size matter?

An eternal question, and one as relevant to a magazine as to anything else. The processes behind MSDN Magazine are subject to many of the same constraints as are most other production products, including software products. This includes the classic project Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:30 PM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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Extracting images from .doc files

I posted previously about needing the ability to extract images from articles submitted by our authors. I also posted about how to write tools to do this programmatically, from both Word .docx files and packaged files in general. However, due to the fact Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 9:54 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Extracting images using the .NET Packaging APIs

I posted yesterday about a simple tool you can write to extract images from .docx files . That code relies on the packaging format specific to Word documents, meaning that it expects certain files to be in the package and certain relationships to exist Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:22 AM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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Extracting images from .docx files

I mentioned previously how we frequently need to extract images from articles submitted to MSDN Magazine as .docx files. Doing this manually is very straightforward: change the file's .docx extension to .zip, open the compressed folder in Windows Explorer, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:46 AM by MSDNMagazine | 2 Comments
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An Issue in Review

I often receive questions, especially from new authors to the magazine, about what it takes to put out an issue of the magazine, what our schedule is behind the scenes, and so forth. We spend a lot of time working to make MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 11:01 AM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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An Inside Look at Magazine Printing

Ever wonder what it takes to print the magazines you read every day? Valerie Myers, the art and production director for MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine , recently visited our printer in Wisconsin and wrote a cool blog post detailing the experience Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:01 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Want my job?

I have an awesome and fairly unique job at Microsoft. I get to decide what content ends up in the pages of MSDN Magazine. I get to ship a best-in-its-class product, and I get to do it every month. I get to write in-depth technical articles and code samples Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:01 AM by MSDNMagazine | 3 Comments
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TechEd 2007 Talks

Joshua Hoffman, my counterpart over at TechNet Magazine , posted today about some of our TechEd 2007 plans. He and I will be doing several lunchtime sessions on how to go about writing for and getting published in MSDN Magazine and TechNet Magazine . Read More...
Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 2:39 PM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Article pagination... good or bad?

For the MSDN Magazine Web site, one concept we frequently revisit when thinking about how to improve it is that of article pagination. Some of the articles in the magazine are relatively long, and on the Web site, each article shows up as an individual Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:07 PM by MSDNMagazine | 23 Comments
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So You Want to Learn to Program

Maybe you’ve been dabbling in HTML and JavaScript and now you’re thinking about taking programming a bit more seriously. Or perhaps you have an idea for the next “killer” app—now you just need to learn how to create it. So you’ve been doing some research Read More...
Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 1:13 PM by MSDNMagazine | 6 Comments
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Getting Images Out

Our art & production team for MSDN Magazine has a request for authors that when submitting articles, images be sent along as a separate image files rather than being embedded in Word documents. Unfortunately, sometimes authors forget. Extracting images Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:04 PM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments
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