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Lining Up Columns

Continuing with this series on my plans for MSDN Magazine, I’ll address here another question that I’m getting often these days. While a few posts ago I talked about the mindsets on which my content strategy is to be based , it’s now time to talk a bit Read More...
Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 2:17 AM by msdnmag | 0 Comments
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A Necessary 101 on Professional Application Development

I’m in the job of establishing partnerships with different stakeholders (authors, readers, vendors, colleagues, etc.) in order to consolidate the vision depicted in my last post about the editorial line I’d like to promote thru this magazine . In order Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:25 PM by msdnmag | 0 Comments

File > New > Project: Developing a New MSDN Magazine!!

For some while now, my colleagues were asking me about my plans for the magazine. In other words, my editorial line, editorial style. This post is all about it. While I’ll plan to keep magazine’s main structure composed by regular columns and featured Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:00 PM by msdnmag | 0 Comments

brownfield development – other ideas?

If you haven’t been following it over the last couple of months, we’ve been running a series of articles about brownfield development – authored by James Kovacs , Kyle Baley , and Donald Belcham .  The big idea here is that rather than have yet another Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:21 PM by hdierking | 3 Comments

"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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