Windows Core Networking
Windows Core Networking APIs and technologies such as Winsock, TCP/IP stack, WFP, IPsec, IPv6, WSK, WinINet, Http.sys, WinHttp, QoS, and System.Net
Final version of Windows Web Services API for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 is now available!
The final version of the Windows Web Services API for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003...
Date: 10/09/2009
For the super eagle eyed developer or Web Server admin, you might have noticed that cache entry...
Date: 07/06/2009
HTTP is a request/response protocol. You request some resource like the HTML of a webpage and the...
Date: 05/08/2009
Update: This tool is no longer available on Microsoft Connect and there is no replacement download...
Date: 05/07/2009
Just a quick note that over on on haoxu’ s “Lost in History” blog is a posting about how to create...
Date: 05/06/2009
Update: This tool is no longer available on Microsoft Connect and there is no replacement download...
Date: 04/30/2009
Windows Web Services API team has just release the Beta version of the API for Windows XP, Windows...
Date: 02/24/2009
Hello all. My name is Charley. I’m the new QoS program manager for Windows Core Networking. It has...
Date: 01/27/2009
We are demoing Windows 7 Direct Access and Windows 7 Branch Cache at the PDC08 pavillion. We are the...
Date: 10/29/2008
I’ve been pretty busy Engineering Windows 7 with the rest of the windows networking team and we are...
Date: 10/07/2008
A page to dump quick downloads AsyncSocketServer.zip
Date: 04/21/2008
Hello All, I am continuing the "WinHTTP Questions" series with some questions on WinHTTP callbacks....
Date: 03/03/2008
Hello, my name is Deepak and I'm a SDET in serviceability. We handle a bunch of questions from...
Date: 02/25/2008
Windows Server 2008 incorporates the completely rewritten TCP/IP stack we shipped in Windows Vista...
Date: 01/07/2008
Just wanted to drop a quick Happy New Year to our readers and see if there is any topics that you...
Date: 01/07/2008
In his introductory post about the legacy Traffic Control (TC) API, Gabe discussed the host-based...
Date: 11/14/2007
Disclaimer: Traffic Control (TC) APIs have been marked as deprecated, and will be phased out...
Date: 10/09/2007
A number of partners who author wireless drivers for Vista have asked how they can ensure their WiFi...
Date: 09/18/2007
Parts 1 and 2 of this series discussed how to determine whether an 802.1p tag was added to traffic,...
Date: 09/14/2007
In Gabe’s last post on detecting 802.1p priority tags, he described at a relatively high-level why...
Date: 09/13/2007
Consider a case where a network application calls Windows QoS APIs to add a layer-2 IEEE 802.1Q...
Date: 09/07/2007
Mark Russinovich has a great post today on the what and how of the network/multimedia vista issue...
Date: 08/27/2007
Ask Perf, the blog of the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team, is spending some...
Date: 08/21/2007
I recently needed to generate XML from PowerShell and was disappointed to see the PowerShell blog...
Date: 06/15/2007
I noticed that there was a demo of Rally technologies at the WinHEC keynote the other day, so I...
Date: 05/16/2007
In my previous posts, I described the new WinHttp proxy, tracing and client certificate...
Date: 03/21/2007
I've been asked a couple times about the socket option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Vista and especially...
Date: 03/19/2007
As per my last post, there is a new namespace (System.Net.PeerToPeer) available in the .NET...
Date: 03/12/2007
The March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of the .NET Framework V3.5 codenamed...
Date: 02/28/2007
Recently, I read a great article on ZDNet that discusses the challenges IEEE 802.11n faces with...
Date: 02/09/2007
Have you worked on a Winsock Layered Service Provider (LSP) or are you considering using the...
Date: 02/07/2007
If you have worked on an application (commercial, prototype, hobby, etc) which accessed a network...
Date: 02/07/2007
Congratulations to D-Link (powered by Ubicom) for being the first ever to acheive a Windows Vista...
Date: 02/07/2007
Congratulations to Buffalo for being the first to acheive a Certified for Windows Vista logo for...
Date: 02/05/2007
Hello, my name is Marcus Frazier. I am a developer on the WinInet team and I am here to talk about...
Date: 02/05/2007
A few months ago, a technical account manager for a customer sent an email to everyone in Windows...
Date: 02/02/2007
Now that you are somewhat familiar with a single ETW event, let’s illustrate what a typical HTTP...
Date: 02/01/2007
Continuing the series on Http.sys ETW Tracing, we will dissect an event as displayed in the default...
Date: 01/25/2007
Hi, I'm Jeff Balsley a test developer in the HTTP.sys team in Windows Networking. In this series I...
Date: 01/18/2007
In my first post of this series, I talked about Windows Connect Now (WCN) and how easy it is in...
Date: 01/05/2007
In addition to a completely re-written core networking stack, Windows Vista makes networking a...
Date: 01/04/2007
There are two main Winsock headers used depending on which version your application needs. There is...
Date: 12/18/2006
There is a new video up on channel9 talking about Coding to support IPv6. Go check it out! -- Ari...
Date: 12/13/2006
An LSP (or Winsock provider) can be installed into the Winsock catalog through several different...
Date: 11/28/2006
Exciting news; the Windows Rally Development Kit was publicly released today on the Windows Rally...
Date: 11/03/2006
As Gabe mentioned in his blog post titled “Xbox 360 Fall Update Includes LLTD,” the Xbox 360 now...
Date: 11/03/2006
There has been a lot of buzz about the recent fall update for the Xbox 360; however, an important...
Date: 11/01/2006
Windows Vista makes it even simpler to be productive with keyboard shortcuts. To launch any app:...
Date: 10/31/2006
Hello, my name is Chad Carlin. I'm a software developer on the Winsock Test Team. Among the many...
Date: 10/26/2006