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

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

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