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The Case of Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput

Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 10:07 AM by wndpteam
Mark Russinovich has a great post today on the what and how of the network/multimedia vista issue that people have recently been talking about. Amusingly enough a couple people on /. more or less figured it out, but are only modded 3 and lower. Go Figure. Read More...
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Winsock SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Vista

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 2:12 PM by wndpteam
I've been asked a couple times about the socket option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Vista and especially how it relates to dual stack sockets. The following doc link describes the basic idea of this socket option: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740621.aspx Read More...
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The Importance of 5GHz Operation for Video

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 8:00 AM by wndpteam
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, Read More...
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Wireless Routers That Rock: First Works With Vista Router

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:00 AM by wndpteam
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 Read More...
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Wireless Routers That Rock: First Certified For Vista Router

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 4:47 PM by wndpteam
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 experience Read More...
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Windows Vista Networking Goodies, Part 2: Device & Service Discovery

Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 11:34 AM by wndpteam
In my first post of this series, I talked about Windows Connect Now (WCN) and how easy it is in Windows Vista to discover, configure, and securely connect devices to a wireless network. In this post, I’ll talk about how to discover PCs, devices, and services Read More...
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Windows Vista Networking Goodies, Part 1: Windows Connect Now

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:53 PM by wndpteam
In addition to a completely re-written core networking stack, Windows Vista makes networking a significantly easier proposition for home, small business, and enterprise users. In this multi-part series, I’ll describe some new features which greatly simplify Read More...
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Winsock Header Weirdness

Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 3:35 PM by wndpteam
There are two main Winsock headers used depending on which version your application needs. There is winsock.h for Winsock v1.x and winsock2.h for Winsock v2.x and they are mutually exclusive. That is, if you include both header files you will see a lot Read More...
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Our Mike Flasko and Anthony Jones on Channel 9

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:46 AM by wndpteam
There is a new video up on channel9 talking about Coding to support IPv6. Go check it out! -- Ari Pernick Read More...
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LLTD is Available for Non-Windows Platforms

Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:52 AM by wndpteam
Exciting news; the Windows Rally Development Kit was publicly released today on the Windows Rally technologies website! This porting kit is royalty free and provides full source code for an embedded Linux (yes, you read that correctly) reference implementation. Read More...
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Xbox 360 Fall Update Includes LLTD

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:49 PM by wndpteam
There has been a lot of buzz about the recent fall update for the Xbox 360; however, an important new feature which has not been mentioned is support for the Link Layer Topology Discovery ( LLTD ) protocol. In its basic form, LLTD allows a Windows Vista Read More...
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WSAPoll, A new Winsock API to simplify porting poll() applications to Winsock.

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:49 AM by wndpteam
Hello, my name is Chad Carlin. I'm a software developer on the Winsock Test Team. Among the many improvements to the Winsock API shipping in Vista is the new WSAPoll function. Its primary purpose is to simplify the porting of a sockets application that Read More...
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Creating IP Agnostic Applications - Part 2 (Dual Mode Sockets)

Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:59 AM by wndpteam
In a previous post I wrote about how on Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn," IPv6 is installed and enabled by default and that when both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled, the TCP/IP stack prefers to use IPv6 over IPv4. With the growth of IPv6, applications Read More...
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TDI Client to Winsock Kernel (WSK) Porting Survey

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:19 AM by wndpteam
As you know per previous posts on this blog , Winsock Kernel, a new transport-independent kernel mode Network Programming Interface (NPI), is available on Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn platforms. On Windows Vista & Windows Server Longhorn, Read More...
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How to find consumer network gear that rocks

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:00 AM by wndpteam
Over the past few years, we've seen consumer networking products get really cheap. While cheap in a currency sense is great, we're unfortunately left experiencing the same of product quality (usually while grimacing at the "getting started" manual). Consumer Read More...
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