Year: 2012

Six and a half years ago I traveled down to post-Katrina New Orleans to write a feature story for Redmond Magazine titled Storm Warning. The article looked at the impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the IT infrastructure of New Orleans and surrounding Jefferson Parish, and detailed the extraordinary efforts of the people tasked with…

October was our busiest month. Between our regular October issue and the super-sized Windows 8 special edition that went out mid-month, we more than doubled our usual editorial output for the month. And we did so while a lot of our Microsoft contributors were absolutely slammed working on the release of that Windows 8 thingy…

Jeremy Likness wrote this month’s feature titled Windows Runtime Components in a .NET World. A principal consultant at Wintellect and a seasoned Silverlight developer, Likness has been involved with Windows 8 since the initial Developer Preview, and started work at that time on his book, Building Windows 8 Apps using C# and XAML. He also…

  In the October issue of MSDN Magazine Andrew Whitechapel undertook a really interesting experiment. In his feature “Building an App for Both Windows Phone and iOS,” he set out to develop the same application for both Windows Phone and iOS using native tools. The idea was to learn how the two platforms compare from…

Welcome to the Windows 8 special edition of MSDN Magazine. Over the past several months a talented team of authors, editors and Microsoft technical experts have worked together to produce a bonus issue of MSDN Magazine focused entirely on Windows 8, Windows Runtime and the development of Windows Store applications. As I explain in my…

A few months back I wrote about my transition to a standing desk. Fed up with sundry aches and issues caused by sitting for hours on end, I grabbed a few file boxes, propped my monitors, keyboard and mouse on them, and started working on my feet. From day one, the change agreed with me….

Like a lot of developers, my job has me spending a LOT of time sitting in front of a computer monitor. So much so that I’m constantly struggling with discomfort of one sort or another, be it a sore back or stiff neck or aching shoulders. By the end of the day I’m struggling with…

The good folks over at Microsoft Patterns & Practices are up to their old tricks again, this time releasing a useful publication aimed at Windows Phone developers. Titled Developing an Advanced Windows Phone 7.5 App that Connects to the Cloud, the guide leads you through creating a Windows Phone 7.5 app that integrates with remote…

Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. The pre-release code is available for immediate download in 14 languages. This latest release follows the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which Microsoft says was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. No doubt Windows 8 Release Preview will…

Tomorrow the next issue of MSDN Magazine officially hits the street. Leading off things are a pair of articles in our ongoing Common Language Runtime (CLR) feature series. Immo Landwerth offers a nice overview of the updated BCL with his piece, “What’s New in the .NET 4.5 Base Class Library.” Alok Shriram, meanwhile, dives into…