Leading off the feature in the January issue of MSDN Magazine is Lucian Wischik’s fantastic look at Visual Basic .NET 14. As Wischik writes, the newest version of Visual Basic has been written from the ground up, in Visual Basic no less, to support...

  Folks, things are hopping over here at MSDN Magazine. We are kicking off the new year with a pair of issues: Our regularly scheduled January issue and our special issue of the magazine focused on Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Azure. Definitely...

  As I describe in this month’s Editor’s Note column , the October issue of MSDN Magazine is Charles Petzold’s last as a regular columnist . He is leaving our pages to take on a role as a programmer and writer at cross-platform tools provider Xamarin...

  The July issue of MSDN Magazine is themed around the updated features and functionality of Microsoft Azure Web Sites, and reflects the rapid-fire pace of development we’ve seen in and around Microsoft’s cloud operating system. A package of five...

David Platt has been writing the back page Don’t Get Me Started column at MSDN Magazine for going on five years now. The author of “Why Software Sucks” pulls few punches, and has shown a willingness to kick a hornets nest from time to time. So when Platt...

Be sure to check out the May issue of MSDN Magazine, which spotlights some of the powerful new capabilities highlighted at the Microsoft Build Conference last month. Our lead feature , by Mark Michaelis, explores the new features and capabilities coming...

In the March issue of MSDN Magazine, Microsoft’s Donn Morse wrote a feature titled “ Building a Netduino-based HID Sensor for WinRT ." The feature looks at how developers can take advantage of the new API in the Windows Runtime to let developers...

The April issue of MSDN Magazine is just around the corner and will lead off with Bill Kratochvil’s feature titled, “Windows Store C++ for C# Developers: Understanding the Domain.” The article aims to show C# developers how they can incorporate C++ components...

This month’s Editor’s Note ( Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Calvin and Hobbes ) highlights some useful lessons developers can take from Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip about a six-year-old boy and his stuffed Tiger, Hobbes. For 10 years...

When David Platt wrote his November 2013 “Don’t Get Me Started” column ( Advice to the New CEO ), offering straight talk advice to the then-unknown future CEO of Microsoft, Platt laid out four points of action. Briefly stated, they were: 1. Transform...

Charles Petzold is a man who requires no introduction among MSDN Magazine readers (but if you need one, here’s my column about his 25 years of service to the magazine). Author of the definitive book Programming Windows (now in its sixth edition), he wrote...

In the current, March issue of MSDN Magazine, you can read Bruno Terkaly and Ricardo Villalobos’ latest Windows Azure Insider column, titled “ The Windows Azure Service Bus and the Internet of Things, Part 2 .” The column dives into the specifics of machine...

As I wrote earlier , the Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine, currently live on our Web site, is worth checking out. The articles in the special issue are all aligned toward government-focused app dev scenarios, but the principles and concepts definitely...

Visit the MSDN Magazine Web site and you’ll see we’ve been a bit busier than usual of late. In addition to the regularly scheduled November issue , featuring guidance on ASP.NET Web API , MVVM development , and Office 365 and Visual Studio 2013 , this...

Monday morning the June issue of MSDN Magazine will go live on our Web site . Here’s what you can expect to find in the magazine. Windows 8 figures prominently in the magazine in June, starting with Doug Holland’s piece titled “Code...

Tomorrow afternoon the May issue of MSDN Magazine will go live on our Web site. Here’s what you can look forward to in the upcoming issue. Craig Shoemaker kicks things off with his feature “Parse JSON Strings in Windows Runtime Components.” The article...

The April issue of MSDN Magazine is live. This month’s issue leads off with Thomas Petchel’s feature, “ A Tour of C++/CX ,” which explores the C++/CX language extensions and how they can help developers build better Windows Store apps. Also this month...

Like a motorist driving by an ugly car wreck, I couldn’t help but follow the unfortunate events that occurred at the Pycon 2013 conference in Santa Clara earlier this week. The story is well known to most by now. Adria Richards, a developer evangelist...

Script Junkie just published the last in a four-part series on the Fabric.js JavaScript library for HTML5 canvas ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Fabric.js provides a suite of tools and resources for canvas, abstracting the low level Canvas API that can...

Around the 15 th of each month, MSDN Magazine publishes to its Web site additional features and columns. This month will lead off with Peter Vogel’s latest Patterns in Practice column, where Vogel continues to explore the Roles pattern he first...

It’s been busy around here ever since we published the Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine back in October. We’ve invited two new columns into the fold—Modern Apps and Windows Azure Insider—and dramatically shifted the focus of another in Charles...

Back in March of 2012, MSDN Magazine welcomed under its wing the Script Junkie Web development site. Script Junkie had gone all but fallow in the months after editor Rey Bango had moved on to other pursuits at Microsoft, so the goal was to move the site...

This week we launched a new Web column at MSDN Magazine, called Patterns in Practice. Written by veteran developer and author Peter Vogel, the new column looks at how patterns can be applied to specific programming challenges. In his inaugural column...

Charles Petzold this month launches his new DirectX Factor column , which will explore the opportunities developers have in Windows 8 to write fast, native code for both traditional client and mobile/tablet form factors. I caught up with Charles and asked...

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...