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2017 3

  1. Sign up for the Visual Studio 2017 launch event
  2. Create cross-device experiences with the Project Rome SDK for Android
  3. New course: Microsoft Blockchain as a Service

2016 18

  1. Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 is posted
  2. New course on edX: CSS Introduction
  3. Bring your Windows desktop applications to the Windows Store with the Desktop App Converter
  4. Calling local coders to join inaugural Zoohackathon
  5. Microsoft HoloLens: Actiongram Beta featuring George Takei
  6. Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK now available – Submit your desktop apps to the Windows Store by using Centennial bridge
  7. Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 available
  8. Office brings Focused Inbox to all versions of Outlook – Clutter folder to be retired
  9. Microsoft Professional Degree: Data Science
  10. More Personal Computing: Deep dive into the FamilyNotes sample app
  11. Announcing .NET Core 1.0 for OS X, Linux, and Windows
  12. Intro to DevOps: New certificate class at edX
  13. Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 is available
  14. Edward Tufte is coming to town
  15. Going cross-platform with Visual Studio and Xamarin
  16. Remote Desktop for Windows 10 exits preview, now available as a UWP app
  17. More Personal Computing in Windows 10: Using Ink, Voice, and Face Recognition in a UWP App
  18. Blog reboot

2014 2

  1. Visual Studio “14” CTP is available
  2. DirectX 12 announced: Get the deets here

2013 32

  1. Weathr, a 3D weather app: code sample in C++, DirectX, and XAML
  2. First look: Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview SDK
  3. DirectX game templates for Visual Studio are posted
  4. Add Facebook login to your Windows Store apps
  5. How to align sensors with your app’s orientation
  6. Quick tips for porting a XAML Split App to Windows 8.1
  7. Reddit: Hi! We're Windows 8.1 engineers. Ask us anything!
  8. Publishing your apps to the Windows Store for Windows 8.1
  9. Retargeting your Windows Store apps to Windows 8.1 and WinJS 2.0
  10. Kinect for Windows SDK v1.8 released, with HTML5, Kinect Fusion improvements, and more
  11. Neuroheadset Kickstarter project: 34 hours and $16,000 to go on $1.5 million goal – UPDATE: We made it!
  12. Greatly improved neuroheadset closes in on $1.5 million Kickstarter goal
  13. Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1: Textures
  14. Notes on porting to DirectX 11.1 from earlier versions
  15. Use open source code in your Windows Store apps: Cocos2DX, Cinder, Ogre3D, Box2D, Bullet, OpenCV, and Angle in Visual C++
  16. API diff report for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview
  17. Build 2013 roundup
  18. New help for porting iOS apps to Windows Store apps
  19. Install Windows 8.1 Preview
  20. One Dev Minute videos are live on Channel 9
  21. Asynchronous programming for Windows Store apps written in JavaScript
  22. Windows 8.1 features revealed
  23. Create location aware apps using geolocation and Bing Maps
  24. New Windows Dev Center experience is live
  25. Add NFC to your Windows Store app
  26. Sign up for the Unity for Windows Store Apps open beta
  27. Channel 9 app drops
  28. BUILD Windows conference announced: June 26 in San Francisco
  29. Sample Browser app is available in the Windows Store
  30. Developing games for Windows 8? Start here.
  31. Kinect SDK 1.7 with Interactions and Fusion is posted
  32. Kinect for Windows developer blog launches with announcement of new open source sample code

2012 13

  1. Video: Mapping your location in Windows 8 apps
  2. Surface Pro pricing and availability announced
  3. Windows Server Posterpedia app is available in the Windows Store
  4. Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Kraig Brockschmidt
  5. Introducing Windows Store App Labs for app builders
  6. Windows 8 RTM is available for developers
  7. Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 released
  8. Microsoft and climate science
  9. SkyDrive limited-time loyalty offer: upgrade to 25GB
  10. Emotiv Engine Client Library is posted at CodePlex
  11. Windows 8 Consumer Preview is live
  12. Kinect-Emotiv mashup prototype
  13. Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0 is posted

2011 11

  1. Kinect For Windows SDK beta is posted
  2. Building "Windows 8" - Video #1
  3. Kinect and WorldWide Telescope at MIX ‘11
  4. Live stream from Mix ‘11
  5. Microsoft, Toyota to partner on cloud-powered auto advances
  6. NYC Kinect event: How to get your Kinect app on Microsoft platforms with Dave Drach
  7. MIX 11 - April 12-14, 2011, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
  8. Getting started with Kinect development
  9. Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is posted
  10. Non-commercial Kinect SDK to ship in Spring
  11. Jan 27th: Change to MSDN blogs user accounts

2010 19

  1. Official Kinect drivers are released
  2. Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch
  3. Patterns and Practices guide: Developing Applications for the Cloud
  4. Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools are live
  5. IE9 Beta is posted
  6. Again with the brainwaves
  7. Test driving the fourth IE9 Platform Preview
  8. Near-realtime power usage reporting up and running at my place
  9. Don Burnett compares iPhone development to Phone 7
  10. Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta is posted
  11. Modern programming: A tale of four frameworks
  12. COM Technical Overview topic is live
  13. Expression Blend 4 now available for download
  14. COM Is Love
  15. Office 2010 launches on May 12th
  16. Visual Studio 2010 is live
  17. Fun with brainwaves, part 3: Here’s some code
  18. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidates are posted
  19. Realtime Brainwave Data with WPF

2009 11

  1. WPF and Bling
  2. WPF samples now available at Code Gallery
  3. Fun with brainwaves, part 2
  4. Fun with brainwaves, part 1
  5. WPF Designer sample code is posted
  6. TestApi v0.3 Posted
  7. WPF and the Parallel Extensions, Updated
  8. Sensors in my Pocket PC
  9. Microsoft and Earth Week
  10. Live streaming from MIX ‘09
  11. WPF and the Parallel Extensions

2008 17

  1. A simple particle system
  2. Silverlight designer extensibility
  3. WPF developers take note: WPF Designer Hotfix is posted
  4. Visualizing Climate Data in Phase Space, Part 2
  5. WPF Chrome deep dive
  6. XamlpadX 4.0 now available
  7. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Docs Are Live on MSDN
  8. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 are Live
  9. Visualizing Climate Data in Phase Space
  10. WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta
  11. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is posted
  12. Using WriteableBitmap to Display a Procedural Texture
  13. Big Announcements at MIX '08
  14. Using the WPF Designer: Guidance for Windows Forms Developers
  15. MSDN Code Gallery Launched
  16. Silverlight 1.0 on Microsoft Update and WSUS
  17. Silverlight Fire Starter video site at MIX University

2007 40

  1. Mobiform's VantagePoint WPF Controls released
  2. WPF Designer docs are posted
  3. Troubleshooting WPF Designer load failures
  4. .NET Framework source code to be released
  5. Super-cool angiography application built using WPF
  6. Neat new features on MSDN Forums
  7. Silverlight 1.0 released to web -- Linux support announced
  8. Cider Extensibility Help Documentation
  9. Blend 2 August Preview with Silverlight support is posted
  10. MLB is live with Silverlight
  11. Visual Studio Orcas Beta2 is posted
  12. Tagging arrives at MSDN
  13. How-do-I video series for WPF is live at WindowsClient.net
  14. Media Barrage clip posted
  15. Making your WPF apps power-aware
  16. A little clarification on VS 2005 Extensions for .Net 3.0, aka Fidalgo
  17. So you want XAML tools
  18. Microsoft Surface Announced
  19. WindowsClient.net is up and running
  20. Pointing a 3D Model Along a Direction Vector
  21. Here's a nice reference on 3D performance
  22. More on Multithreaded UI in WPF
  23. WPF Performance Suite Available with .NET Framework 3.5
  24. Now available: Windows SDK for Longhorn Beta3 and .NET Framework 3.5
  25. Another gorgeous XBAP from Japan
  26. Infragistics releases WPF toolset
  27. Light Up the Web: Silverlight Announced
  28. DevConnections Day Zero: SpongeBob Mocks Me
  29. WPF team announces individual sample downloads
  30. I'll be at the Spring Connections 2007 Conference next week
  31. Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Vista is now posted
  32. Orcas March CTP is posted
  33. If you like the Office 2007 Ribbon, here's a WPF version:
  34. Cool XBAPs from Japan
  35. ITN's news viewer launched
  36. WPF and Cider Wikis are available
  37. Orcas January CTP is posted
  38. SlideShow control: Loading files off-thread
  39. Windows Home Server announced
  40. MSDN Wiki comes to the Windows SDK docs

2006 21

  1. Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is posted
  2. 2D on 3D: The new hotness
  3. RIP MDX 2.0
  4. Visual Studio 2005 SDK 4.0 (December CTP) is available
  5. Expression Blend Beta (formerly "Sparkle") is available for download
  6. Sparkle Public Beta coming soon...
  7. Fidalgo November CTP posted
  8. Windows SDK has been released to web
  9. Orcas October CTP is posted
  10. October CTP and the last build of Fidalgo
  11. Scott Berry: Windows Forms/WPF Interop Gotchas
  12. RC1 Windows Vista SDK docs are now online
  13. The WPF/XAML Conversion Tool Contest
  14. New white paper on extending the Windows Forms Designer
  15. A System-monitoring Application
  16. Mike Localizes
  17. Manually Creating a WPF Project Using Visual Studio
  18. This is just too cool: WPF/E at Mix '06
  19. Moving Again
  20. February CTP coming soon, with a little gotcha
  21. More WMP Play, Part 2

2005 12

  1. Dr. Dobb's Journal interviews Mike Henderlight
  2. Seen on a whiteboard in the Cider devs' hallway:
  3. Dude, Where's My 3D?
  4. More WMP play, Part I
  5. WMP Redux
  6. The New Chris Sells Book
  7. Workaround: ActiveX Controls Not Working via XAML
  8. Playing with the WMPSDK
  9. Consuming Cider product specs
  10. Notes from the WPF SDR
  11. Speaking of WPF/WinForms interop
  12. Feet first