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2011 1

  1. A Modern Browser

2010 15

  1. Top 10 Tips for the Effective Use of Social Media
  2. PDC10: Introducing HTML5 Vector Graphics
  3. PDC10: Kung Fu Silverlight – Architectural Patterns and Practices with MVVM and RIA Services
  4. PDC10: Unlocking the JavaScript Opportunity with IE9
  5. PDC10: Inside Internet Explorer Performance
  6. PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part Two
  7. PDC10: Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed: Part One
  8. PDC10: Session Time!
  9. Demo Failure: A Puzzle with an Amusing Ending
  10. Silverlight Hallowe’en Card
  11. Pushing the Boundaries of HTML5 Gaming: Jitterbugs
  12. Never Mind the Bullets: The “Making Of” Video…
  13. The Best Job in the Company…
  14. HTML5: A Specification or a Platform?
  15. Rebooting the Client Platform Blog

2009 15

  1. Live from LA, It’s the FREE Windows 7 Developer Bootcamp!
  2. A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7
  3. Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7
  4. Overview of Windows Azure
  5. Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application
  6. Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight
  7. MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design
  8. MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 1: Dean Hachamovitch on Internet Explorer 8
  9. Eight Reasons to Fall in Love with Internet Explorer 8
  10. About to Start Live Blogging the Day 2 MIX09 Keynotes
  11. Tracking MIX09
  12. Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application
  13. Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available...
  14. What Can YOU Do with 10K of Silverlight or WPF Code?
  15. Windows 7 Theme Packs: Customize Your Desktop

2008 28

  1. WPF Developers: PDC Wrap-Up and Visual Studio Tooling Update
  2. PDC Proceedings: The Book of the Conference
  3. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Here!
  4. Why You Want To Book Your PDC2008 Ticket NOW...
  5. 50 New Silverlight Screencasts - Short and Snappy
  6. Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation
  7. Great Silverlight 2 Demo: Healthcare Demonstrator
  8. Controlling the Distribution of Silverlight Updates in the Enterprise
  9. Silverlight 1.0 - New Maintenance Release Available
  10. Silverlight UK User Group: Inaugural Meeting April 2nd
  11. Silverlight Rehab
  12. What does Windows Vista SP1 Mean for Developers?
  13. Uploading Silverlight 2 Content to Silverlight Streaming
  14. Configuring a Web Server to Host Silverlight Content
  15. Have YOU Updated Your Windows SDK Recently?
  16. Off-Topic: Tipping in Las Vegas
  17. MIX08 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog
  18. Registering for the AOL Mail Client
  19. A Great Early Silverlight 2 Showcase: TextGlow
  20. So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?
  21. Download Links for MIX08 Announcements
  22. MIX08 for Non-Attendees
  23. Video.Show 1.0 Released to Web
  24. Windows '7' Technical Evangelist: Are YOU The Person We're Looking For?
  25. Great Line-of-Business Controls for WPF
  26. Flotzam: Mashing up the Web
  27. Making Silverlight Easier for Systems Administrators to Install...
  28. We've Released the News Reader SDK!

2007 79

  1. Silverlight Christmas Cards
  2. Great WPF Applications #17: HP Interactive Canvas
  3. Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?
  4. Share Your Christmas Wishlist / Hatelist with Silverlight
  5. The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution
  6. Great WPF Applications #16: Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista
  7. Video.Show Update: 1.0 Release Candidate Now LIve
  8. Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0
  9. Windows Survey on Deploying and Configuring Applications
  10. Introducing Video.Show: A Silverlight Reference-quality Sample
  11. Calling Silverlight 1.1 Developers: Do You Need to Update Your Machine?
  12. A Silverlight Greetings Card
  13. Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience
  14. Attend the WPF Virtual Bootcamp - no need to register!
  15. Silverlight 1.0 Issue Resolution Lab: November 2007
  16. Has Obama Declared for Silverlight?
  17. The Zero-Effort Guide to Preparing a Great WPF Presentation
  18. Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise
  19. Halo 3 and Silverlight
  20. The 100th WPF Channel 9 Video: KevinButton on WPF 3.5
  21. Updated Silverlight Samples and Yet More RC Bits
  22. Silverlight RC2 On The Way - We're Getting CLose!
  23. How to Embed Silverlight Content in Almost Any Web Page
  24. Silverlight 1.0 Beta to RC: It's Time To Move...
  25. What's New in WPF 3.5? Here's Fifteen Cool Features...
  26. Silverlight 1.0 RC1 is Here!
  27. Announcing Family.Show 2.0
  28. Preparing for Silverlight 1.0 RC and Beyond
  29. From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications
  30. Come to a Silverlight Lab in Redmond
  31. So You Want to Give a Silverlight Presentation?
  32. A Summer of WPF and Silverlight Training
  33. Some Great Silverlight Controls
  34. Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers
  35. More Fun with Silverlight Video: Ad Overlays
  36. Demo: The Power of Silverlight Video
  37. WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone
  38. Programming HTML with C#
  39. Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...
  40. Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design
  41. Silverlight in the UK and Ireland...
  42. Silverlight Streaming is Now Live
  43. Expression Media Encoder
  44. WPF Momentum Video
  45. Silverlight Screencasts
  46. Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show
  47. Silverlight Redux: Listening to Feedback...
  48. Introducing Expression Media Encoder
  49. Introducing Microsoft Silverlight
  50. Great WPF Applications #15: Microsoft Indexing Service
  51. Great WPF Applications #14: Zurich Airport
  52. Great WPF Applications #13: Pass
  53. Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Released...
  54. Great WPF Applications #12: Roxio Central
  55. Windows Vista Light-Up is Just a Recompile Away for Your MFC Application...
  56. WPF and Orcas
  57. WPF Chat Transcript #2 Now Available
  58. Great WPF Applications #11: Areva e-terravision
  59. Great WPF Applications #10: Daily Mail, Seattle P-I, forbes.com, New York Times
  60. Virtual PC Museum 2007
  61. Digg for WPF
  62. Great WPF Applications #9: Scripps Institute Cancer Research
  63. Great WPF Applications #8: NoteScraps
  64. Great WPF Applications #7: Skandia Cowes Week CourseSetter
  65. WPF / Expression Technical Chat: February 21st
  66. New Screencast Show on WPF and Expression
  67. Great WPF Applications #6: fnac.com
  68. Google, Share Prices and Ads
  69. Great WPF Applications #5: TF1
  70. Great WPF Applications #4: Otto
  71. WPF - State of the Nation, January 2007
  72. Great WPF Applications #2: Electric Rain StandOut
  73. Great WPF Applications #1: British Library Turning the Pages
  74. The Daily Show's Take on Windows Vista
  75. Great WPF Applications: Introduction
  76. The WPF Wiki is Here...
  77. WPF and WPF/E Bloggers List: Updated for 2007
  78. Comparing WPF on Windows Vista v. Windows XP
  79. WPF Technical Chat: Transcript Now Available...

2006 72

  1. Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation
  2. Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Compatible with WPF and WPF/E Templates
  3. WPF Unleashed - New Book from Sams Publishing
  4. Microsoft Expression Launch Event
  5. WPF Technical Chat: Thursday December 21st
  6. The Microsoft Office Prank
  7. New in WPF: Build a True 3D Application
  8. WPF in Three Dimensions
  9. Installing the WPF/E Developer Environment on Windows Vista
  10. The WPF/E Developer Environment
  11. Windows Vista Secret #11: Deleting the Undeletable
  12. Windows Vista Secret #10: Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Six Keystrokes
  13. A Sackful of WPF Tidbits
  14. Windows Vista Secret #9: Kill the Startup Monsters
  15. New York Times Reader
  16. Windows Vista Secret #8: Zoom in Explorer
  17. Preparing for Windows Vista
  18. Windows Vista Secret #7: The Oldest Component in Windows?
  19. Windows Vista Secret #6: Running a Command Prompt During Setup
  20. Windows Vista Secret #5: Running Quick Launch Items
  21. Windows Vista Secret #4: Disabling UAC
  22. Windows Presentation Foundation: Live on YouTube
  23. Windows Vista Secret #3: Bringing Back Start / Run
  24. Windows Vista Secret #2: Copy as Path
  25. Windows Vista Secret #1: Open Command Prompt Here
  26. The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista
  27. Windows Vista RC1 - Tools Ready...
  28. On the Glidepath to RTM
  29. Registering as Charles Petzold's #2 Fan
  30. The Power of the One Line Demo
  31. WPF State of the Nation
  32. A New Look and Feel for Windows?
  33. Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...
  34. This is Not The WPF Blog...
  35. Twenty of the First Windows Vista Applications - Is Yours Ready?
  36. Read the New York Times with Windows Presentation Foundation
  37. Which Colour Is Darker in WPF - Gray or DarkGray?
  38. Choosing Between Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Editions
  39. WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2 and the Dreaded Error 1603
  40. Windows Live Local Comes to the UK - And Much More...
  41. What's New in WPF Beta 2?
  42. The Art of Interviewing: A Follow-up
  43. Attend CompSci Classes at a World-Class University For Free!
  44. Editing an MSBuild Project File
  45. Windows Vista Aero Pt. 1 - Adding Glass to a Windows Forms Application
  46. Want to be the Next Tim Sneath?
  47. XPS Standalone Viewer Now Available
  48. Building WPF Projects on Vista Without Tools...
  49. Magnifier: An Interesting Discovery
  50. Learn WPF in 20 Minutes!
  51. The Inside Scoop on Interviewing at Microsoft
  52. iBloks: One of the First Commercial WPF Applications
  53. Getting Compatible with Windows Vista
  54. Troubleshooting Windows Presentation Foundation Install Issues
  55. Glaucoma! Glaucoma!
  56. Expression Interactive Designer and Graphic Designer March CTP
  57. WPF Bloggers Updated
  58. Windows Live Becomes Windows Live Extreme
  59. ASP.NET, Atlas, Windows Forms and WPF
  60. WPF Major Breaking Changes in Feb 2006 CTP
  61. WinFX Runtime Components (February CTP) Now Live
  62. First Steps to Learning WPF
  63. WPF "15 Puzzle" Sample Application
  64. Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 Preview for Windows XP
  65. Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") Is Here!!!
  66. Twelve New WPF Hands-On Labs Available for Download
  67. MIX: Will This Be The Next PDC?
  68. Finally, Success with an Xbox 360
  69. Microsoft's Photography Site
  70. What's New in "Cider" January CTP?
  71. Other Bits and Pieces Relating to WinFX Jan CTP
  72. WinFX Runtime Components January CTP Published!

2005 67

  1. The Original Xbox isn't Dead Yet
  2. Installing the WinFX Runtime Components on a x64 Machine
  3. A Couple of Avalon Express (XBAP) Demos
  4. Windows Live Custom Domains
  5. The Difference between CTPs and Beta Releases
  6. WinFX Runtime Components November CTP Now Released!
  7. WinFX and the Visual Studio 2005 Final (RTM) Release
  8. Dear, Oh Dear...
  9. PDC05: Breakout Videos Now Online
  10. Windows Presentation Foundation PDC Hands-On Labs Now Online
  11. End of an Era for the ISA Bus
  12. 3D Models with Avalon using ZAM 3D
  13. Be an Avalon Test Pilot and Take Your Apps Around the World
  14. Xbox 360 Loses... er... Wins... er...
  15. XAML and the Art of Programming
  16. Avalon Bloggers @ Microsoft
  17. Windows Presentation Foundation Blogs
  18. Build an Avalon Web Browser Application
  19. PDC05: Product Key Problems - Redux
  20. Office 2003 Service Pack 2 is Here...
  21. Found A Good Photo Sharing Site
  22. A Fresh New Coat of Paint.NET
  23. Looking for a Good Photo Sharing Site
  24. Building MSN Virtual Earth into Your Applications
  25. Loose XAML is Back!
  26. What's The Point of XAML?
  27. Community Server Comments
  28. Starting off with the Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon")
  29. PDC05: Product Key Problems
  30. PDC05: A Post-Conference FAQ
  31. Cleaning Up Old Avalon Installs
  32. PDC05: Which Version of .NET Framework Beta 2 Should I Run?
  33. PDC05: Tips and Tricks for the PDC Bits
  34. PDC05: Expression Suite Announced
  35. PDC05: Build a Gadget for Windows Vista
  36. PDC05: What Kind of Application Can You Build with Avalon?
  37. PDC05: An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") - Now Live
  38. Learn Avalon by Watching a Channel 9 Screencast!
  39. Challenges in Avalon
  40. Running Avalon on Laptops
  41. Export Vector Graphics to XAML with Acrylic Aug CTP
  42. Synchronizing Documents Across Multiple Computers
  43. Great .NET Smart Client Blog Aggregator with BSD License
  44. New Windows XP Theme (Energy Blue) Available...
  45. Write Avalon Apps in Pascal!
  46. Two Really Cool Avalon 3D Applets
  47. Deploying Avalon Express Applications
  48. Atlas: Building AJAX with ASP.NET
  49. Got 10 Minutes to Learn Something New?
  50. How to Install Team Foundation Server
  51. Acrylic is Available for Download...
  52. Look What We Added to IE...
  53. An Avalon Team Blog Directory
  54. Free Music from the BBC and Magnatune
  55. It's the Season of PDC
  56. And you thought C# was COOL...
  57. InfoCard: A New WinFX API
  58. A Hitchhiker's Guide to Avalon Beta 1 RC - Now on MSDN
  59. Why Do I Get an Error Complaining about UICulture?
  60. Some Cool Avalon Apps
  61. Come and Work With Me!
  62. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Avalon Beta 1 RC
  63. Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC Released to Web
  64. Grab Yourself a .NET Nugget
  65. Serenity and the Art of Microsoft Serfdom
  66. Avalon Community Technology Preview Now Available to non-MSDN Subscribers
  67. Embedding Resources within an Avalon Application

2004 103

  1. Thanksgiving
  2. Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup
  3. Avalon 3D Class Changes Between WinHEC and Nov CTP
  4. Getting to Know Avalon - A Guided Tour of the SDK
  5. Calling Win32 APIs from the .NET Framework - The Easy Way
  6. Differentiating Avalon, XAML and Aero
  7. And So It Starts Again... Avalon Community Technical Preview Released
  8. Letter from America - Part II
  9. All Quiet on the Longhorn Front?
  10. Esoteric .NET Language Challenge
  11. All Aboard the Developer "Express"
  12. I'm Leaving Microsoft...
  13. Three Weeks in Review
  14. Monitoring Performance of SQL Server 2005 Objects
  15. Building My First Longhorn Sidebar Tile
  16. Installing Whidbey Beta 1 and Yukon Beta 2 Together
  17. Administering and Managing .NET Framework Applications: Webcasts Online...
  18. Migrating from Windows Forms 1.x to Windows Forms 2.0
  19. Integrating Corporate Data into Office with Information Bridge Framework
  20. MSBuild: The New Build System for Visual Studio 2005 and Longhorn
  21. Building Advanced Reports with the Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services
  22. Solving Business Problems with SQL Server 2005 Data Mining
  23. Building Advanced Reporting Services Applications
  24. Another Week, Another Conference
  25. Visual Studio 2005: Two Events at Microsoft UK
  26. TechEd Europe: Wrapup
  27. TechEd Europe: Top Scoring Sessions for Today
  28. Visual Studio and SQL Server Express Editions Announced
  29. TechEd Europe: Keynote
  30. TechEd Europe: Pre-Conference Sessions
  31. SQL Server: The 64-bit Sweet Spot
  32. TechEd Europe T-1 Day!
  33. SQL Server CLR Hosting
  34. TechEd Europe T-3 Days
  35. Strewth, He's Mad as a Cut Snake!
  36. FotoVision: New End-to-End .NET Smart Client Sample Application
  37. TechEd Europe Session Database
  38. Friday Fun - What Happens When Kids Misbehave...
  39. Do You Run a Microsoft-Orientated Community Site?
  40. .NET Blogging in the UK
  41. Free Vector-based Illustration Tool from Microsoft
  42. TechEd Europe T-21 Days!
  43. Announcing a New Font - Innate
  44. Windows Media Player 10 Tech Beta Available
  45. DAT318: SQL Server 2005 CLR Integration
  46. DEV410: Inside the ASP.NET Runtime
  47. DAT329: SQL Server 2005 Web Services
  48. DEV200: Visual Studio Team System
  49. BPR247: OneNote 2003
  50. DEV310: Top 10 Tricks for a Killer ASP.NET Web Application
  51. CTS200: Service Orientation and the Developer
  52. Steve McConnell on Advancements in Software Construction
  53. Mobile Devices Must Attend Session @ TechEd Europe
  54. A Brief Introduction to ClickOnce
  55. InfoPath 2003 SP1 Samples and Articles
  56. Looking for a Room Share at TechEd Europe?
  57. Heading Off to TechEd US
  58. An Xbox Box?
  59. Keeping ActiveSync Up To Date
  60. A New Arrival!
  61. Longhorn WinHEC Build: What's New?
  62. New Features in Windows XP Service Pack 2: Again!
  63. What's New in ADO.NET 2.0?
  64. Virtual PC in Europe - Fix for the Dreaded Sticky Ctrl Key Bug!
  65. TechEd Europe Birds of a Feather
  66. Making Progress in Security? A Personal View
  67. TechEd Europe Data Track: Request for Peer Feedback
  68. TechEd Europe 2004 Data Track
  69. Sun / Microsoft Settlement Webcast Live
  70. How do you convert a string into an enum?
  71. Digging inside Windows Media Files
  72. Ten Reasons for Developers to Attend TechEd Europe 2004
  73. Extracting Metadata from Windows Media files
  74. Passing Strings to Unmanaged Code
  75. Getting a Job with Microsoft
  76. How do Microsoft Email Addresses Work?
  77. Presentations: Balancing Slides and Code
  78. Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC1 Now Available
  79. Microsoft Folklore
  80. Details of Changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2
  81. Worldwide Media Exchange
  82. SPOT Watches
  83. How to Write a Compelling Mission Statement...
  84. Life on Mars?
  85. DevWeek 2004 - An Independent Keynote
  86. Free .NET Code Coverage Tool
  87. Using Terminal Services for Multi-User VS.NET
  88. .NET for IT Professionals
  89. MSDN Flash: Improving .NET Code Quality
  90. The "All New" MSDN Flash Is Here
  91. OneNote Birth and Adolescence
  92. Free Books and Training for Smart Client ISVs
  93. UK .NET Bloggers
  94. UK .NET Bloggers
  95. TechEd Europe Call for Papers
  96. Would You Swap Your Boss?
  97. Yukon Engine: CLR Integration IV
  98. The Return of the King - Alternative Version
  99. On the Move...
  100. .NET Framework Class Library Posters
  101. Another Excel Feature I Missed...
  102. Hands On With Longhorn
  103. Happy New Year 2004!

2003 93

  1. Yukon Engine: CLR Integration III
  2. Yukon Engine: CLR Integration II
  3. The Exception Back Stop
  4. Epiphany in Advent
  5. Yukon Engine: CLR Integration I
  6. Write Console Apps with .NET
  7. Yukon Engine: Slides and Demos
  8. Reflections on the UK Developer Briefing
  9. XAML Patch for Visual Studio "Whidbey"
  10. Limiting Callers to a .NET Assembly
  11. Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server
  12. .NET User Groups in the UK
  13. Using DTS and Analysis Services to Analyse Blog Logs
  14. PDC Sessions Now Available Online
  15. ASP.NET Session State: Architectural and Performance Considerations
  16. Process Explorer 8.10
  17. Hear Benjamin Mitchell on WSE and Indigo
  18. How Far Can You Go With XAML?
  19. UK Developer Briefing
  20. SECSYM: Security Symposium VI
  21. SECSYM: Security Symposium V
  22. SECSYM: Security Symposium IV
  23. SECSYM: Security Symposium III
  24. SECSYM: Security Symposium II
  25. SECSYM: Security Symposium I
  26. Reflections on Wednesday
  27. ARC413: Whidbey CLR Internals
  28. CLI326: WinFS - File System Integration and Security
  29. Rashid: Microsoft Research
  30. Reflections on Tuesday
  31. You Sexy Thing
  32. WSV200: ASP.NET 2.0 Overview
  33. TLS320: C# Language Enhancements
  34. CLI201: WinFS Overview
  35. WSV301: Indigo Fundamentals
  36. EricR: Visual Studio "Whidbey"
  37. Reflections on Monday
  38. WSV201: Indigo Overview
  39. CLI300: Building Avalon Apps with Controls and Dialogs
  40. CLI200: Avalon Overview
  41. JimAll: One Lap Around Longhorn
  42. Blog Mode On
  43. It's All So Quiet...
  44. Whidbey C# Language Spec Online
  45. Improving Performance of WinForms Apps
  46. The Best .NET Books - Again!
  47. Producing XHTML with ASP.NET
  48. Ingo, I Agree...
  49. Internal Preparations for the PDC
  50. ASP to ASP.NET Migration Tool
  51. ActiveSync 3.7.1 Released
  52. Five .NET Secrets
  53. The Global Rich List
  54. Virtual PC Addendum
  55. Being Don Malkovich
  56. Using Virtual PC for Development
  57. Trying to "Do the Right Thing"
  58. PDC 1998: Some Reminiscences
  59. Bloggers Block...
  60. The Only .NET Blog Entry You'll Ever Need to Read
  61. Is the Business Tier Dead?
  62. You Couldn't Before, But Now Yukon...
  63. .NET and J2EE Interoperability
  64. Ahoy There, Shipmates!
  65. Snippet Manager Extended
  66. Blog Log Analysis
  67. Dream .NET Bookshelf
  68. VBUG, Yukon and Vault
  69. Office 2003 Now Available on MSDN
  70. Great CDs of our Time
  71. A Strike Back Against Telemarketers
  72. Framework BCL Richness
  73. Mono Update
  74. Another Critical Security Update
  75. Debugging DataSets
  76. Snippet Compiler
  77. Taking Time Out...
  78. New C# Features in Whidbey
  79. .NET Framework Overview
  80. ASP.NET Mobile Device Update 3 Released
  81. Mind Mapping
  82. The daVinci Diagram Surface Could Not Be Found - A Lesson in Stress Management
  83. Primate Programming: An Evolutionary Approach
  84. What's New in Whidbey?
  85. New "First Class" .NET Language: COBOL!
  86. Red v. Blue: A Halo Parody
  87. Developing Side-by-Side Assemblies with .NET
  88. Microsoft Reader Free eBooks
  89. Late Junction
  90. UK Developer Events Planning
  91. Web Service Enhancements 2.0 Tech Preview
  92. Musical Scales with (n != 12) Notes
  93. A Brief Introduction