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Programming Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Interview (Premium)

Readers will remember Todd Wanke as the guy who ran Microsoft's War Room for Windows…

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Programming Windows: Bob Muglia Interview (Premium)

In May 2004, I interviewed Bob Muglia, Microsoft senior vice president of the Windows Server…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Themes Bug (Premium)

Here’s another quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly identify…

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Programming Windows: Springboard (Premium)

With Longhorn delayed yet again, Microsoft started working to bring some of its core security…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Maximize Bug (Premium)

Here’s a quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly remember…

Microsoft Releases .NET 7 Preview 1

Microsoft today announced the first preview release of .NET 7, along with previews of ASP.NET…

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Programming Windows: Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Interview (Premium)

In January 2004, Joseph Jones and I interviewed Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek, two of…

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Programming Windows: It’s Not Going to Work (Premium)

In 2004, Microsoft finally realized the inevitable: Longhorn wasn’t just running late, it was impossible.…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fork Me (Premium)

When I made the C#/Windows Forms version of .NETpad available on GitHub in late January,…

Microsoft to Drop Support for Older Visual Studio Versions

Microsoft wants users of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio 2019 to…

Microsoft Celebrates 20 Years of .NET

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched the first version of .NET alongside Visual Studio .NET,…

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Programming Windows: Hello, WinFX, Avalon, and XAML (Premium)

For developers, it was a unique pleasure seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson write Longhorn…

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Programming Windows: A Lap Around Longhorn (Premium)

Jim Allchin’s PDC 2003 keynote, called “a lap around Longhorn,” focused on the nuts and…

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Programming Windows: Geeks Bearing Gifts (Premium)

At 8:00 am on October 27, 2003, Microsoft opened the doors to Hall A at…

Windows App SDK 1.1 Due By Mid-2022

Microsoft quietly revealed that it will ship Windows App SDK 1.1 by mid-year, with multi-window…

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Programming Windows: More Alpha Tales (Premium)

The Longhorn leaks and rumors continued into 2003. But the longer the schedule was pushed…

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