Learn how to modify your applications to ensure they work seamlessly with the new User Account Control feature of Windows Vista....   Read Article.

Credential providers in Windows Vista allow you to customize the logon experience and integrate the authentication methods that best meet your organization's needs. With this article, learn how to write your own....   Read Article.

This month we welcome Charles Petzold back to MSDN Magazine with his first Foundations column on building custom templates for WPF controls....   Read Article.

What's new in Unicode 5.0? What sort of support does Windows Vista have for it? Find out here....   Read Article.

The next version of the Windows operating system (codenamed 'Longhorn') has a new storage subsystem (codenamed 'WinFS'). In this article, we will try to understand the need for 'WinFS'; define 'WinFS', its type system, and its data model; and learn how to write applications that take advantage of 'WinFS'....   Read Article.

Those of you who regularly read my editorials will already be familiar with my Hamurabi.NET project. For those of you who aren't, at the start of this year I began fooling around with a modern-day .NET implementation of the classic mainframe computer game Hamurabi....   Read Article.

My adventure with Windows Vista began with multiple attempts to install the operating system itself on various computers in my possession. First, I had hoped to install it as an upgrade for Windows XP that is running on my actual work computer. I wouldn't ordinarily recommend this, but I've been given a real desktop computer to use at my current...   Read Article.

Provides information to help application developers ensure that their applications are User Account Control (UAC) compatible....   Read Article.

The Windows Display Driver Model is a new display driver architecture supported in Windows Vista. This display architecture is an overhaul of the Windows XP-based display architecture and gives users a better performing, more reliable desktop experience....   Read Article.

Windows Vista includes a number of improvements to Direct3D including Direct3D 10, Direct 9Ex, and the Vista Display Driver Model. This article summarizes some of these new features....   Read Article.

The Windows Display Driver Model is a new display driver architecture supported in Windows Vista. This display architecture is an overhaul of the Windows XP-based display architecture and gives users a better performing, more reliable desktop experience....   Read Article.

Describes how to leverage new Windows Vista cancellation support to improve the robustness of Windows applications. This enables improved customer experience through direct cancellation of and recovery from slow or blocked file input/output....   Read Article.

The DHTML Editing Control will not be included in Windows Vista. Web pages and Windows applications that use the control must be modified to continue to provide a WYSIWYG HTML Editor....   Read Article.

Introduces Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and describes its various features; clarifies the problems that WPF technology addresses, and then surveys the solutions that WPF provides....   Read Article.

Walter VonKoch discusses the RSS reading experience in Internet Explorer 7 and the RSS platform. He demonstrates how Web site publishers can enable feed discovery, feeds, and Simple List Extensions (SLE)....   Read Article.

DevReadiness.org is the developer community site to help you get your applications ready for Windows Vista. Learn how to test your application for Windows Vista, and find simple remedies to fix the most common issues....   Read Article.

In software development, visual aspects are always the first thing noticed. Therefore, this months Windows Vista theme explores how to create those jazzy interfaces that separate your application from the herd. And remember neatness counts!...   Read Article.

In this Channel9 interview, hear from an architect on the Windows Vista kernel team what sorts of things happen deep inside Windows from a security perspective. You'll learn more about the innards of Windows than you might expect from this conversation....   Read Article.

Ever wonder what InfoCard is all about? Nigel Watling (Technical Evangelist) and Andy Harjanto (Program Manager) explain it in this Channel 9 video with a lot of time spent on the whiteboard....   Read Article.

In Building 50 on the Microsoft Campus, there's a secret room that's never been shown in public before. Learn about this room as a Media Center PM shows you how to build your first Media Center application....   Read Article.