MSDN Magazine April 2007

Windows CardSpace replaces traditional authentication with a more consistent and streamlined login process and improves trust between end-users, applications and services. Michèle Leroux Bustamante explains.

In this article we introduce the Desktop Window Manager, the new interface that manages how windows are rendered on the Windows Vista desktop.

XmlLite provides a high-performance, low-overhead XML reader and writer geared for applications written in native C++. Learn more here.

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) provides general-purpose, high-speed tracing of events raised by both user-mode applications and kernel-mode device drivers. Learn how ETW can improve your development and debugging work.

Web standards are about much more than closing HTML tags. They are a critical factor in how well software components can be used in future contexts.

Josh Trupin discusses MSDN Magazine's awards from the Society for Technical Communication

The WiX toolset’s use of a command-line environment allows for integration with automated build processes. The Toolbox column explains.

The next version of Visual Studio currently code-named “Orcas”supports advanced encryption algorithms, Elliptic curve cryptography, big integers, and other security enhancements. The CLR team explains.

What to do when you need to disable triggers and constraints to perform data synchronization and other tasks with an offline database.

In this column, Brian Randell explains how to build a simple Work Item explorer and demonstrates the core operations needed to add work item support when building your own add-in.

There are a number of techniques that allow you to modify a running ASP.NET page without touching its source code. Dino discusses some this month.

When something goes wrong, a manageable application will tell the administrator how to fix the problem. The Windows Event Log can provide the necessary information.

This month Aaron Skonnard highlights some of the key messaging features behind the sophisticated XML-based messaging framework of Windows Communication Foundation.

ASP.NET 2.0 development is the easiest ASP development yet. Fritz Onion reveals why.

This month Charles Petzold focuses on a very important part of the Viewport3D assemblage—the MeshGeometry3D class that defines the geometry of a 3D object in Windows Communication Foundation.

This month Stephen Toub answers questions pertaining to the Windows Vista Restart Manager API and generic method compilation.

In this installment, Stanley Lippman continues to port his ISO-C++ Text Query Language application to the Microsoft .NET Framework and C++/CLI.

Josh Trupin introduces geopegging--a special technique for storing GPS location data in a JPG.