MSDN Magazine [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

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MSDN Magazine is a developers' guide to Microsoft tools, development environments, and technologies for Windows and the Web. It provides technical experts with real-world solutions, business applications for new technology, and first looks at the latest products.

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MSDN Magazine is a developers' guide to Microsoft tools, development environments, and technologies for Windows and the Web. It provides technical experts with real-world solutions, business applications for new technology, and first looks at the latest products.

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• Format: Magazine
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Publisher: Cmp Media Llc
• ASIN: B00006LKN3
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading for any MS Developer, July 11, 2003

By	Tony (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

Great magazine. Covers the full range of .NET technologies. Every issue is packed with windows, web, and xml development articles plus industry news and a lot more. High recomended.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Serious MS developers need this, September 29, 2005

By	wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

People building serious MS apps, the kind where you have to figure out just what "volatile" really means, must subscribe. This is the map to the world they live in. There are lots of ads, covering just about every add-in, add-on, API, component, and service you can imagine, plus some. Do you need to know the difference between clusters, multiprocessor board, multicore, hardware multithreading, and application multithreading? You need this. UI, I18N, .NET, COM compatibility - sooner or later, it's all here.

However, not all of us work as MS app developers. If you live outside that world, you'll find just about nothing of interest.

//wiredweird

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for all Microsoft developers -- Even better for emerging platforms, September 23, 2007

By	.NET Code Monkey - See all my reviews

I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine for years now, and it really is quite good. Unlike most Microsoft publications, it is not "sales-pitchy" in that the articles are usually applicable to resolving common development issues, and there is very little subliminal verbiage geared toward buying other MS products that you don't need.

One thing to note is that they are very big on emerging technologies. This has its pros and cons...for example, they had tons of Visual Studio 2005 articles well before it was released, so it's nice to know how to use what's coming down the pike. And now (Sept 2007), there are a lot of Orcas (VS 2008) articles.

However, there is usually a large gap between when a platform is released and when you actually use it...so those articles most likely won't be useful to you until you actually have a reason to use it (i.e. when you employer adopts it). I often find that the most useful articles were written a year or two before I need it.

Another great thing about MSDN is that the entire magazine is available on their site for free, so you don't have to fork over the money if you don't want to. I just subscribe to give my eyes a break from the monitor once in a while.