Architecture

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch,…

The Fault Tolerant Heap (FTH) is a subsystem of Windows 7 responsible for monitoring application crashes and autonomously applying mitigations to prevent future crashes on a per application basis. For the vast majority of users, FTH will function with no need for intervention or change on their…

You first learned about Rx on C9. We've led you through the basic concepts of reactive programming to the deep mathematical foundation behind Rx (interface duality). By now, you should understand that IObservable is the dual of IEnumerable. Today, you will learn some new…

With Windows Web Services, you can create applications that communicate easily with a local computer or a remote Web service. Windows Web Services is a native-code implementation of SOAP and provides core network communication by supporting a broad set of the Web services (WS) family of…

  The Singularity project (an OS written in managed code used for research purposes) has provided several very useful research results and opened new avenues for exploration in operating system design. Recently, MSR released a paper covering an operating system research project that…

Brian Groth and Mark Berman can be found in building 25. They work across the hall from a datacenter (not everyone at Microsoft has so much hardware within arms reach). What caught our attention about Brian and Mark? Well, Brian sent us an email which we'll just print here: I work in the…

For eighteen years at Microsoft, Rico Mariani’s contagious enthusiasm for technology has inspired countless others to write better and faster code. Most people inside Microsoft know this software architect from his frequent postings on the internal performance tuning alias, and other people  know…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Steve and Wade explain the application architecture of their latest creation—the Apathy Button. Like many other popular buttons on the Internet,…

Windows 7 adopts the successful Office 2007 Ribbon user interface concept. The Windows 7 Ribbon command infrastructure enables developers to quickly and easily create rich ribbon experiences in their applications. Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Ribbon product…

EvNet, which is the codebase that powers all of our channels, was written from the ground up. How is the codebase designed? What's the architecure? What did each developer work on? What were some of the challenges? Who are these dev geniuses, anyway? This is part two of the great…