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In the past several posts, we have covered user interface (UI) design concepts such as typography, visual cues, and design thinking. In today’s blog, however, we will look at a topic that has much less to do with solving UI design problems and much more to do with solving user experience (UX)...

I've been blogging about Visual Studio Extensions here for about, well, forever. During that time I've found a few that I can't live without. A few that I always have to find and install again, and again on every new dev machine. Visual Studio 2013 introduced roaming settings (Synchronized...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Windows 10 Launch, Link Removed [Terry Myerson] Link Removed Link Removed [Dan Rayburn] Link Removed Downloads and tools for Windows 10 Link Removed Link Removed [Soma] Link Removed Opening...

In this episode of Data Exposed, Scott Welcomes Ken Van Hyning, a Principle Software Engineer in the SQL Server team. Today Ken introduces us to the SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor, code named DBA Workbench, a tool that consists of a suite of advisors for upgrading to SQL Server 2016. Ken begins...

Dear Forums, I need help with solving my BSoD issue. Since awhile I've started getting BSoDs. The thing is I can't seem to figure out what's exactly causing it. It once happened when I left my laptop on to download things. The BSoD also occured when I was starting up a game I was about to...

When I use my mouse within some applications to perform a text-based Paste operation, the contents of the clipboard do not get copied into the desired location¹; before posting this I verified A) that the clipboard does have the data that's supposed to be there, and B) that the Paste operation...

Okay so as an outsider to windows it seems that Microsofts move to come out with a new version of windows is both a laugh riot and a sad sight. I think Microsoft done goofed once more and maybe its time to see how it can undo its mistake. The key to the failure is Microsofts need to do a mobile...

Whats the opinions of what and how should we post the results? Some post the output of winDB some clip the date, uptime, and other relevant info, some dont include anything. Just curious. SS thanks for the links and the group NICE

Susan shares her insights on how to do quick and dirty UX testing to help your application be more successful. Susan (who works with great people on the UX team, including Corrina Black, Tsitsi Gora, and Arturo Toledo) has a lot of experience working on usability and spends a lot of time working...

On start-up, my computer says that one of your disks needs to be checked for consitency. But when it tries to 'check disk' it says it can't because of error:xxxxxxxxx (was too quick to catch the numbers). So I tried to check disk through control panel and it says that it can't because disk is...

I really like dragging to maximize and dragging to tile. To be consistent, dragging to taskbar should minimize...

Is it my imagination, or are many people describing better/worse clean installs? Shouldn't the installs be consistant? Provided they are using the same DVD to do them, and didn't re-download it?