This time, from PocketPC. [Author: Dave Stewart]

We are really happy we are now getting feedback directly from users . Today we reviewed first 10 suggestions and bugs filed by customers on MSDN Feedback site against Visual Web Developer. Out of 10 three were filed as bugs and seven as suggestions. Out...

Steve Makofsky links to some new data visualization components from MS Research. I told Duncan about this today and he started to drool... MSR Data Visualization Components Wow - looks like Microsoft Research has released a set of Data...

For a long time, sending a bug or suggestion to Microsoft has been a bit of a challenge. For the .NET Beta, we've introduced the MSDN Feedback Center . I will ask you to bear with us, as we're just getting up to speed on this. You may get answers that...

Defining and Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005 Harish Kantamneni Visual Basic Team Microsoft Corporation July 2004 Summary : Provides an overview of the generics feature in Visual Basic 2005, and explains the basic concepts involved in defining and...

Introduction Drop-down menus in Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enable actions that relate to a specific document in a document library to be viewed and invoked. This article shows how these document context menus can...

Manual setup instructions to download/install the individual packages for Express Products will soon be available. <link> We would like to understand the reason you need to go through the manual steps to install our products. Please reply to...

eating some dog food and posting on my smart phone :-) [Author: Dave Stewart]

I'd love to see a subscription-based service that allows me to dump a bunch of images, via a kiosk, to an Internet site, where I can download them when I get home. Starbuck's or McDonald's should do this. A quick pit stop that would allow me to save some...

When I was in college, I had a part-time job as a sys-admin for our college's IBM 4361 mainframe . Man, did I love that box. We ran IBM's VM operating system on the thing, and it was connected to the ARPANET. IBM's VM was wonderful - you could bring up...

Scenario: The OEM runs hopper, our test app to verify MTTF. The app simulates a user using the device, at a much faster rate. Hopper will uncover deadlocks, Data Aborts, Prefetch Aborts, and other nasty things. When they hit an abort, the OEM may need...

After installing any component of SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 or Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 on a computer with an existing installation of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, Reporting Services may fail with the following error: The report server cannot...