I’ve been to every U2 concert for the past 18 years, including concerts in Sydney, London, Dublin and perhaps the best of them all, Sloane Castle. So it disappoints me immensely that I’m unable to see them this time around in what looks like their best...

On Monday, we released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to the web!  Aside from all the great new features and awesome UI, one thing I love in particular is the new branding, which you can see in the logos below.     These...

I recently installed Windows 7 Beta on my laptop, and whilst trying to run Office Communicator 2007 today I received this message:   The event log showed this: Faulting application name: communicator.exe, version: 2.0.6362.76, time stamp: 0x4884242d...

Today I was trying to load a LINQ to SQL data context in my project and every time I double-clicked to open it I received this message: After trying to sort it out for a while I finally deleted the values under this registry subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER...

The Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 update package went live on Microsoft Downloads. You can check out the release notes for details, although the team blog and the community site also have plenty of details. Power Pack 1 fixes the data corruption bug...

In case you missed it - Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is now available for download. To coincide with this release and demonstrate the power of Silverlight, a colleague on my team has written a great game called 'Buddy Knavery - Episode 1 : The Killer Riffs' ...

I recently had a need to access the Profile object from a web service which I was calling from a JavaScript method using ASP.NET AJAX. Looking around on the web people said it couldn't be done. Well never one to take no for an answer, I managed to play...

A nice article posted by Jeff on using predicates to search generic lists. This can also be applied to other methods, such as Exists and TrueForAll etc. If your experience is anything like mine, you probably have been using generics like crazy since...

My name is Jason Ward and I'm a web developer working in the Developer Division at Microsoft. Whilst my team maintains it's own blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/dditweb/ , I thought it might be useful to maintain a separate blog for things I'm interested...