April 2005 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

VS 2005 Filtering IntelliSense by Code Permissions

Wow. I wasn't aware of this feature in VS 2005 and it sounds very useful to me.

Published Fri, Apr 29 2005 9:10 AM by mtaulty

Mixing and matching .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0

This question http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2004/07/14/181938.aspx about whether a .NET Framework 1.1 application can host a .NET Framework V2.0 assembly (and vice versa) is going to get asked a lot as we head towards the .NET Framework 2.0 release...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 7:22 AM by mtaulty

Media Center Fun & Games

I got home late last night to find the TV in disarray. The Media Center was displaying an error saying something like; "DVD Decoder Error. The DVD decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Please re-start Media Center or the computer or both"...

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 4:35 AM by mtaulty

Hack Attack

This http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22838 sounds like an urban myth to me but it's a good enough one that it made me laugh.

Published Wed, Apr 27 2005 2:09 PM by mtaulty

UK .NET Community Developer Day

Another link to publicise the UK Developer Day which is an event we're hosting at the Microsoft Campus on Saturday (!) the 14th May. It's an entirely community led event and the details of it are very well laid out on the website that you can get to by following...

Published Wed, Apr 27 2005 2:06 PM by mtaulty

4 into 1 does go

After dual-core, comes quad-core. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22822

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 8:20 AM by mtaulty

InPhase Storage Media

Ok, so I don't understand it properly but if this is correct then InPhase http://www.inphase-technologies.com/ has made a big breakthrough on recording media. These guys are hoping to get 300GB on a single storage disk from 2006 and trying to get up to 1.6TB...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2005 8:31 AM by mtaulty

Google Maps updated to include the UK

The Google maps http://maps.google.co.uk/ service has been extended to include the UK. I've typed in some postcodes and it seems to work pretty well. I've asked it for driving directions and that looks pretty good too and zooming in and scrolling works pretty...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2005 9:31 AM by mtaulty

Yet Another C-Sharp Comment (YACC)

There's a lot of stuff flying around about VB and .NET at the moment and a new one came across my mailbox today: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CSharpVersusVB.asp This article argues that essentially there's a "VB Culture" and a "C# Culture"...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2005 3:21 AM by mtaulty

Indigo: Layered Channels and Channel Factories

I've been trying to experiment a little bit with the "layered" approach to channels in Indigo. Once again, this is just my playing around so take with a large pinch of salt and you certainly don't have to build apps this way in Indigo (the higher...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 3:35 PM by mtaulty

Post Events from the UK Technical Roadshow

If you attended the Microsoft Technical Roadshow in Edinburgh last week then the materials from the event have been posted here; http://www.microsoft.com/uk/resources/techroadshow/postevents/default.mspx If you didn't then maybe I'll see you at Birmingham,...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 2:09 PM by mtaulty

Indigo: Compelling part of WinFX?

Just pointing out this posting: Is Indigo compelling or boring It's an interesting one and I think I'm pretty much in agreement. My dream around Indigo from what I've seen so far is that "down the line" the distributed technology decision for the...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 1:49 PM by mtaulty

Windows Forms Applications & Memory Usage

This is probably a daft post but I've been thinking about this post over here http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/04/coming-net-world-im-scared.html which looks at a comparison between a simple .NET Windows Forms applications and a comparable native application...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 11:03 AM by mtaulty

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is available for download. See here http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/ if you're an MSDN subscriber and want a full edition (note that you can get Standard, Professional and Team System editions this time around). See here http...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2005 1:40 AM by mtaulty

PDC 2005: What do you want to see there?

Microsoft's big developer shinding, the Professional Developer's Conference is 4-5 months away (check out the site here http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/ - it even has its own little RSS Feed to subscribe to). If you're interested in influencing what happens...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 4:55 AM by mtaulty

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