July 2005 - Posts

posted Friday, July 29, 2005 3:09 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Web Developer Event Follow Up: Music Service ASMX V2.0 and WSE 3.0 Demo

We did an event a couple of days ago which linked together a few different UI topics, namely; ASP.NET Web Forms V2.0 Windows Forms V2.0 and Smart Client "Avalon" Introduction (it was still called "Avalon" when we did the session, Read More
posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:37 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

ASP.NET 2.0 Migration Centre on MSDN

There's a new MSDN centre gone up around migrating to ASP.NET 2.0.   The link's here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/migration/upgrade/default.aspx   The first document (http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/migration/upgrade/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/upgradingaspnet.asp) Read More
posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:32 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Windows Vista and WinFX Beta 1 Available

Blimey. An interesting day!   We did a Microsoft event down in Reading today where we spent some time talking about user interface technologies (Web Forms 2.0, Windows Forms 2.0) and introduced "Avalon" with some demos that seemed to go down fairly well Read More
posted Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:02 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 3.0: Tracing tool updated

Once again, I've updated my tracing tool for the WSE 3.0 Preview. The bits are at http://mtaulty.com/downloads/Wse3Trace.zip   It's a change for the installation program - from what I can see the previous version I had published didn't put things Read More
posted Friday, July 22, 2005 3:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Deploying Avalon Express (XAPP) Applications with the WinFX CTP B1 RC

I'm sure this is a FAQ but I didn't find it.   If you want to deploy Avalon Express applications from your IIS server then you need to register a bunch of MIME types.   There's a script in the WinFX B1 RC documentation that you can run to get this done. Read More
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:24 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Microsoft UK SmartClient Competition

The winners of the Microsoft UK SmartClient competition have been announced.   I played a minor part in setting this up and working out how the questions should work and so on so I'm glad to see that it's been successful and that we gave some things Read More
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:06 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

VS 2005, Indigo and "Add Web Reference"

This is more than likely a FAQ but I found it helpful yesterday and so I post it here.   If you (like me) have installed Visual Studio 2005 onto your machine alongside the WinFX Beta 1 Release Candidate then you'll probably find that when you go to do Read More
posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:33 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Avalon: Exporting XAML from Adobe Illustrator

There's a blog post over here (http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2005/07/12/438178.aspx ) from Mike Swanson about a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that allows you to export XAML - it's a freebie unsupported download but it looks pretty cool.   Also Read More
posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:30 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 3.0 Tracing Tool: Updated

I updated my tracing tool for WSE3.0 (http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2005/06/27/2849.aspx).   I noticed that the installer treated it as a later version of the 2.0 tool rather than a different tool and so wouldn't side-by-side install them. That's been Read More
posted Friday, July 08, 2005 4:22 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Avalon: Playing around with animations and rectangles to make MCE buttons

I've been having a brief play with Avalon and XAML and the first thing I really tried to make (once I got past "hello world") was a button that looked like those ones on the Media Center 2005 screen - the green "glowing" buttons Read More
posted Friday, July 08, 2005 2:39 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Disabling Comments

Sorry but I've disabled comments on this site from this morning. If you want to comment then just put it on your own site and link back to me. If you want to contact me then just mail me using the form here.   Getting rid of the blog spam (even with a Read More
posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:27 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 2.0: Intermediaries with SoapSender/SoapReceiver

I updated my little WSE "routing" (I use quotes because it doesn't really work properly) experiment in order to be based on SoapSender and SoapReceiver rather than being based on SoapClient and SoapService with an explicit message exchange between the Read More
posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:28 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 2.0: Giving up on playing around with intermediaries

I've been bogged down in WSE and SOAP messaging. It came about as part of playing with the WSE-RM sample (WSE 3.0 Preview- More playing with intermediaries) and I'm afraid it comes down to a lack of understanding on my part. I've been trying to fathom Read More
posted Monday, July 04, 2005 4:28 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 3.0 Preview: More playing with intermediaries

Following up on this post WSE 3.0 Preview- Playing with intermediaries I took this a little bit further. In my previous post I'd done something to try and route SOAP messages from a photo sender to a photo receiver through as many intermediaries as Read More
posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:42 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Woops

I go and download the WS-ReliableMessaging sample for WSE 3.0 and find it has almost exactly the same "break up the photograph" sample as I just spent time creating :-)   There's slight differences but the functionality looks to be the same - that'll Read More
posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:31 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

WSE 3.0 Preview: Playing with intermediaries

I wanted to play around with the new sample for reliable messaging on WSE3.0 and so I thought I’d build some code that I can use to play with it.  To test reliable messaging you really need some kind of SOAP intermediary (otherwise its harder Read More