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August 2005 - Posts

Web Services Enhancements 3.0: Beta Available

Doing web services on Whidbey with WSE 3.0? The beta is now available for download . Time to update my CTP build to the beta I think - I hope it has more docs than the CTP :-) Read More...
Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 8:43 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Attending the PDC from the UK? Make friends and play "UK PDC Attendee Bingo!" :-)

I've hacked up a Wiki for folks from the UK who are attending the PDC in 2 weeks time to register their details. Here's the link http://mtaulty.com/FlexWiki Read More...
Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 6:05 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Do I want the job of "Distributed Transaction Co-ordinator"?

I've recently booked a short break away (I need to stop staring at my laptop screen) and I had the entertaining job of sitting with 2 web browser windows on my screen whilst I tried to do the "old chestnut" of booking a flight and a hotel at the same Read More...
Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 2:08 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

PowerCompress software for Windows Media Center Edition

I spotted this link ( http://powercompress.com/index.asp ) to PowerCompress and their software that claims great compression rates for Media Center 2005. It sounds pretty impressive - I guess it's not too hard to compress the DVR-MS format as it seems Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 21, 2005 4:40 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

UK MSDN Day on SQL 2005 at Reading

Marcus and I did an event down in Reading today on SQL 2005 and we promised that we'd share the demos that we used. The slide decks will be available here in a few working days. The demos are not particularly well packaged for re-use so feel free to take Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:45 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Second UK Developer Developer Developer Day

The second UK Developer, Developer, Developer Day has been announced. This is going to be on Saturday (yes, Saturday - people really liked this last time) the 22nd October and it'll be at the Microsoft Campus down in Reading. The website with all the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:35 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

WPF: Task Switching in 3D - beginner's sample :-)

I've been playing around a little bit with the Windows Presentation Framework and taking my first baby-steps into the world of 3D that it presents. I haven't found it too bad and even managed to come out with a little bit of hit-testing under my belt Read More...
Posted Monday, August 15, 2005 3:35 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Following comments on the Indigo programming model

I've been watching this post and this one and the associated comments about Indigo and its programming model - very interesting stuff. I'm still struggling to get past the bit where someone said "boundaries are explicit" before handing me a tool that Read More...
Posted Monday, August 15, 2005 1:58 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

VS 2005: Source Server Support?

I reinstalled VS 2005 the other day and as I set up my personal options (for the last time given that I've now exported them properly and stored them) I noticed something in the Tools->Options->Debugging section that I hadn't seen before (might Read More...
Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 2:56 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Avalon: Ian Griffiths has a couple of great posts

I've been playing with the WPF CTP and then the subsequent beta for a little while now and I've been running it on Windows XP. One of the things that I struggled quite a bit with was the support for Video. I can get video to play but there's some quirkiness Read More...
Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 2:41 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

August CTP: Changes to Nullable coming

Wow - this one pretty much went by me. As I'm sure most people will have spotted, .NET FX 2.0 has a new generic type called Nullable<T> which does what you would do if you wanted to represent a Nullable reference type (i.e. store the reference type Read More...
Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 2:26 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Avalon: 3D "for the rest of us"

I'm not a 3D graphics person and never have been so I've been banging my head a little against the wall trying to understand 3D in "Avalon" (WCP now I guess). There's a couple of great articles over here http://blogs.msdn.com/danlehen/archive/2004/07/19/188075.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 1:28 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Comments back on

Following Martin's advice ( http://martinparry.com/cooboogler/archive/2005/08/07/3603.aspx ) I've turned blog comments back on for this site so you can comment away once again. Hopefully, using that additional ASP.NET control on the comments page will Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 1:04 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

First XAPP App

I've managed to get my top notch web hoster ( www.webhost4life.com ) to add the necessary MIME type mappings to their web server in order that I can deploy "Avalon" XAPP apps. My fantastic calculator app (!) is now at http://mtaulty.com/xapps/expresscalc.xapp Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 3:27 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Playing with Virtual Earth

I've been playing with Virtual Earth a little bit like most other people probably have over the last week or so since it was launched. Note: This is just a sample application that I was playing with for my own fun. Take care to read the terms and conditions Read More...
Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 3:49 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments