August 2005 - Mike Taulty's Blog

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 :-)

Published Fri, Aug 26 2005 8:43 AM by mtaulty

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

Published Fri, Aug 26 2005 6:05 AM by mtaulty

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 time....

Published Fri, Aug 26 2005 2:08 AM by mtaulty

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 to be...

Published Sun, Aug 21 2005 4:40 AM by mtaulty

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 them...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2005 2:45 PM by mtaulty

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 details...

Published Tue, Aug 16 2005 1:35 AM by mtaulty

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 but I...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2005 3:35 PM by mtaulty

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 creates...

Published Mon, Aug 15 2005 1:58 AM by mtaulty

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 be new...

Published Fri, Aug 12 2005 2:56 AM by mtaulty

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...

Published Fri, Aug 12 2005 2:41 AM by mtaulty

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 and...

Published Fri, Aug 12 2005 2:26 AM by mtaulty

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...

Published Tue, Aug 9 2005 1:28 AM by mtaulty

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 stop...

Published Tue, Aug 9 2005 1:04 AM by mtaulty

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...

Published Sun, Aug 7 2005 3:27 PM by mtaulty

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...

Published Mon, Aug 1 2005 3:49 PM by mtaulty