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April 2006 - Posts

10th May, Designer Event in London - Designing Next Generation User Interfaces

I'm a little late in noting this because I've been out on holiday for the past week or so. There's a Microsoft event specifically aimed at Designers and people with a User Interface interest and it's being run in conjunction with Computer Arts magazine. Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 1:33 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Calling Services from XBAP Applications

I wanted to have a play at calling services from an XBAP application. Say I want to build a simple search page and I want to gather the top 10 hits from MSN Search and the top 10 from Google search and I want to bring at most the top 10 of these 2 together Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:41 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WPF ScrollBarVisibility.Disabled and ScrollBarVisibility.Hidden

I learnt to my cost that there's a big difference between ScrollBarVisibility.Disabled and ScrollBarVisibility.Hidden with WPF today. I'm trying to present a simple list and there's some text in each list item and the text may well be wider than the space Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:03 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

The Next Generation User Group (of Coventry)

Richard Costall, Dave McMahon and John Price (collectively known as "The Coventry Three") have put together a new user group and are keen to attract your interest. Check out http://www.nxtgenug.net/ to see what the guys have put together and what they're Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:34 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WinFX Event at Microsoft, Reading on the 10th May

There's a great event happening on the 10th May down at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. It's an evening of WinFX and you can register for it here. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=118771409&Culture=en-GB It promises to be Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:26 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Practical .NET 2 and C# 2

I've just finished reading a book by Patrick Smacchia called " Practical .NET 2 and C# 2 ". I picked it up a few months ago but it's a pretty weighty book so it takes some time to get through it. The main thing that impressed me about the book is its Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:01 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Would you like to download and install Microsoft WinFX Runtime Components?

For the first time today I visited a site that had a WinFX XBAP application present on it and because I'm on my home machine rather than my work machine and it doesn't have WinFX, my browser (IE7) popped up and said; "Would you like to download and install Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 7:12 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Playing with Expression Interactive Designer

I've been playing with the Expression Interactive Designer quite a bit of late (and a little bit with the Graphic Designer as well) and I've been really enjoying it although I must admit that it crashes from time to time (but, hey, it's a preview and Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:47 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

More Workflow Videos

It looks like the "powers that be" ;-) have published some more of the little videos I made around Workflow Foundation. Here's some copied HTML and apologies for the shoddy formatting. Windows Workflow Foundation: Transactions • Watch as a streaming file Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:39 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

UK Microsoft Technical Roadshow 2006

It's that time of year again :-) The UK Technical Roadshow has been announced and it's running in the following venues on the dates listed; Date Location Venue 03/05/06 Birmingham National Motor Cycle Museum 23/05/06 Edinburgh Dynamic Earth 07/06/06 Manchester Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:22 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Keith Brown on InfoCard

Keith Brown has a brief introductory article to InfoCard over here at MSDN . I'm hoping that InfoCard will be a big success as I think it's a technology that there's a strong need for right now but, naturally, usage will depend on many things beyond the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:15 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Nice Video Illustrating WPF and Expression

This Channel 9 Video is really well worth watching as an introduction to WPF, XAML and Expression. Really worth 20 or so minutes of your time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:41 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments