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May 2006 - Posts

Upcoming Windows Vista Webcast Series

I picked up this set of “Vista” webcasts that are coming up over the next month or so – looks like a pretty good list and includes separate WinFX topics but also a few Vista topics such as Task Scheduler, User Account Control, Installations Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 27, 2006 9:40 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows Workflow Foundation & Tetris

This one is purely for fun. When I first started playing with .NET, one of the very first pieces of code that I wrote was a really basic Tetris game using Windows Forms. I’d long since thought that I’d lost this altogether but the other day Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 5:51 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

WinFX and Native Code

We’ve been out doing the UK Microsoft Technical Roadshow and one of the topics that we’re covering is WinFX . Coming to Presentation, Communication, Workflow Foundation(s) for the first time is pretty exciting in terms of how much power you Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 2:50 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Reinstalling Vista Beta 2

Late yesterday I reinstalled Vista Beta 2. It was my easiest install of Vista so far and the quickest install of Windows I’ve ever done. It worked very well and I’m not known for lavishing praise where it’s not due and I have had some Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 2:10 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

IIS Community Site

Who'd have thought it? A whole site devoted to IIS . Good idea :-) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:23 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Software.Reload

A big day for re-installing software for me today with the arrival of WinFX Beta 2, Vista Beta 2 , Office 2007 Beta 2 and May Technical Previews of Expression Interactive Designer and Graphic Designer . Note: I think that you can get all this stuff on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:30 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Visual TaskTips

Via Simon and Jonathan , I came across http://www.visualtasktips.com/ and installed it and ran it and it works pretty well. It's similar to what you get with the TaskBar in Vista where you get live previews of windows although in Vista this is done through Read More...
Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 3:34 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows Vista and User Account Control

It seems to me that User Account Control is one of the most noticeable features of Windows Vista when you're first using it but there's a lot of confusion around it. Hopefully I'll not add to it by getting something wrong. Here's my take on what I found Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:39 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Blog Comments Disabled (Again)

I'm sick of being spammed. Want to contact me? Mail me. Want to reference something here? Link to it from your site. I'm fed up with deleting the mails about medication and so on :-) I have a vague plan to replace this site completely with a simple solution Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:34 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

All Quiet on the Northern Front

I've been quiet on this site for a little while - had my head down in various different things and spent most of the last week or so playing with Windows Vista. There's a bunch of stuff that I learnt along the way and I'll try and blog as much as I can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:44 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Hierarchical Data Binding with WPF

I had a bit of a play with Hierarchical data binding with the WPF. There are good documents and samples in the SDK but I still struggled initially to fathom it out, I could get it to work ok for XML but then I had to think a bit more for data. The most Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:45 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

David Chappell On InfoCard

David Chappell's written a good article (does he write any other kind I wonder? :-)) on InfoCard up at the MSDN . Some days I seem to get InfoCard properly arranged in my head and then other days I seem not to understand it at all. I think where I'm struggling Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:42 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Get the Consolas font for VS 2005 on Windows XP

Consolas is a really nice font for writing code with. It's already there on Vista but you can get it for Windows XP from here . Read More...
Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 3:10 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Advanced Workflow Foundation Blog

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Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 3:08 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Day III - Agenda Published

I missed this by a couple of days as I'm running around a lot at the moment but the agenda for the 3rd Developer Day has gone live on the web site over here . The Developer(DeveloperDeveloper) Day is a Community day hosted on Saturday the 3rd June at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:30 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments