Monday, January 30, 2006 - Posts

posted Monday, January 30, 2006 7:16 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Doing the Sparkle (Expression Interactive Designer) Tutorials

  I'm pretty new to Sparkle. I've been aware of it for quite a long time and I've played with various versions along the way but, today, I sat down and went through the tutorials that come with the Jan CTP and I was absolutely blown away by it.   It's Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 2:17 AM by Mike Taulty :: 4 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 8: Tidying Up :-)

  Following on from this post, when I've got tired of messing around with my RSS feeds and I want to go back to how things were I can remove feeds and folders.   MSH feeds:\Renamed New Feeds\Mike Taulty> cd .. MSH feeds:\Renamed New Feeds> rmdir Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 2:11 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 7: Downloading feeds and navigating feed items

  Following on from this post, now I've got my new RSS feed created if I want to go and download it I can do a quick;     MSH feeds:\Renamed New Feeds> invoke-item "Mike Taulty"   and then drop into that folder and do a quick dir to see what items Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 2:05 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 6: Making new feeds

  Following on from this post, if I want to add a new subscription in my current folder I can either create a new feed object and then create the feed from it or I can create the new feed with defaults (as below) and then alter the various properties Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:45 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS provider 5: Making new folders and feeds

  Following up on this post, if I want to create new folders for feeds to live in so that I can subscribe to new feeds then I can go ahead and do that;     MSH feeds:\Technology\Mike Taulty's Weblog> cd .. MSH feeds:\Technology> cd .. MSH feeds:\> Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:35 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS provider 4: Viewing a feed

  Following up on this post, if I've navigated into a feed I can then go and view a particular item by invoking it (this is a bit hacky in my view as I use the shell to launch the browser at this point :-));   MSH feeds:\Technology\Mike Taulty's Weblog> Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:30 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 3: Moving around a little, listing feeds and items

Following up on this post, if I want to navigate around my feed store a little then it feels just like the file system, I chose to make folders and feeds both feel like directories.     MSH feeds:\> cd Technology MSH feeds:\Technology> dir | format-list Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:21 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 2: Listing root folders

  Following up on this post, I can navigate to the root of my RSS store and get a list of top level items (folder/feeds) up there. Note: I'm not 100% sure that I have this exactly right as I'd like to lose the generic Msh stuff listed here but I haven't Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Monad RSS Provider 1: Locating our new provider

Following up on this post, here's how I can see that my new provider is up and active within the Monad shell;     ********************** MSH Transcript Start ********************** Transcript started, output file is w:\temp\trans.txt MSH W:\development\monad\RssProvider\RssProvider\bin\Debug> Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:04 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Playing with RSS feeds from the Monad Shell

  I had a go at writing a command-let provider for the Monad Shell (currently installed by adding WinFX or the WinFX SDK - not exactly sure!) that I'm running on my Vista box.   Because it's Vista, there's the new central store for RSS feedds and I thought Read More