November 2006 - Mike Taulty's Blog

ObjectiveView Article on C# 2.0/3.0

Quite a while back I wrote what started out as a "little article" on C# V2.0 and V3.0 for ObjectiveView magazine. If you take a look you'll see that it grew quite a lot as it went along and got published here (PDF). This is nothing earth-shattering in that...

Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 10:20 AM by mtaulty

MSDN Roadshows in 2007

We're doing some developer and IT Pro technology "Roadshows" again in early 2007 and the dates have now been published and registration is open on the web site. Here's the details on dates and registration URLs; MSDN Developer Events; Nottingham - 21st February...

Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 9:42 AM by mtaulty

SWF and XAML Side By Side

Loved this demo up at the WPF Blog that uses the SWF2XAML converter that Mike Swanson published recently.

Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 9:11 AM by mtaulty

DevelopMentor Connected Systems Roadshow

I did a slot today on Workflow Foundation with ASP.NET at the DevelopMentor Connected Systems Roadshow on the Microsoft Campus. This was part of a larger day of content that Dominick was doing around ASP.NET in general. The materials from the talk are here...

Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 8:42 AM by mtaulty

Workflow Foundation == Lego

Just something random that popped into my head today - programming with Workflow Foundation is like building things with Lego. It's the way in which Activities expose properties that just snap together with other Activities and it's somehow very satisfying...

Published Fri, Nov 24 2006 3:26 PM by mtaulty

WF - "CallExternalMethod", "HandleExternalEvent"

I sat in on a workshop on WF yesterday that David was running. One of the interesting discussions that came up was around the "CallExternalMethod"/"HandleExternalEvent" Activities. The idea of these Activities is that you can build a Workflow which makes a...

Published Thu, Nov 23 2006 5:51 AM by mtaulty

MSDN Article on Creating Custom WF Activities

Nice article over on MSDN about creating activities for WF. I've done a few WF talks this week and I think one of the things that people struggle with is the section entitled Asynchronous and Event-Based Activities. That is - how do you have activities that...

Published Wed, Nov 22 2006 4:32 PM by mtaulty

Workflow Foundation in an XBAP

Paul's got a post over here about running WF foundation in an XBAP. The upshot is that WF (like WCF proxies) won't run in a partial trust environment so if you're going to run WF in an XBAP then you need to alter the security policy to give your particular...

Published Wed, Nov 22 2006 4:20 PM by mtaulty

Interesting little article on non-SQL injections

Over here (pulled straight from the front page of slashdot today).

Published Wed, Nov 22 2006 3:48 PM by mtaulty

Upgrading from Vista RC2 to Vista RTM

I was reading that Daniel moved to Vista RTM and he mentioned that you can't go from RC2 to RTM. Now, on my laptop, I wiped the installation and started again with RTM but on my desktop at home I had RC2 and I thought I'd give it a whirl with the RTM and, as...

Published Fri, Nov 17 2006 4:51 AM by mtaulty

PowerShell Released

I was talking to some chaps the other day about PowerShell and I realised that I didn't really know where it was up to only to find that they'd gone and released it :-) Here's the link - PowerShell V1.0 for Windows XP, Server 2003 and Vista. Time to move shells...

Published Fri, Nov 17 2006 4:47 AM by mtaulty

Joe Stegman on WPF/E

Joe Stegman's WPF/E blog is sparking into life again .

Published Fri, Nov 17 2006 4:43 AM by mtaulty

Workflow Designer & IGlyphProvider

I was trying to build a very simplified version of the Workflow Monitor sample which ships in the WF SDK - I find that it does quite a lot to get to grips with so I just wanted something simple which would query my tracking database for running workflows and...

Published Fri, Nov 17 2006 2:37 AM by mtaulty

Playing with Sparkle, WPF

I saw this piece of UI over at http://www.samsung.com that's done in Flash and it seemed effective so I thought that I'd have a go with WPF and Sparkle to see if I could reproduce it. Essentially, there are 3 small rectangles over a background image and there...

Published Fri, Nov 17 2006 2:34 AM by mtaulty