Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - Posts

posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:27 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

IE 7 and OPML importing

  I went and installed the IE 7 Beta 2 Preview on my XP OS as I had been using it on Vista and was enjoying it more than IE 6.   I then realised that I'd like to get my RSS feeds into it which again caused me to look for an OPML import - maybe it's there Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:42 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

RSS API's Again

  It's interesting to see the amount of feedback that this post about the RSS API's with IE 7 is getting.   The majority of the follow up posts that I can see are asking "How come it's a COM API and where's the .NET Wrapper for it".   I think this is Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:33 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Doing Workflow? Doing WPF? Those properties are not just .NET properties any more!

  I think the whole subject of "attached properties" in the context of WPF and WF is one that's yet to bite most people and so this post is really important.   I realised I'd lost the plot when I saw that my property value in my Workflow was changing Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:25 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Some WPF Name Changes Coming - Heading Towards "Ship Mode"?

  Just passing on this post that I noticed - with the Feb CTP of the WPF (which must be coming "real soon now") the namespaces are changing which will break all the XAML samples that are out there.   Follow the link for the details.   Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Fusion HDTV Dual Tuner DVB-T Card for MCE 2005

I upgraded my tuners in my media center last night.   I'd been running with dual analogue tuners from Hauppauge - the PVR MCE 500 and I'd been getting pretty good picture quality from it but I wanted to switch to digital and I also wanted to get the extra Read More