July 2007 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh - Name Things :-)

If you're writing code that dynamically generates "things" (Storyboards and so on) with the V1.1 Alpha Refresh then don't forget to give them a name (i.e. from a XAML perspective this is typically what you set with "x:Name" (using the convention of x there...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 2:23 PM by mtaulty

VS 2008 Beta 2 - LINQ to SQL

I had my first play with LINQ to SQL in VS 2008 Beta 2 today. Things that I "noticed" that were new (i.e. this is not a definitive list, purely what I spotted) when I created code using the LINQ to SQL designer. My derived context now has a Database attribute...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2007 4:26 AM by mtaulty

Toolset.Refresh

Just uninstalling my VS 2008 Beta 1 and installing; VS 2008 Beta 2 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh Expression Blend 2, August Preview Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh SDK

Published Sun, Jul 29 2007 1:50 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1: Trying to build a simple drag-and-drop capability

I wanted a very simple kind of drag and drop ability in Silverlight V1.1 and I struggled to build it. Basic procedure might be to build a Canvas that does something like; Capture mouse down on a FrameworkElement Watch for mouse drag. As the mouse drags, create...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 8:50 AM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1: Scrolling Picture List Box

I built a very basic listbox control that will display pictures. It looks like this; and will scroll through a list of items. I define it in XAML like; < ctl:PictureListBox Width ="600" Height ="200" Canvas . Left ="20" Canvas . Top ="140" RadiusX ="10"...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 6:59 AM by mtaulty

Neil's IEeee VSTS Project on CodePlex

I noticed that Neil has uploaded a new version of his IEeee browser plug-in that lets you easily submit defects about a web-site into Visual Studio Team System straight from the browser itself. He's also got some new Work Item Controls for grabbing screenshots...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2007 1:42 AM by mtaulty

Dream Job?

Sounds pretty cool to me

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 3:37 PM by mtaulty

VS 2008 Beta 2

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is done. The details are up here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx I've been working with Beta 1 since that came out and I've found it to be pretty solid so I have high hopes for Beta 2 and it looks like that's...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 2:57 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1: Loaded fires more than once

This is possibly "by design" (i.e. I don't know) but I've noticed that if I reparent a Silverlight control from one Canvas to another then its Loaded event fires for a second time when it is reparented. So, with a user control such as; public class UserControl1...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2007 2:16 AM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1 - Changing the XAML Page

When your Silverlight control loads, it loads up some XAML. It's most likely that this comes from a file specified by the source parameter. For instance; function createSilverlight() { Sys.Silverlight.createObjectEx({ source: "Page1.xaml" , parentElement: document...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2007 5:18 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1 "Tab Like" Control Thingy :-)

I built this little control for Silverlight today so I thought I'd share (note, it doesn't have to be orange). Essentially, it's like a tab control but the "tabs" on the left hand side slide across to the right (and vice versa) to reveal content as in; So,...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2007 3:04 PM by mtaulty

Alex Homer and the Enterprise Library

Phil kindly invited me along to the Manchester Vbug meeting tonight where Alex Homer was delivering a session on using the Enterprise Library with ASP.NET. Alex did a great job and I found the whole thing really interesting. I haven't really spent much time...

Published Wed, Jul 25 2007 2:52 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1 - More on the Dodgy Topic of Controls, Resources and So On

Following up on this post , I took this a little further in that I added support for loading resources from either multiple separate files or from embedded resources within the assembly and took away the requirement to make an explicit call as I had previously...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2007 5:11 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1 - More about controls and complex content

Because of this , it seems to me that it's a bit tricky to build controls :-) Also, it seems that it's a bit tricky to marry up designers and developers. For example, say you want to build the FancyColouredPathControl control. So, you stick a new control into...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2007 12:37 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight V1.1, Controls and "Complex Content"

If you're building controls with V1.1 then take care about trying to set their value. For example, you might build a control Foo with a property of type string called Label . Then, when you use this in XAML you'll be able to do; < myNS:Foo Label ="Hello...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2007 8:58 AM by mtaulty

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