Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - Posts

posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:26 PM by mtaulty :: 6 Comments

Free Silverlight Training at Lynda.com

There's 4.5 hours of free Silverlight training up at Lynda.com. Go here for the materials, the topic list looks pretty comprehensive to me; 1. Understanding Silverlight 2. Discovering Silverlight Experiences 3. Silverlight Tools: Expression and Visual Read More
posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:20 PM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

3D Desktop Management

Quite a while ago I played with a bit of free software called Yodm3D which provided a 3D virtual desktop manager for Windows and worked on Vista. This is being turned into a commercial product called DeskSpace and I've just installed and tried their trial Read More
posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 4:47 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Singularity

I found this research site fascinating although I'm currently struggling to read the whitepaper because the PDF reader keeps crashing on me :-( Read More
posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 4:29 AM by mtaulty :: 9 Comments

UK Visual Studio 2008 Resources

An internal MS person today asked the perfectly reasonable question of "Where can I find some resources on Visual Studio 2008?". I know that we've done quite a lot of "stuff" in the UK team and Daniel's recent post is a good place to start. Beyond that, Read More
posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:46 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

LINQ and DML

One of the things that I've heard quite a few times (and I heard it again yesterday) is "how come LINQ doesn't define DML?". This is an interesting one for me. Across data sources we have the pretty consistent query expression pattern. from a in b join Read More

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