Friday, March 16, 2007 - Posts

posted Friday, March 16, 2007 4:20 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

DreamScene

I had a bit of a play with DreamScene following the "Content Pack" coming out. I quite like this stuff - it looks pretty cool. My only "problem" is that on my laptop playing one of these DreamScene videos takes about 25-30% of my CPU which isn't going Read More
posted Friday, March 16, 2007 4:09 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Live Search Gadget

Really like this gadget for searching Live and also this one for searching MSDN. This is how I want the web to work with my machine. I want a nice local UI with a back-end web-service. I don't want (usually) to spark up a browser just to do this Read More
posted Friday, March 16, 2007 3:59 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Windows Vista Magazine in WPF Viewer

Via Richard, this is a pretty cool example of a WPF Viewer for the official Windows Vista magazine. It obviously shares heritage with the British Library application. The only thing that I noticed in this is that if I'm zooming into those documents then Read More
posted Friday, March 16, 2007 3:29 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Samples in Blend RC

Because I'm such an advanced design guru (ok, ok, I know it's never going to happen ;-)) I'd turned off the start page in Expression Blend quite a long time ago and, consequently, when I installed the RC I hadn't realised that we'd shipped a whole new Read More
posted Friday, March 16, 2007 3:01 AM by mtaulty :: 2 Comments

Deconstructing LINQ to SQL (Part 2)

Following up on this previous post, I wanted to play a bit more with how this works for LINQ to SQL. If I've got classes such as these (probably from the code generation tools but I typed this one in myself); [Table(Name="Customers")] class Customer Read More
posted Friday, March 16, 2007 2:56 AM by mtaulty :: 3 Comments

Deconstructing LINQ to SQL (Part 1)

I had the dubious pleasure :-) of driving Daniel back from the MSDN Roadshow in Harrogate to his hotel in Manchester and in the car on the way back we were chatting about LINQ and one of the things he was saying was that he "wanted to know how LINQ Read More