Monday, April 16, 2007 - Posts

posted Monday, April 16, 2007 3:19 PM by mtaulty :: 22 Comments

LINQ to Video #1

Background I made some short videos about LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML and I thought I'd start sharing them here in the first instance. My plan is to update this post every working day that I can with a new video for the next few weeks until I run out Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 10:39 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Workflow Web Approvals Starter Kit

This has been highlighted elsewhere but I thought I'd just pick out the new Workflow Web Approvals Starter Kit. I've been chatting via mail with one or two people today about how you can get data into and out of Workflows hosted inside of ASP.NET and Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 5:46 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Silverlight

The technology formerly known as "WPF/E" has a new and proper name of Silverlight. The announcement only came out today but I spotted that Cnet has it up here. I'm glad to see the name change as I think "WPF/E" was about the worst code name ever in that Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 2:10 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Holiday Post 4: Mice

I'm not sure when I started acquiring notebook mice but I seem to have got a bit addicted to buying them. First I got this one; then I got this one; which I replaced with this one; and I liked that one a lot so I kept hold of it for quite a while but Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 2:09 AM by mtaulty :: 3 Comments

Holiday Post 3: The case of the VW Golf Mk5 and the Audi Phatbox (They tried to make me go to iPod and I said "No, no, no")

This is way off topic. I changed my car. I used to have an Audi A4 and now I have a VW Golf (the Mark 5/Mark V). In changing my car one of the things that I care a lot about is trying to find a solution for music as I like to have access to my music from Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 2:08 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Holiday Post 2 : Upgrading the Media Center (sic) to Vista

After a few previous attempts with the betas and RC's that didn't really work out, I thought I'd have another go at upgrading my Media Centre to Windows Vista. My Media Centre has been around for a while, it's a Shuttle SN85G4V2 and (as I remember) it Read More
posted Monday, April 16, 2007 2:06 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Holiday Post 1: No Escape

I've been away for a few days but it looks like it's impossible to escape totally no matter where you go :-)   (The only sad thing here was that they couldn't cover up the whole of that concrete building with the poster :-)). Read More