Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - Posts

posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:19 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

Trying out Silverlight Streaming

I had a go at Silverlight Streaming (http://silverlight.live.com) and it worked pretty well, first time around for me. I just built a little Video Player (it's not quite of the glossy standards you'll find at MIX this week) which I put together using Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:04 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Off Topic - Internet "Code of Conduct"

Had to say that I loved this; http://politicstalk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?128@88.waYfbx4U7Su.1@.775e9244 there's some cracking comments in that set of questions and answers and, in many ways, I found it pretty reassuring. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:48 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

VB...X ?

A snippet that I missed from the MIX announcements was that hidden away in the Dynamic Language announcements was some stuff to do with the next version of Visual Basic - the best I found so far is here; "What the heck is VBx?" Caught me completely by Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:09 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

IE with Add-Ons Disabled

Here's just a word for running IE7 with add-ons disabled. Seems an awful lot faster to me when I use it that way - on Vista this lives in Start->All Programs->System Tools (not sure why). Give it a try (naturally, it's useless for Silverlight, Flash Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:57 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

WCF, P2P and the "Unreachable Network" exception

I have a demo app that I've been using for a long time to talk about WCF (I published it here once). It's "nice" in that it shows contracts, implementations and, with a minimal bit of re-config, I can show it doing HTTP+SOAP Security, Secure TCP, Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:29 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Pushing Content to Silverlight Streaming

I sat up late last night and had my first experiment with Expression Media Encoder. I'd seen Wayne demo this on the MIX keynote video doing the A/B Compare feature where you can compare your original video with the encoded video in a live preview Read More
posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:16 AM by mtaulty :: 2 Comments

LINQ to Video #13

For the initial post, see here. Today's Video Title Querying with Stored Procedures Topic LINQ to SQL Publication Date 2nd May, 2007 Download Link(best to save, not stream) http://mtaulty.com/videos/nuggets/l2s/13_mt_l2s_queryingwithsprocs.wmv Read More