Friday, May 04, 2007 - Posts

posted Friday, May 04, 2007 5:56 PM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

Sliverlight - Filling Rectangles with "Pieces of Video"

Given my "discovery" of the VideoBrush, I'd been wondering for quite a while how you did that trick where you took a playing video (or maybe an Image) and you "split it up" across a number of different shapes (in my case rectangles) such that the same Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 4:48 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Silverlight and VideoBrush

Did Silverlight always have a VideoBrush? Not sure - I thought I'd looked for it before and hadn't seen it or perhaps I was looking for a VisualBrush and that's what confused me. Anyway, I spotted that the 1.1 Alpha definitely has a VideoBrush so Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 5:12 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

AndersH on LINQ to SQL at MIX

Another MIX session I caught up with on video - watched Anders talking about LINQ. Great talk, I liked that the structure of it wasn't that different from the structure that I usually take to talk about it which made me feel slightly reassured that Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 3:06 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

"It's just RESTing"

Sorry for the title, couldn't resist. I found this; "SOAP is Comatose But Not Officially Dead" followed by this; http://blogs.msdn.com/mikechampion/archive/2005/02/20/376975.aspx and this; http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2005/02/15/372982.aspx Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 2:52 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

LINQ to SQL and Query Notifications

At an event the other week someone asked me how to deal with Query Notifications (from SQL 2005) when you're using LINQ to SQL and I flagged it as one of those interesting things that I hadn't really thought about. As I always do, I asked the chap to Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 2:06 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

"Vista Squad" Meeting

The guys from the newly formed "Vista Squad" are having their second meeting on the Microsoft Campus on the 24th May. Check out the following for details; http://vistasquad.co.uk/blogs/announcements/archive/2007/05/02/vista-squad-2-0.aspx topics are Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 1:48 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

MIX Session DEV10

I've been watching the DEV10 session from MIX. If you do web development then I think this session is really interesting even if you're not necessarily planning to put Silverlight UI on your site. Why? More options... You can program the HTML DOM from Read More
posted Friday, May 04, 2007 12:56 AM by mtaulty :: 2 Comments

LINQ to Video #15

For the initial post, see here. Today's Video Title Calling Standard T-SQL Functions Topic LINQ to SQL Publication Date 4th May, 2007 Download Link(best to save, not stream) http://mtaulty.com/videos/nuggets/l2s/15_mt_l2s_callingsqlfunctions.wmv Read More