April 2008 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 2 - RegisterCreateableType

I spent about 2 hours trying to figure this out today so I thought I'd just share it here. Mostly, the time lost comes down to Javascript but that's no big surprise :-( Essentially, I'm playing with the HTML Bridge that lets Silverlight .NET code call Javascript...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:57 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Microsoft Office Labs

Interesting stuff happening up here - I haven't installed these bits yet but they look worth a whirl.

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 7:02 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Office

CodeToLive Logos at the MSDN Roadshow

If you've been to our MSDN Roadshows ( approx 800 of you so far - thanks and thanks also for the feedback which we've gone through for Cardiff and London already ) or if you are planning to come along then you'll know that this year we're using cinemas. This...

Published Sun, Apr 27 2008 4:32 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Silverlight 2 - Build Controls!

I've been building quite a bit of Silverlight 2 code and the one thing I'd pass on as a piece of advice is "Build Controls ". Even in situations where I've found myself thinking "Oh, this will just be a lump of XAML" I soon find that approach results in a spaghetti...

Published Sun, Apr 27 2008 12:48 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

MEF?

Very interesting post over here .

Published Sun, Apr 27 2008 12:46 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

Entity Framework Talk at Oracle .NET SIG

Thanks a lot to the people who came along to my Entity Framework talk at the Oracle and .NET Special Interest Group in London today. As promised, I've uploaded the slides in PPTX and PDF format if you need them for anything.

Published Thu, Apr 24 2008 10:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ, ADO.NET, EntityFramework, DataAccess

Entity Framework Talk at VBUG Bristol

Thanks to the people who came along to my talk on Entity Framework at VBUG in Bristol yesterday. I promised that I'd make the slides available and they can be found here for download in PPTX format and PDF format . This was more or less the same talk as I delivered...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 2:45 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LINQ, ADO.NET, EntityFramework

You've got to stop calling it "LINQ" :-)

<rant strength="veryMild"> A bit of a personal bugbear. I've met a lot of folks who say things like "How do you compare LINQ and traditional data access?" or something along those lines. Please. You've got to stop calling it "LINQ" :-) LINQ is not necessarily...

Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 2:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: LINQ

Databinding XML in Silverlight 2

I passed across some code to Daniel just last night as he was struggling to get LINQ to XML to read some XML data from a web site ( actually, a web service ) for him. One of the things I miss in Silverlight ( from WPF ) is the ability to naturally bind to XML...

Published Fri, Apr 18 2008 11:41 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Entity Framework Talk at NxtGen Southampton

Thanks a lot to the guys that run NxtGen Southampton and the attendees who came along to my talk on the ADO.NET Entity Framework this evening . I really enjoyed it and hope that you enjoyed it too if you came along - the venue was really interesting ( in what...

Published Thu, Apr 17 2008 2:25 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: EntityFramework

Silverlight 2 - Video, Markers, XML

I encountered a chap the other day who was building an application which did something like this; Play a video Load a set of times and thumbnail images from an XML file. Highlight the thumbnail images at the point where the video hits the right position. I...

Published Wed, Apr 16 2008 6:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 2, Databinding to the MediaElement.Position property

In a word, don't :-) MediaElement.Position is very attractive because it's pretty common to display some UI to show an indicator displaying where you're up to within a particular video. MediaElement.Position is of type TimeSpan and it's a DependencyProperty...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 4:12 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 2, Buttons in ListBoxes

Just something that I came across recently. If I have a ListBox like this; <Grid x:Name= "LayoutRoot" Background= "White" > <ListBox ItemsSource= "{Binding}" > <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Button Content= "Click Me" Click...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 4:07 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 2 - Getting to the ListBoxItems in a ListBox

If you've got a Silverlight UI like this; < Grid x:Name ="LayoutRoot" Background ="White" > < ListBox ItemsSource ="{Binding}" x:Name ="lstNumbers" > < ListBox.ItemTemplate > < DataTemplate > < StackPanel Orientation ="Horizontal...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 4:01 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight - Dynamically Loading an Assembly

Just something that someone asked me about today so sharing here. Imagine that you want to define a portion of your Silverlight application but leave some other piece to run time. For example - a calculation engine or perhaps something more complicated like...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2008 4:37 AM by mtaulty

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Silverlight 2 - RegisterCreateableType

Microsoft Office Labs

CodeToLive Logos at the MSDN Roadshow

Silverlight 2 - Build Controls!

MEF?

Entity Framework Talk at Oracle .NET SIG

Entity Framework Talk at VBUG Bristol

You've got to stop calling it "LINQ" :-)

Databinding XML in Silverlight 2

Entity Framework Talk at NxtGen Southampton

Silverlight 2 - Video, Markers, XML

Silverlight 2, Databinding to the MediaElement.Position property

Silverlight 2, Buttons in ListBoxes

Silverlight 2 - Getting to the ListBoxItems in a ListBox

Silverlight - Dynamically Loading an Assembly