May 2008 - Posts

posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:34 AM by mtaulty :: 11 Comments

50 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Screencasts

In my "spare time" I've been recording some screencasts about Silverlight 2 Beta 1 along with my colleague Mike. This managed to reach critical mass in that we've now built up a list of 50 screencasts so I thought it was definitely time to share rather Read More
posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:15 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

VS 2008 Sp1 - Want Versus Need

The Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 dilemma. I want to be able to continue to do Silverlight 2 Beta 1 development. I need to install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 for Entity Framework and Data Services. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:54 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

VS 2008 Sp1 Beta Links

Just links.... ScottGu Soma Entity Framework Data Services Download Read More
posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:59 PM by mtaulty :: 4 Comments

DevDays Amsterdam & Events

  I will be at DevDays in Amsterdam the week after this ( i.e. the 22nd and 23rd May ) doing some sessions on; LINQ to XML ADO.NET Entity Framework ADO.NET Data Services It would be nice to see you there if you're coming along. It's been a Read More
posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:21 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

Mocking LINQ to SQL

Matt Warren has an "interesting" post on how you could hack your way to a mocked implementation of LINQ to SQL - if I had a pound for every time someone's asked me how to do this then I'd have at least 3 pounds :-) Seriously though, there is interest Read More

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posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:11 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Silverlight - Healthcare Demo

Interesting demonstration app up here; http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/ put together by some of the MCS guys in the UK as far as I know. The terminology is a bit weird ( "Patient Journey?" ) but the app's quite cool as a playpen for Silverlight Read More

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posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:03 PM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

"I Didn't Do It"

Not guilty. Never touched it. Absolutely nothing to do with me although I did receive some slightly strongly worded mails from some internal IT folks looking for the real culprit :-) Read More

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posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:43 AM by mtaulty :: 3 Comments

Uploading Videos to Silverlight Streaming

I wanted to upload some videos to Silverlight Streaming. There's an area of the admin site that says "Manage Videos" but, unfortunately, it only lets you upload one video at a time through the web page so that could prove painful if you've a few videos. Read More

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posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:48 AM by mtaulty :: 5 Comments

Living with Live

I've been trying to use Live Services a little this week and I've been struggling somewhat and it seems to mostly come down to URLs. I've got a Silverlight app which plays some videos. I don't want the burden of hosting those videos though for either Read More

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posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:43 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

Silverlight 2 - WCF and MaxMessageReceivedSize

I tried specifying a MaxMessageReceivedSize in my config for a Silverlight WCF proxy today and it didn't seem to be getting picked up. Not sure what's going on there but if it helps anyone at any point then I just ended up doing this in code; ImageServiceClient Read More