July 2008 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - ASMX Services & XmlSerializer

It wasn't clear to me from reading the Silverlight SDK docs whether or not you could call ASMX services from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 if calling those services meant involing the XmlSerializer. Silverlight is using WCF to call services and WCF usually uses the...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 7:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline ( Part 2 )

Following up on this post , it seems that there's more to this online/offline malarky in HTML 5 in that this; http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#appcache talks about Application Caches. As far as I can work out, that's to do with providing more of...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 11:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline

One of the things that's coming in IE8 and is already present in FireFox 3 as far as I know is HTML 5's ability to detect whether the browser is online or offline and to provide some offline storage ( alongside cookies ) for the application. You can find some...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 5:15 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Dell Hybrid

Dell's got a (reasonably) nice looking little machine that might make a nice Media Center. I run ( Vista ) Media Center under my TV on a Shuttle box ( search the blog for Shuttle you'll find the specs ) every day and it works extremely well. For me, Media Center...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 4:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Hardware

Using Excel as an XML Editor

In a couple of instances recently I've had cause to take data that exists in an Excel spreadsheet and save it out as XML and, whilst it's slightly off-topic, I thought I'd share as I find it "enjoyable" :-) I don't mean as a .XLSX file but, rather, as an XML...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 1:22 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Office

Silverlight 2 Videos on Silverlight.net

Nice to see that the videos that Mike and I made on Silverlight 2 are now on Silverlight.net up here; http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=10

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 3:10 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

I produced a new set of short videos around ADO.NET Data Services and dropped them on to Channel 9. You can find them here; http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK and that list will grow as time goes in ( specifically, it'll grow if I can get the publishing system...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 4:00 AM by mtaulty

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

Don't Steal My Focus

I've been encoding videos today with Expression Encoder 2. I load up a batch of videos and set them transcoding. This takes ages and burns CPU cycles like nobody's business - at times like this you wish the age of quad-core, eight-core and so on was already...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 1:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 4 )

Following on from this post , I wanted to see what would happen if I opened my solution in Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview and tried to style my control a little. So, I opened it in Blend. I got a bit stuck straight away because when I tried to display my...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 3:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

SQL Bits III

I've managed to submit a session for SQL Bits III in Hatfield on Saturday the 13th September. If I manage to make the vote then I'll be talking about ADO.NET Data Services as a way of ( productively ) exposing CRUD access to your data over RESTful web services...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 1:02 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 3 )

Following on from this post , and with reference to these posts by scorbs and this one by Ian, I thought it was time that my control got some states. I didn't want to be too ambitious with this so I figured that my control perhaps just needed some basic states...

Published Sat, Jul 19 2008 3:59 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 2 )

Following on from this post . I wanted to make sure that I only ever had a maximum of [Previous, Current, Next] images loaded in my control whilst still pro-actively trying to load an image as a user "heads towards it". That is, if the user is on image N then...

Published Fri, Jul 18 2008 4:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

My Silverlight and WPF Dream

I've been having this dream about Silverlight and WPF. Alright, I haven't :-) But, I've talked to a few people about Silverlight and WPF integration recently and I have this vision in my head of what I'd really love to see. Now, don't get me wrong - to the...

Published Fri, Jul 18 2008 3:44 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 1 )

On web pages, you often see a control that displays a set of pictures with a list of the total number of pictures and a next/previous button to move between them. MSN has one that looks like this; and I kind of fancied using this as a means to play with a Silverlight...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2008 4:59 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Channel9

I've been posting some of my/ Mike's Silverlight 2 B2 videos onto Channel 9. The page is here; http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/UK I'm hoping to use that page as a central place for video publishing going forward and possibly adapt it to other uses as well if...

Published Tue, Jul 15 2008 7:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - ASMX Services & XmlSerializer

Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline ( Part 2 )

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Dell Hybrid

Using Excel as an XML Editor

Silverlight 2 Videos on Silverlight.net

Added (Updated) ADO.NET Data Services Videos to C9

Don't Steal My Focus

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 4 )

SQL Bits III

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 3 )

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 2 )

My Silverlight and WPF Dream

Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 1 )

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