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August 2008 - Posts

WPF Airlines

I often hear of the "Source Code Compatibility" between Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation and so today I thought I'd try it out a little bit. Personally, I don't view this as; Take your SL source code, add a few bits and pieces and you have Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:04 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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.NET Client Profile ( 3 )

I got so excited about the .NET Client Profile that I made a screencast about it and stuck it on Channel 9; http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/mtaulty/WPF-ClickOnce-and-the-NET-Client-Profile/ When will I get a life? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:20 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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Get Your IE8 Beta 2 Whilst It's Hot

From here . This will be my first leap into the world of IE8. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:54 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

The .NET Client Profile ( 2 )

Following on from this post I wanted to see if I could get my Client Profile installation to work with ClickOnce. To be honest, I struggled quite a bit with this. Sticking with my "Hello World" WPF application, I made sure that on the Publish tab of my Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:53 AM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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My Web Server's Dead - Corrupt applicationHost.config

Hmm, today I find that IIS on my laptop suddenly won't start as it has a corrupt applicationHost.config file. The event log says; The Windows Process Activation Service encountered an error trying to read configuration data from file '\\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config', Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:49 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

The .NET Client Profile

If you're building something like a .NET WPF client application then one of the major bugbears (for both you and for Microsoft - let's be honest here :-)) is trying to get the .NET Framework on to the client machine. We're trying to make this easier but Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:48 PM by mtaulty | 7 Comments
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Silverlight Controls from Intersoft

Some of these controls are very cool - I've not looked at how "declarative" and easy to use they might be in your own apps but there's a very rich experience going on there. Intersoft's Silverlight Controls Demo Take a look at a few of the demos, use Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:41 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

MIX UK and TechEd Europe 2008

Following up on this "I will be at PDC" post, I thought I'd do another "Where will I be" style post and say that I'll also be at MIX UK where I'm doing a Silverlight 2 session; It looks like I'm on the agenda on the second day and I'll be doing a talk Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 3:37 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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PDC 2008

It looks like ( fingers crossed ) I will be able to attend PDC in Los Angeles at the end of October :-) I'm hoping to be at the pre-con on the Sunday that's focused on concurrent programming and then to be around for the week until the conference ends Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 9:44 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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The Curious Incident of the MessageBox in the Silverlight App

I've been puzzling over how you'd actually do; MessageBox.Show() in a Silverlight 2 application. I don't mean HtmPage.Window.Alert(""). I mean something that stays within the bounds of the SL control but asks the user a question. Naturally, there's many Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 6:58 AM by mtaulty | 8 Comments
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I'm Missing My Default Parameter Values

I miss default parameter values from C++. In C# if I have some method Foo; static void Foo( int intValue, float floatValue, string stringValue) { } and there's the possibility that all the parameters can be "optional" then I end up writing something like; Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 6:46 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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Duplex WCF Services with Silverlight 2

Hmm. Maybe I'm just suffering a post-holiday motivational low ( which I am, in a big way :-) ) but I've been reading this; Accessing Duplex Services and I'm struggling to see how the "reward" here is justifying the "effort". With Silverlight, it's pretty Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 2:28 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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