October 2008 - Mike Taulty's Blog

PDC Day 2 - 2 is bigger than 1

Day 2 of the PDC keynotes was much more engaging and exciting for me than day 1. There's some very cool stuff around; Windows 7 WPF Silverlight Live Mesh VS 2010 Office 14 Well worth watching at; http://www.microsoftpdc.com and some of the Azure stuff became...

Published Tue, Oct 28 2008 12:15 PM by mtaulty

Silverlight 2 and Localisation/Globalisation

Localisation/Globalisation isn't my subject and it's a gnarly old topic so I generally leave it to folks like Guy who has a specific interest in that area, knows his onions and wrote the book! :-) However, a couple of things sparked my interest here. One was...

Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 1:35 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

New WPF Perf Tools

Available up here .

Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 1:33 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

PDC Day 1 - Ozzie's Keynote - "Operating System for the Cloud"

Hey, I was going to write up Ray's session but, really, what's the point? No way I can make it better than you'll get by popping up here; http://www.microsoftpdc.com and watching it yourself.

Published Mon, Oct 27 2008 10:51 AM by mtaulty

PDC, Day Minus 2

Made it to the PDC - a journey that really began on Thursday as I was doing an event in London on the Friday and L.A. is a journey that has to start in London. It's nice to see sunshine again - forgotten what that looked like :-) Tomorrow is "Day Minus 1" with...

Published Sat, Oct 25 2008 5:49 PM by mtaulty

MSDN "Roadshow Rerun" in London

Thanks to all the people who came to our re-run of the MSDN Roadshow that went around the country earlier in the year - this was a bunch of sessions on; ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data and other enhancements in VS 2008 Sp1...

Published Fri, Oct 24 2008 4:04 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities

Astoria Online/Offline

Tantalising post from the Astoria team.

Published Thu, Oct 23 2008 2:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, XML, WebServices, SQLServer, EntityFramework, DataAccess, DataServices

WPF and Lenovo

When I get a new laptop (or any PC) if it comes pre-loaded with software then I wipe it and start again as, generally, you can get stuck with what now seem to be called (cr)applets from someone who pre-installed the OS for you. When I got my OS up and running...

Published Thu, Oct 23 2008 4:25 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Hardware

Developer Day 7

Registration is open for the 7th Developer Day on Saturday the 22nd November at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. and the link for the website with the agenda is up here; http://www.developerday.co.uk Hope to see you there and don't delay on that registration...

Published Wed, Oct 22 2008 2:44 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Updated Nibbles Tutorial Site for Silverlight 2

Looking better than ever ( and it always looked great );

Published Tue, Oct 21 2008 3:47 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

WPF, Experiments with the CodePlex Shader Library

I took the Pixel Shader library from CodePlex which has a bunch of WPF 3.5 Service Pack 1 Pixel Shaders and I built a little toy application from it. What the application does is to try and enumerate all the ShaderEffect s in the library and then take a picture...

Published Tue, Oct 21 2008 1:53 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability ( 2 )

Following on from this post , I changed the library code that I was using a little to make the job of creating HTML ( specifically in my case a table ) in Silverlight 2 easier again. If I want to get hold of a div called myDiv and create a table within it then...

Published Fri, Oct 17 2008 5:17 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight Screencasts

Just a note - I updated the app up at www.silverlightscreencasts.com to the RTM version of Silverlight. Note, that does not mean that I updated the video content which is still on beta 2 and I added a note to the app to make that clear. It took me around 25...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2008 4:19 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability

I like the HTML DOM interoperability in Silverlight, I spent quite a lot of time in my UK REMIX talk (up here http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx on day 2) demonstrating various things that we can do with it and it's very, very rich and powerful...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2008 3:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 2

Has RTM'd ( as you might have noticed :-) ). Tim has a great blog post here which covers it all and he links to Shawn’s post about his teams plans for controls which talks about additional controls. Nothing that I can add right now - just in the process of...

Published Tue, Oct 14 2008 3:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

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PDC Day 1 - Ozzie's Keynote - "Operating System for the Cloud"

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MSDN "Roadshow Rerun" in London

Astoria Online/Offline

WPF and Lenovo

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Updated Nibbles Tutorial Site for Silverlight 2

WPF, Experiments with the CodePlex Shader Library

Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability ( 2 )

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Silverlight 2, Html DOM Interoperability

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