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October 2008 - Posts

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:15 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 1:35 PM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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New WPF Perf Tools

Available up here . Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 1:33 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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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. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 10:51 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 5:49 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 4:04 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Astoria Online/Offline

Tantalising post from the Astoria team. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:37 PM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:25 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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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, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:44 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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Updated Nibbles Tutorial Site for Silverlight 2

Looking better than ever ( and it always looked great ); Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:47 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:53 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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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 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 5:17 PM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:19 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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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. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:36 PM by mtaulty | 5 Comments
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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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:48 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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VBUG Conference, 4th & 5th November at Microsoft, Reading

Just a quick plug for the VBUG Conference running in the Microsoft offices at Reading on the 4th and 5th November. There's a cracking agenda up here; http://www.vbug.com/Conference/2008AgendaDay1.aspx http://www.vbug.com/Conference/2008AgendaDay2.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 2:34 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF and "Binding to a Computed Value"

I was talking to Eric at FOWA about how you might be able to databind in WPF whilst applying some kind of multiplication factor. For instance you might want to do something like this; < StackPanel > < TextBlock Text ="{Binding ElementName=theSlider,Path=Value}" Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:22 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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What is Silverlight?

A lot of my discussions at FOWA 08 were along the lines of "What is Silverlight?" and I realised that I don't really have a great resource to point someone at if they're looking for a basic overview and aren't already immersed in a world of .NET development. Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:51 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

Mike goes to FOWA (Part 2)

Following up on this post . FOWA didn't quite go as I expected - I didn't really get to a lot of sessions as I spent quite a lot of time chatting to people on the Microsoft stand around Silverlight, Expression and Windows Presentation Foundation. If you Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:03 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF and Virtual Earth, Part 3

Following up from this post , I'd been playing around a little with using my Virtual Earth control and I realised that it wasn't really working :-) The main problem was that I was tending to call VEMap.Find() more than once at the same time and I'd read Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:29 PM by mtaulty | 2 Comments
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Mike goes to FOWA (Part 1)

#define FOWA "Future of Web Apps" One of those "early starts" for me today as it's time to get up at 4.15 to head off down to London for " Future of Web Apps ". I needed to be in Docklands by about 9am and it turns out that I could get a train ticket Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:12 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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Outlook 2007: "The Text Formatting Command is not Available"

Hmm. I was reading my mail this morning. Shutdown Outlook to do something else ( I do this, I don't like leaving Outlook running otherwise it eats your day ). I run it up later on and notice that the reading pane isn't displaying the selected mail. I Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 3:18 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF Pixel Shader Library on CodePlex

Via Jaime R, there's a whole set of transitions and effects to download up at CodePlex if you're on 3.5 Sp1. Link Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 1:08 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF and Virtual Eath, Part 2

Following on from here , I thought I'd add a little bit of pushpin support to my basic Virtual Earth control for WPF. Essentially, I added a new property to the control called PushPins and each one of those is just a tuple of; { Latitude, Longitude, Text Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:53 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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WPF and Virtual Earth

WPF Version 3.5 Service Pack 1 has a new WebBrowser control as I talked about a little here; http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/mtaulty/WPF-35-Sp1-WebBrowser-Control/ and some of the nice things about the control are; It can load HTML from a Stream or a string Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 6:54 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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UK Centre on Channel 9

We've started some tentative steps towards a UK area on Channel 9 which is up here; http://channel9.msdn.com/UnitedKingdom/ Let me know if you've got great ideas around what should appear up there. If you're a community leader in the UK then you should Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 3:35 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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REMIX UK Sessions on the Web

My ( and everyone else's :-) ) sessions from REMIX UK are now live on the web for viewing up at; http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx I'm on Day 2 with my; No Silverlight ( 2 ) Application Is An Island of Richness Beyond Silverlight with Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 3:31 AM by mtaulty | 2 Comments

JavaScript makes me want to cry

I spent about 3 hours today trying to figure out why some little piece of script (in amongst some other masses of script) wasn't running. I think it ultimately came down to the difference between; <script .....> </script> and <script.... Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 5:37 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Forcing 32-bit CLR Exes on a 64-bit Machine

This one really comes via Mike in that today we were both running the same application on our machines ( same machine spec ) and it was working for me but not for him. We were foxed until he pointed out that he was running 64-bit ( which I stopped running Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:06 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF - Experimenting with Multi-Input Pixel Shaders

Whilst my day job continues on its ever-accelerating decline :-) I thought I'd entertain myself by experimenting with multi-input pixel shaders in WPF following on from the post I wrote over here . Now, luckily for me Greg over here has already talked Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:00 PM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF DataGrid and Hiding Columns

Looking for advice here :-) I find that in the WPF/Silverlight DataGrids there's this option which is really useful; AutoGenerateColumns="true/false" but I generally don't want either true or false . What I seem to want is; "Autogenerate all of them but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:25 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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DataGrid - Master/Details

Following on from that previous post about the WPF DataGrid I thought it might be interesting to try and move towards more of a master/details view with a separate grid displaying the orders for each customer. I modified the UI a little bit; < Window Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:38 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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More on .NET 4.0 along with some "Oslo" and a little "Dublin"

From this blog post , check out the whitepaper and the webcast as well. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:27 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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