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November 2008 - Posts

Various Links

I've been catching up on my blog reading...interesting stuff I came across; PNRP in Windows 7 being used for "remote assistance" . Sounds very cool. You can find a few PNRP examples on this blog if you search. Seadragon in AJAX from Live Labs - if you've Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:59 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments

Silverlight: Design-Time Extensibility

Just a link but what a link! If you're interested in design-time extensibility for Silverlight controls then; this post is what you want. Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:40 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF: Experiment with Text Animation

I wanted to experiment with text animation. Specifically, I wanted a control that would display some text and have the option of "exploding" that text in the sense of taking each word in the text and randomly animating it in terms of; translation rotation Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:09 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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Visual Studio 2010 Resources

This post is a companion to a little article that I wrote for the UK MSDN Flash about Visual Studio 2010 with some resources to get you kick-started. It's not meant to be definitive. What? You don't read the MSDN Flash? Sign up . The first thing I'd say Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:45 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments

Xbox 360: New Xbox Experience Today

I'm not a big gamer. I hadn't turned my Xbox on for about 3 months before I recently bought Far Cry 2 which I'm playing through and really enjoying. I'm also thinking of Mirror's Edge as I played a preview of that and it looks really cool. However...today Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:45 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 7 (of 7 :-))

Following on from the previous post I had one last thing that I wanted to do. At the moment, when my application moves from one feed item to another, it simply hides the UI displaying the feed item and then shows it again at a later point which is a bit Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:42 AM by mtaulty | 6 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 6

Following on from this previous post there's a few things wrong with where I've got to so far and some improvements that I'd like to make; I'd like to display something when there's no new feed items available. I'd like some kind of transition when one Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:40 AM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 5

Following on from the previous post I wanted to take the UI that I have so far; and attempt to style that ListBox over on the right hand side. The first thing I'd do with it is to remove its background; which stops it being a big white area of the screen. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:35 AM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 4

Following up on this post it's time to make the thing look a little bit better than it does right now. Some of this will be purely cosmetic, some of it will end up requiring some code changes. In the first instance, I'll go for some "cheap wins". I'll Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:26 AM by mtaulty | 5 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 3

Following on from my previous post , I wanted to create a WPF UI around what I'd done so far. I'll step through this one a little bit. Making a new project; adding a reference to my library for using twitter feeds; now I want my WPF Window to maximise Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:19 AM by mtaulty | 3 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 2

Following on from the previous post , to get this work started I wanted to build a little library that supported what I wanted to do with the Twitter API. There's probably already a .NET library out there but I didn't search for it and my needs were fairly Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:14 AM by mtaulty | 4 Comments
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WPF and "Twistori": Part 1

I don't really use Twitter but I'm surrounded by folks that do and I'm more and more aware of its impact as if you turn up to any kind of event or gathering these days then you'll know that someone will come along and say whether it's being reported well/badly Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:10 AM by mtaulty | 8 Comments
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Windows 7: Starting at the Beginning

My previous post around the location and sensor platform in Windows 7 came a little bit out of context so apologies for that although I have since watched the PDC session and it's well worth watching. However...if you want to start at the beginning with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:51 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Windows 7: Sensor and Location Platform

One part of Windows 7 is the new capability for applications to be location and sensor aware. There are new standardised API's for an application to interact with location sensors in order to figure out where in the world the user is and there's also Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 2:58 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

A Tour of WPF

Back in 2005/2006 I spent quite a lot of time going around introducing WPF at various conferences and user groups and companies and I haven't really done so much of that "introduction" type work since. I've done a bunch of stuff with WPF and a bunch of Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:43 AM by mtaulty | 6 Comments
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Session at the VBUG Conference

I did a session on "Beyond Silverlight with WPF" down at the VBUG conference at Microsoft today. I still have "the PDC cough" and was feeling pretty terrible and so the session didn't go quite as I'd wanted it to in that I got distracted and let the time Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:39 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments
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Vista Squad meeting with Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander

I don't know how they do it :-) but those guys at the Vista squad which meets up regularly in the Microsoft London offices have managed to secure Jason Zander for a meeting on the 19th of November. Jason is General Manager of the Visual Studio Developer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:15 AM by mtaulty | 1 Comments
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UK Partners at the PDC

I met a lot of old friends, colleagues and customers whilst at PDC - it's strange to me how easy it seems to be to bump into people in such a big crowd. "Hello" to everyone that I caught up with, good to see you :-) One of the comments I heard quite frequently Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:13 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments

Back from PDC ( Cough, Cough, Cough )

I'm back from the PDC with a cough - it occurred to me whilst there that a conference like PDC is an almost perfect mechanism for spreading a (human) virus and I noticed a lot more folks coughing as the week went on. If you've got "the PDC cough" then Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:03 AM by mtaulty | 0 Comments