Monday, September 08, 2008 - Posts

posted Monday, September 08, 2008 4:24 PM by mtaulty :: 4 Comments

Silverlight, Async, Events

Warning - long post with a lot of sketched code. Largely just me "thinking aloud". I'd been reading this post about how events are a bad mechanism to use for the asynchronous programming model in Silverlight and then this follow up post. This reminded Read More

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posted Monday, September 08, 2008 7:56 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

SQL 2008, Filestream, Docs from VB

Someone asked me if I had a simple sample of how to read/write documents into a database table using FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008. I set about it. Firstly, I had to find out how to switch FILESTREAM on in the RTM of SQL Server. At times like this you Read More

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posted Monday, September 08, 2008 5:17 AM by mtaulty :: 1 Comments

Installation - Silverlight/Flash

I met a customer the other day who had concerns around the way in which Silverlight was being installed. Specifically, he compared it to the way in which Adobe installs their Flash player and his question left me a bit confused so I thought I'd write Read More

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posted Monday, September 08, 2008 3:18 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

Expression Blend 2 in MSDN

A bit of an unusual post this one but someone asked me at an event last week; "How come only Expression Blend V1 is on MSDN and not V2" Now, this struck me as a little odd but I don't have an active MSDN subscription at the moment ( note to self - get Read More

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posted Monday, September 08, 2008 12:25 AM by mtaulty :: 0 Comments

DevDays Amsterdam Content

I never knew this was here but the content from DevDays Amsterdam with sessions from my self around ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework are all available online up here; http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/event.aspx?id=102 There's Read More