January 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Catching up on some blog reading

Just some links that I caught up with today that struck me as interesting. Ribbon UI in Silverlight Tim’s List of Silverlight Controls Keith’s got a new certificate creation tool The Road to Windows Workflow V4.0

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 3:43 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Crikey. This is a “first” for me – I came across this Wrox Press book; and 3 of the 4 guys on the front cover are from the UK Microsoft development consulting team where I used to work. I sometimes pick up a book and know an author on the front cover...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 3:04 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Mesh Squared

Ahh…..this post lets me have my developer Mesh and my consumer Mesh. Use Mesh Client Beta and Live Framework Client Side by Side Lovely.

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 3:01 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: WindowsLive, LiveFramework, Mesh

Live Framework SDK – Revised WPF Photo Sharing Application

I’ve taken the application that I last mentioned here and I’ve been working on it a little more. I’m not quite where I want to be just yet but I thought I’d walk through it a little and share the code. The application runs up like this; and it immediately tries...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 2:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, LiveFramework, Mesh

Anonymous Methods, Lambdas, Confusion

In talking about Parallel FX yesterday , I was using syntax such as; Task t = new Task(() => { Console.WriteLine( "Hello World" ); }); and it generated some puzzled looks from the attendees. Not surprisingly, not everyone out there is on .NET Framework...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 7:31 AM by mtaulty

Why is Deleting Code so Satisfying?

If I was a plumber then I guess if I hit a situation where I’d put in place a big heating system and a bunch of pipework and I then suddenly thought; Wait a minute, I’ve just spotted a much better way of doing this! then I doubt that my next thought would be...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 4:53 PM by mtaulty

Slides from .NET DevNet Talk on Parallel Extensions

I’ve published the slides from my . NET Dev Net talk this evening on the Parallel Extensions to .NET. They’re here; http://www.slideshare.net/ukdpe/miketaultypfxslideshare The slides aren’t too bad – to be honest, the talk wasn’t my best ever as I broke one...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 4:52 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions

static constructors, thread affinity, debugging

Or, perhaps a better title would be; “ Why it’s better to debug with the Threads window visible” I puzzled over something in a debugger for about 5 minutes the other day so I thought I’d share. I had some WPF code where I had a static class in which I wanted...

Published Fri, Jan 23 2009 1:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET

Live Framework SDK - “Concurrent Operations are Not Supported”

I’m trying to write some code against the Live Framework SDK and I was trying to avoid hanging my UI so I figured that what I’d do is to use all the async options within the object model. So…as a for instance – if I have data backed by 5 MeshObjects on the...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 3:40 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LiveFramework, AzureServicesPlatform, Mesh

C#, Lambdas, closures, value types

Blogging this in order that I remember in the future that I have been around this “loop” many times and that this code; int x = 1; Action a = new Action( ( ) => { x++; }); a( ); Console.WriteLine( x ); prints a value of 2 whereas this code; int x = 1; Action<...

Published Fri, Jan 16 2009 4:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#

Windows:7, Channel:9

Wow, I guess today is "Windows 7 Day". If you're trying to get the bits then "good luck" as all I'm seeing right now is; which has to be representative of how many people are trying to grab that beta :-) So, if you're frustrated with that or you're downloading...

Published Fri, Jan 9 2009 10:17 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7

Live Framework SDK - more on inviting others

This previous post had me thinking that the WPF application that I built across these posts; Live Framework SDK - More Steps Live Framework SDK - Having a Single MeshObject Live Framework SDK - Adding a Silverlight MEWA would start to improve if I offered the...

Published Fri, Jan 9 2009 9:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, WindowsLive, LiveFramework, Mesh

MSDNEvents.Publicise()

We have some events coming up in February in the UK that I want to try and promote a little. Here's the list of events we've got coming up under the MSDN banner ( click the picture to go to the page and sign-up ); As you can see, it's largely centred around...

Published Thu, Jan 8 2009 1:28 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Live Framework SDK - Inviting Others

Following on from this previous post , the WPF and Silverlight code that I've been running tries to access a MeshObject ( containing a DataFeed of photos ) that the code itself creates at initialisation time. What I wasn't sure about at all was how that'd work...

Published Wed, Jan 7 2009 4:14 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WindowsLive, LiveFramework, AzureServicesPlatform, Mesh

Live Framework SDK - Adding a Silverlight MEWA

Having written a small amount of WPF code for the previous post , I was wondering how hard it'd be to now write a Silverlight Mesh Enabled Web Application ( MEWA ) and access the same data that I was using from my WPF application. I set off down the route of...

Published Wed, Jan 7 2009 6:15 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, WindowsLive, LiveFramework, Mesh