February 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

MSDN Rich Client Event – Manchester (well, Salford)

If you came along to our Rich Client event at The Lowry on Salford Quays; today then thanks a lot and I hope you found it useful. Here’s some snapshots I grabbed from the back of the event with MikeO talking about control templating; and if you...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2009 4:32 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Visual Studio 2010 UI

There’s a preview of what Visual Studio 2010 looks like up on Jason Zander’s blog; http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/ It’s looking pretty cool – I’ve been playing with some of this but, then again, there’s a bunch of new stuff there that I hadn’t seen before. Now...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 3:53 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, VisualStudio

MSDN Rich Client Event - Edinburgh

Thanks to all the people who came to along to our Rich Client event in the Microsoft Edinburgh office today. If you’re looking for resources then you probably want to check out; this post here which will point you to other posts that have the demos and slides...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 10:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities

Parallel Extensions talk at NxtGen User Group, Coventry

A big thanks to all the people who came along to my talk on Parallel Extensions at the NxtGen User Group in Coventry last night. The slides that were used should be visible up on SlideShare if you want them for any reason. Note to self: “Coventry is not ‘right...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 12:34 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions

“Dave is God” (of WPF and Surface)

Dave has just started a blog over here which you should subscribe to if you’ve an interest in topics like UI, WPF, Silverlight or Surface. Actually, you should just subscribe anyway as it’s really cool stuff regardless of your interests :-) Dave works in our...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2009 5:00 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Surface

Live Framework SDK – DataEntries, SyncEntries, NewsItems

I’ve been playing with a little WPF desktop application that creates “notes” using the Live Framework SDK on Live Mesh. It’s intentionally simple and it looks like this; and the notes are the little TextBoxes over in the ListBox on the right hand side. There...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2009 12:32 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LiveFramework, WindowsAzure, Mesh

Blu and ClickOnce

I’m really liking this Blu Twitter Client; I’ve honestly no idea whether it’s a good or bad Twitter client as I only recently joined Twitter and I’ve never really tried any other clients so I’ve nothing to compare with. But that’s not the reason why I like...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2009 1:28 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

MSDN “Catch up with Rich Clients” event in Birmingham

Thanks to all who attended our event in Birmingham this afternoon. Follow up resources are linked to from; My post here Mike’s post here Some photos from the excellent venue in Birmingham;

Published Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:22 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, UKCommunities, NETFramework4

Powershell and the Live Framework SDK?

I have this little command line app that I’ve been using to navigate my developer Mesh with the Live Framework SDK. It started out as very basic but then today I realised that I should really extend it so that you can use it something like; cd cloud list objects...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2009 6:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WindowsLive, LiveFramework, Mesh

WPF, CheckBoxes, Design

Just to clear up the confusion :-) When MikeO said yesterday that there was clearly no way that a CheckBox as beautiful as this one on the right; could have been designed by me then he was wrong – it is indeed one of my “masterpieces of interactive design”...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2009 5:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

MSDN Event – Catching up with Rich Clients

I did an event down in London with MikeO today called something along the lines of “Catching up with Rich Clients”. This is us in the “packed and warm” Microsoft, London office; The essential idea of it was to provide an overview of what’s been going on with...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2009 9:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

WPF, ComboBox, FontFamilies

Of course, WPF being WPF, there’s an elegant solution to getting a ComboBox onto the screen with a set of FontFamily objects displayed in it as I wanted in my last post . I can just go and write a bit of XAML as in; < ComboBox ItemsSource ="{Binding...

Published Mon, Feb 9 2009 2:38 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

WPF, Font Selection, Colour Selection

WPF needs some built-in (or toolkit) controls for selecting fonts and colours. There’s a font dialog article here and a sample here but (for me) I’m not sure that I always want a dialog, I might just want a group of combo boxes or a drop down or similar and...

Published Mon, Feb 9 2009 1:28 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF

64-bit, WPF, WebBrowser

Just after I published this application , Mario mailed me and said that he liked the app but that he was running on 64-bit and the Silverlight content wouldn’t display. He (being a 64-bit user) already knew what it was likely to be but it opened up an interesting...

Published Wed, Feb 4 2009 2:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight & WPF Control Browser

More than once, I’ve found myself wanting to be able to demonstrate the range of controls that are available for Silverlight and WPF and, today, I ended up in that same place and decided to do something about it. I built a very, very simple WPF application...

Published Tue, Feb 3 2009 11:40 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, NETFramework4

February 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

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MSDN Rich Client Event – Manchester (well, Salford)

Visual Studio 2010 UI

MSDN Rich Client Event - Edinburgh

Parallel Extensions talk at NxtGen User Group, Coventry

“Dave is God” (of WPF and Surface)

Live Framework SDK – DataEntries, SyncEntries, NewsItems

Blu and ClickOnce

MSDN “Catch up with Rich Clients” event in Birmingham

Powershell and the Live Framework SDK?

WPF, CheckBoxes, Design

MSDN Event – Catching up with Rich Clients

WPF, ComboBox, FontFamilies

WPF, Font Selection, Colour Selection

64-bit, WPF, WebBrowser

Silverlight & WPF Control Browser