March 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio Beta 1

Meanwhile, over in a corner of the internet; http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/03/27/9514938.aspx news starts to leak out about what the Parallel Extensions might look like in Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. Does this mean a beta is on its way? Stay...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 4:23 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions, VisualStudio

Expression Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviours

From the Expression Blend blog; An Introduction to Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions Behaviors Under the Hood – API Details and Constraining the Type My only worry about some of this stuff is that it seems to be happening in Expression Blend rather than in Silverlight...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 4:16 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Planning a Silverlight 2 Talk

I’ve got some Silverlight 2 talks to deliver this week and I was planning them a little on the sofa tonight whilst watching Damages (with its plots-on-top-of-plots :-S) and so I thought it might be fun to share my sketches. I often plan out talks like this...

Published Sun, Mar 29 2009 3:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

ADO.NET Data Services Session at SQL Bits Manchester

A big thanks to all the people who came along to my session at SQLBits today on ADO.NET Data Services and also to the organisers and community around SQLBits that made the event happen in the first place. I was there for most of the afternoon and it seemed...

Published Sat, Mar 28 2009 1:05 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, SQLServer, UKCommunities, DataAccess, DataServices

C# and Optional Parameters

I talked a little at DevWeek about C# 4 and Visual Basic 10 and, in the C# section of that talk, I talked about optional parameters and named parameters coming into the language. I presented an example class something like this one; class P e r s o n { public...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 12:55 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: C#, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

Windows Azure - .NET Services and the Service Bus

I’ll be honest. I haven’t done much with Windows Azure at this point. The list of technologies that I need to “spend time on” never seems to shrink and the pieces in Azure have so far escaped me although I do have a long-standing interest in all this service...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 9:35 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: WindowsLive, WindowsAzure

DevWeek Follow Up

I did a couple of sessions at DevWeek this week and had a really good time meeting up with various folks and chatting about technologies. My sessions were on; VB and C# in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/Javascript...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 8:38 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: C#, VB, Silverlight, UKCommunities, NETFramework4, ParallelExtensions

Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours

I’m still very much in a mode where I’m trying to catch up with Mix09. I’ve been watching this video about Behaviours in Expression Blend 3 and it led me on to this gallery of behaviours up here which looks pretty cool to me. So far I’ve only tried the MessageBox...

Published Fri, Mar 27 2009 8:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight, NETFramework4

Microsoft Architect Insight Conference – 8th May, London

A quick word for the AIC, the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference happening in the Microsoft offices in London on the 8th May – you can find the full details by clicking on the picture below; It’s an action-packed agenda with around 20 speakers taking part...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 4:34 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

DevDays 2009 – 28th and 29th May, World Forum in the Hague

I’m very pleased to say that I’m going to be returning to Holland for DevDays 2009. Last year was the first year that I’ve been to DevDays and it was largely on the advice of Daniel who I have to thank for introducing me to one of the most enjoyable (and well...

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 4:12 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

DevWeek 2009

Just a quick advertisement to say that I’ll be at DevWeek in London next week from Tuesday until Thursday. I’m doing sessions on; C# and VB in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions to .NET in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/JavaScript interoperability...

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 2:50 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Silverlight 3 – What Are RIA Services?

Via Brad Abrams; http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/03/19/what-is-net-ria-services.aspx

Published Thu, Mar 19 2009 1:23 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 3: More Posts?

Just a quick note – I didn’t want anyone to think that I’d given up on Silverlight 3 or that these posts; A quick look at Silverlight 3- MIX 08 WPF Demo Copy in Silverlight 3 A quick look at Silverlight 3- Projections A quick look at Silverlight 3- Running...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 1:42 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

A quick look at Silverlight 3: DataForm Control

There’s a really cool new data control in Silverlight 3, the DataForm – it’s quite a big control so rather than write about it here, I made a screencast about it which is up here;

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 12:20 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

A quick look at Silverlight 3: Save File Dialog

Silverlight 3 gets a Save File Dialog. Anyone who’s used Silverlight 2 and its Open File Dialog will feel instantly at home as in; S a v e F i l e D i a l o g s f d = new S a v e F i l e D i a l o g ( ) { D e f a u l t E x t = "txt" , F i l t e r...

Published Wed, Mar 18 2009 12:07 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

March 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Blogs

Syndication

Elsewhere

UK Team

Tags

Archives

Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio Beta 1

Expression Blend 3: Triggers, Actions, Behaviours

Planning a Silverlight 2 Talk

ADO.NET Data Services Session at SQL Bits Manchester

C# and Optional Parameters

Windows Azure - .NET Services and the Service Bus

DevWeek Follow Up

Expression Blend 3 & Behaviours

Microsoft Architect Insight Conference – 8th May, London

DevDays 2009 – 28th and 29th May, World Forum in the Hague

DevWeek 2009

Silverlight 3 – What Are RIA Services?

Silverlight 3: More Posts?

A quick look at Silverlight 3: DataForm Control

A quick look at Silverlight 3: Save File Dialog