May 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

DevDays Holland – Follow Up, Slides, Demos

I’m just back from DevDays where I had a really great time and delivered a 2-part session on; What’s Coming in Silverlight 3 and another single session on; Beyond Silverlight with WPF if you came along to my sessions then thanks very much for doing that and...

Published Sat, May 30 2009 8:44 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Process list in XAML plus a bit of virtualisation with the .NET Client Profile

It’s a public holiday in the UK and the weather’s turned sour but playing with XAML and WPF can still bring on a smile – I’m not claiming it’s anything new or clever but I enjoyed it ( paste into Kaxaml or XamlPad to view ); <Page xmlns="...

Published Mon, May 25 2009 3:14 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Windows7

Windows 7: What’s there for Developers?

Internally, I’ve had a number of people ask me “What’s in Windows 7 for Developers?” or “What will developers get out of Windows 7?” and so I thought I’d put together a short post with some links around places to go for information on Windows 7 and what to...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 7:38 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7

Experimental post to try code-formatting in Live Writer

On advice from Twitter :-) I’m trying a new code-formatting plug-in for Live Writer. It’s this one from here . Here’s an experimental piece of code that my previous plug-in wasn’t coping with very well, let’s see if this post shows up and whether it causes...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 4:23 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Expression Blend 3: Trying a Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Part 2)

Following on from this post , I wanted to try and connect my DraggableBehavior to my DropTrigger but I wasn’t quite sure how to make that work and so I just went for a pretty cheap-and-cheerful mechanism that’s a long way from perfect as it stands at the moment...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 2:46 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

13th May – Session at the SQL Servers User’s Group at Microsoft, Reading

Just a quick plug – tomorrow evening I’m doing a session on ADO.NET Data Services (“Astoria”) at the SQL Server User’s Group at Microsoft, Reading. See here for details; http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/167/Sessions-on-Understanding-ADONET-Data-Services-Windows...

Published Tue, May 12 2009 10:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, XML, WebServices, SQLServer, VisualStudio

Expression Blend 3: Trying a drag-and-drop behavior (part 1)

I tried to take this post a little futher by trying to build a drag-and-drop behaviour. It’s still something that I’m working on. I built a DraggableBehavior which is pretty similar to the one that’s found in the Sample Silverlight 3 Behaviors in the gallery...

Published Fri, May 8 2009 4:44 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Expression Blend 3: More on Actions, Triggers, Behaviors

I figured that it was time for me to try and fathom Behaviors in Expression Blend 3. I’d seen quite a bit about them, I’ve seen them used but I hadn’t sat down and tried to do anything with them myself. First off, I read some very good backgrounders over here;...

Published Fri, May 8 2009 6:18 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET

I’m reading Yochay’s posts up at the Windows 7 for Developers blog; http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/rss.aspx It’s all great material – one of the things that I hadn’t been aware of was that if in a WPF application ( on 3.5 Service Pack 1 ) I’m using...

Published Tue, May 5 2009 4:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7

Windows 7 – How Does Task Manager Do That?

I’ve just finished making my complete move to Windows 7. I’ve been running Windows 7 for a while on a number of machines but with the RC I thought I’d move lock-stock-and-barrel to Windows 7. One of the first things that hit me was around the UAC options. I...

Published Tue, May 5 2009 2:01 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Windows7

Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? :-)

I’ve started to experiment with the RIA Services Framework and I’ve noticed that it uses the “buddy class” pattern that I first saw in ASP.NET dynamic data. The basic idea is that you’ve got some class that is generated by a tool (pseudo-code); public partial...

Published Fri, May 1 2009 2:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, ASP.NET, DynamicData

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DevDays Holland – Follow Up, Slides, Demos

Process list in XAML plus a bit of virtualisation with the .NET Client Profile

Windows 7: What’s there for Developers?

Experimental post to try code-formatting in Live Writer

Expression Blend 3: Trying a Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Part 2)

13th May – Session at the SQL Servers User’s Group at Microsoft, Reading

Expression Blend 3: Trying a drag-and-drop behavior (part 1)

Expression Blend 3: More on Actions, Triggers, Behaviors

Windows 7 for Developers – File Dialogs from .NET

Windows 7 – How Does Task Manager Do That?

Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? :-)