June 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

Upgrading Community Server 2.1 to 2008.5 Service Pack 1

I’ve been a bit stuck with blog engines. I run Community Server and have done for a long time and, during that time, the product’s become very big and very rich and I only use about 10% of what it does. I just want a blog engine. I was recently considering...

Published Mon, Jun 22 2009 9:38 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Office

Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 2 )

Following on from my previous post and remembering that I’m just playing around here and there are better resources up at; http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsTouch which will lead you to a full, sample interop library wrapper. I wanted to carry on a little...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 2:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Windows7

Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 1 )

I was down in the Microsoft Technology Centre at Reading the other week where I got a chance to take a look at a piece of proof-of-concept work that one of our customers is doing around using touch in Windows 7 to improve the user experience of one of their...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 2:41 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Windows7

Video Catch-Up: Trip reports from DevDays Holland and NxtGenUG Fest 09

I dropped a couple of videos to YouTube around recent trips that I’ve made. A couple of weeks ago I was at DevDays Holland delivering some sessions around Silverlight 3 and WPF and I captured a bit of video with the intention of giving people a flavour of what...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2009 1:14 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Speaking at MIX Essentials, Dublin, 24th June

Just a quick plug – I’ll be doing some sessions on Silverlight 3 at MIX Essentials in Dublin on the 24th June. Click the picture above to jump to the site where you can register. It’s an all day event with 2 tracks running concurrently and I like the strap...

Published Mon, Jun 15 2009 2:43 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

WCF, Type Names and BehaviorExtensionElement

This is one purely for a search engine. If you’re ever looking at WCF and adding a BehaviorExtensionElement in order to add custom behaviors then take care if you see an error message like; "Verify that the extension is registered in the extension collection...

Published Mon, Jun 15 2009 1:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WCF

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 6 – Porting to WPF )

Following on from this post . As expected, porting my Utilities library to WPF wasn’t too difficult. It was a matter of creating a WPFUtilities class library, adding the existing source from Utilities as linked code files and then referencing PresentationCore...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 4:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 5 – Running the app and thinking about WPF )

Following on from my previous post it’s time to run up the app ( it’s not exactly a visual feast :-) ) and experiment a little with it. I can log in as my user ursula ; and she’s presented with “the UI” ( the graph should probably...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 4:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 4 – Adding some controls )

Following up on this post I thought the first control I’d build would be a graph control so I just referenced the Silverlight Toolkit for its graphs and very quickly had; <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication6.Controls.ChartDisplayControl"...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 4:18 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 3 – Getting some data )

Following up on this previous post I wanted to start building out some classes that managed data for me “in front” of the services I’d built. I figured that I needed data for my chart, data for my products and reference data and so I sketched...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 4:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 2 – Building some web services )

Following up from this post , I set about building some services to power my application’s data requirements. These aren’t perfect by any means but they’re enough for a sample application to get going with. Working from the sketch of how the...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 3:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 1 – Authentication, Roles and Logging In )

I wanted to try and follow up on this idea of the XAML Continuum and the basic example that I did with Silverlight and WPF versions of the Pong game by doing something that looked a bit more like a business application. I figured that I’d take my trusty...

Published Sun, Jun 14 2009 3:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight 3 Session at NxtGen Fest 09, Microsoft Research Cambridge

I was at the NxtGen Fest 09 event in Cambrdige today talking about Silverlight 3. A truly fantastic day with a cracking start from Professor Chris Bishop of Royal Institute Christmas lectures fame; who was talking about 3rd generation artificial intelligence...

Published Fri, Jun 12 2009 6:33 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities

WPF and Silverlight Difference Whitepaper

Wintellect have published this whitepaper on CodePlex on the differences between WPF and Silverlight. I haven’t read it all myself yet as it’s reasonably meaty but from what I’ve seen it’s a very valuable resource to have to hand if you’re working with both...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2009 1:14 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Building a Viewbox-like control

I found myself reading this post today as I wanted to build a Silverlight control which is a little like Viewbox in that it has ( let’s say ) a single lump of content that it wants to display and I was struggling to find the right base class for it. Why? Because...

Published Tue, Jun 9 2009 2:32 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

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Upgrading Community Server 2.1 to 2008.5 Service Pack 1

Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 2 )

Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 1 )

Video Catch-Up: Trip reports from DevDays Holland and NxtGenUG Fest 09

Speaking at MIX Essentials, Dublin, 24th June

WCF, Type Names and BehaviorExtensionElement

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 6 – Porting to WPF )

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 5 – Running the app and thinking about WPF )

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 4 – Adding some controls )

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 3 – Getting some data )

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 2 – Building some web services )

Silverlight: Product Maintenance Application ( Part 1 – Authentication, Roles and Logging In )

Silverlight 3 Session at NxtGen Fest 09, Microsoft Research Cambridge

WPF and Silverlight Difference Whitepaper

Building a Viewbox-like control