October 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

In talking to UK customers about building business applications with Silverlight I often mention Prism or “ Composite Application Guidance ” that comes from the Patterns and Practices team and I’ve met a few people who either haven’t heard of Prism or have found it a bit hard to get into and so have put it to one side to look at “later”. I thought I’d take a wander around Prism myself and as part of doing that I put together a bunch of screencasts that I’ve just published to Channel 9 which take a look at a few of the Prism topics like; Dependency Injection Unity Modularity Shells, Regions, Views Commands Event Aggregation and I also put together a longer screencast that tries to walk through building a simple Silverlight “email client” using the ideas contained in the other screencasts. I’ve published 10 videos to Channel 9 – the starting point is the big picture below which links to video 1; and then the videos should all be cross-linked or you can jump to them using the hyperlinks below; Part 1: Taking Sketched...

Similar to the previous Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight videos of Scott’s sessions at the Manchester “ Guathon ” event the other week, here’s the video of the ASP.NET MVC (and MVC 2) session that Scott did to start the day. Copying what I said about the previous videos; I tried as best I could to maintain the high-def nature of what was shot across the 2 video feeds and the additional audio feed and that caused me a little trouble as I struggled to find somewhere to put the GBs of rendered video once I’d produced it :-) Ultimately, I’ll try and get these to Channel 9 but in the meantime, here’s a quick cut of the session. Note that the partitioning of  the session into 2 pieces is pretty brutal in that one video stops and the next one immediately begins. Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - ASP.NET MVC(2) Part 1 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - ASP.NET MVC(2) Part 2 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - ASP.NET MVC(2) Part 3 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - ASP.NET MVC(2) Part 4 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - ASP...

As today looks to be the day that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework V4.0 beta 2 become available for download; I thought it’d be good to get my skates on and publish the video footage of Scott Guthrie talking about that very topic at the “ Guathon ” event that happened in Manchester the other week. I tried as best I could to maintain the high-def nature of what was shot across the 2 video feeds and the additional audio feed and that caused me a little trouble as I struggled to find somewhere to put the ~5GB of rendered video once I’d produced it :-) Ultimately, I’ll try and get these to Channel 9 but in the meantime, here’s a quick cut of the session to line up with Visual Studio going out today. Note that the partitioning of  the session into 4 pieces is pretty brutal in that one video stops and the next one immediately begins. Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - Visual Studio 2010 Part 1 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - Visual Studio 2010 Part 2 Scott Guthrie - Manchester UK - Visual Studio 2010 Part 3 Scott...

If you came along to the talk that I did for the Linked In .NET User Group today via Live Meeting then thanks very much for doing that and I promised you a number of links which I’m listing here. I showed bunch of different items; “WPF Airlines” Logical Pixels Tiled image brushes Tiled geometry brushes Tiled visual brushes Path based animations 3D Cube with ambient light and spotlights 2D on 3D integration Documents HTML Frame Control Ink and Gestures Code - Ink and Gesture Code - Speech Unified document using various pieces Binding – static binding Binding – ObjectDataProvider to databind enum values Binding – ObjectDataProvider to databind a process list Binding – XmlDataProvider to databind a twitter RSS feed Binding – Multibinding to DateTime.Now Triggers – simple trigger on a rectangle Triggers – simple trigger to control volume on a video Code – Commands in my notepad like example Code – Printing using the “WPF Airlines” application Code - HTML Interop with WebBrowser Code – Windows Forms Interop and all...