December 2009 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 4 Screencasts - the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

One of the interesting things about Silverlight 4 is the inclusion of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and I think it really helps to build the case for Silverlight 4 as a great platform for business applications. Silverlight applications are rich...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 4:23 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

“Can a Mac-Only Shop do Silverlight Development?”

Loved this; As an aside, I spent some time exploring Eclipse4SL in Eclipse on OS X the other week – I might post some thoughts on that here.

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 6:19 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend

Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio()

Ok, ok – this will be the last post about webcams and capturing video. I’ve got to stop :-) BUT…I thought I’d modify the code from the last post a little in order to try and capture audio along with the video. This opened up some “interesting questions” in...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 5:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams

In this previous post , I wrote some code that took a particular approach to saving uncompressed AVI files (i.e. just frames consisting of device-independent-bitmaps) from the webcam in Silverlight 4 by writing an application that; Saved video from the webcam...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 6:11 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox

I’ve been using Twitter and one of the things that I followed recently was the Silverlight forums and that caused a question to bob up on my screen just yesterday; I haven’t replied back to the original poster as I don’t imagine that I’ve got the solution to...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 5:38 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Highlights of 2009

I copied this idea from Eric (and Mike ) and thought I’d try and drill out my own set of “top 5” blog posts for 2009 as it draws to a close. Here’s the top 5 most viewed blog posts that I wrote this year; Silverlight & WPF Control Browser A quick look at...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 5:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Giorgio’s Writing on IE8

Giorgio has some interesting posts that he’s putting out over here on his blog; I’m just working my way through the most recent two at the time of writing; IE8 and HTML 5 IE8 and Web Standards

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 4:08 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: IE

Silverlight 4 – More on Capturing Video from WebCams

Apply a pinch of salt here, this is a work-in-progress….:-) I wanted to follow up a little on the blog post I wrote about capturing video/audio from the webcam/microphone with Silverlight 4. In that post I’d written a little about how you could take the audio...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 4:08 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio

Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews

The other day I had a talk to give which included a little around Windows 7 shell programming in .NET 4.0 Beta 2 and I hadn’t really looked at it so I took a few mins out to take a look at how you can program the Taskbar in Windows 7 from WPF in Visual Studio...

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 1:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, WPF, Windows7, NETFramework4

17th December London: (Free) VS 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management Event

Just a quick plug for an event happening in London on the 17th December in partnership with Black Marble – I’ve copied the description below from the original link DATE: 17 December. Location - Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London...

Published Mon, Dec 7 2009 2:03 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities, VisualStudio

Updated Live Writer Search Plug-In with Bit.ly

A long time ago I wrote a plug-in for Live Writer that did a Windows Live Search for you and let you paste the results. I won’t bang on about it too much here as I wrote it up at the time and it’s preserved for eternity here . I use this a lot in Live Writer...

Published Fri, Dec 4 2009 4:47 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, LiveWriter

Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0

This is what’s known as a “on the train” project :-) I wanted to get a version of Kaxaml that understood WPF 4.0 Beta 2 and so I spotted that the source was on CodePlex and thought I’d set about downloading it and seeing if I could get something going. I should...

Published Fri, Dec 4 2009 2:06 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, NETFramework4

Font Squirrel!

I picked this up via Ian as a great resource for fonts so just blogging it here to avoid losing it; I’m browsing the most downloaded as I write this….

Published Thu, Dec 3 2009 10:53 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Silverlight 4 – Sharing Assemblies with .NET Applications

This one’s just a link but an important link for anyone who’s heard that you can share assemblies between the Silverlight CLR and the full .NET desktop/server CLR. The CLR team has a blog post with the details; Sharing Silverlight Assemblies with .NET Apps

Published Thu, Dec 3 2009 3:34 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, NETFramework4

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence

Great post from Pete over here about Silverlight/WPF convergence; “The Future of Client App Dev: WPF and Silverlight Convergence” It’s funny as someone asked me just yesterday what my view was about Silverlight/WPF post-PDC and in the light of Silverlight 4...

Published Tue, Dec 1 2009 3:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight, NETFramework4

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Silverlight 4 Screencasts - the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

“Can a Mac-Only Shop do Silverlight Development?”

Silverlight 4 – WebCams.OnceMoreWithAudio()

Silverlight 4 – Yet More on Capturing Video from Webcams

Silverlight 4 – Grabbing Emails from the Outlook Inbox

Highlights of 2009

Giorgio’s Writing on IE8

Silverlight 4 – More on Capturing Video from WebCams

Windows 7 & WPF 4.0 Beta – Taskbar programming of jumplists and thumbnail previews

17th December London: (Free) VS 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management Event

Updated Live Writer Search Plug-In with Bit.ly

Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0

Font Squirrel!

Silverlight 4 – Sharing Assemblies with .NET Applications

Pete Brown on Silverlight and WPF Convergence