January 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog

MSFT – A Simple System for Microsoft Session Feedback

I’ve been to lots of conferences or meetings where people (Microsoft or not) are delivering technical sessions relating to Microsoft technology. I’ve also spoken at lots of those things as well. A recurring problem is getting feedback. Sometimes it’s a long...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 1:06 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Silverlight in “Advert Worth Watching” Shocker! :-)

There’s an ad over on MSN UK for the new “Mass Effect 2” game and it’s very distinctive as it’s done in Silverlight and has some really cool aspects to it such as making use of Smooth Streaming and DeepZoom. It’s not often ( well, ever ) that I’ve linked to...

Published Sat, Jan 30 2010 11:54 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop?

I was reading Tim’s post over here on “Silverlight 4 with COM can do anything – on Windows” which referenced Justin’s amazingly detailed post with a bunch of COM interop examples from Silverlight 4 . A Silverlight 4 beta application that has been explicitly...

Published Fri, Jan 22 2010 1:34 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight in Seventy Seven Slides ( yes, I know ;-) )

Back in the old days, I used to do a lot more in-person talks/sessions for developers and one of the things that myself and colleagues would discuss is whether a topic was well developed enough to warrant a; What Is? session or a; What’s New With? session....

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 1:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?”

I was looking for an example of how Silverlight content is drawn with vectors that I could use in a slide-deck and it occurred to me to look at Bing Maps . I think the Bing Maps beta is pretty stunning and I was searching my blog for where I’d made reference...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 11:39 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model

One of the things that seems hard-baked into MEF if you watch the Silverlight 4 and MEF screencasts that I’ve made is that MEF relies on attributes. It’s common to see an example such as this skeleton class; public class PluginManager { public PluginManager...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 4:36 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

End of Year Traffic Report :-)

I was reviewing the traffic figures that my hoster ( http://www.webhost4life.com ) gives me for this blog site and I thought I’d share. This is how 2009 ended; So around ~30M hits to around ~15M pages and just under 1TB of data shifted across the network. Those...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 9:02 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File

One of the things I often find when publishing blog posts is that I want to display a bunch of files. For instance – in talking about WPF or Silverlight you might be trying to show something that involves a XAML file and a couple of code files and it can be...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 3:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight Session at NEBytes, 20th January, Newcastle

Just a quick plug for a session that I’m delivering at a new Microsoft User Group in Newcastle on the 20th January. The group is called “NEBytes” and you can find it and details of the sessions on the 20th by clicking their banner below; I’m delivering a session...

Published Thu, Jan 7 2010 1:16 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities

iMeta Agility & Silverlight

Just a little plug for a video I made just before Xmas with the guys from iMeta , a UK company that’s built a scrum tool called iMeta Agility with Silverlight. The picture’s hyperlinked to their video on Channel 9 – click to take a look and, also, try the latest...

Published Wed, Jan 6 2010 2:33 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog

One of the things that I talked about in the screencasts that I made about Silverlight 4 and MEF was the PackageCatalog. By the way – to make any sense of this stuff you need to install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight 4 Beta . The PackageCatalog is...

Published Mon, Jan 4 2010 8:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

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MSFT – A Simple System for Microsoft Session Feedback

Silverlight in “Advert Worth Watching” Shocker! :-)

Silverlight 4 – Writing a Windows-Only Application via COM Interop?

Silverlight in Seventy Seven Slides ( yes, I know ;-) )

Silverlight, Bing Maps, Vectors and “Did I blog this or did I just dream it?”

Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model

End of Year Traffic Report :-)

Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File

Silverlight Session at NEBytes, 20th January, Newcastle

iMeta Agility & Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog