February 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog

Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service

Warning – bit of a sketchy post this one so apply a pinch of salt, just an idea I’ve been toying with… One of the things that I find a bit mind boggling about Silverlight 4 is the new support for pluggable navigation. I wrote about it a little here but there...

Published Sat, Feb 27 2010 6:15 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Free Client Day at Microsoft TechDays UK – London, 15th April

I wanted to do a call out for the Client development day that we’re running as part of the UK TechDays event. This is a FREE event that’s running all day in London on the 15th April and it’s targeted at developers who are interested in hearing about client...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 1:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, UKCommunities, Windows7, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog

I posted about the DeploymentCatalog in the new MEF preview the other day and I got a question or two along the lines of “show me an actual example rather than snippets” and so I thought I’d walk through a simple example here. Let’s say that I want to build...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 1:10 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Jesse Liberty at TechDays and on UK Tour

Jesse Liberty ( the Silverlight Geek ) is doing a UK and Ireland Tour talking about Silverlight and calling at; Bristol, London, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin You can find details on Jesse’s blog . His visit to London is...

Published Fri, Feb 19 2010 4:24 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities

VS2010 and IntelliTrace

Some links that I made use of today in reading about the new IntelliTrace ( or “historical debugger” ) in Visual Studio 2010… Habib ’s articles; An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part I) An in depth look at the Historical Debugger...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 3:55 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: VisualStudio

Microsoft UK TechDays – London – April 12th to 16th

Ooh, check out those graphics :-) We’re putting on a week of free ( free, free, free ) technical events in London in the week of April 12th to 16th. There are two events every day with one focused towards the “IT Professional” and the other focused towards...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 11:23 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

I’m doing a half-day “bootcamp” session with John Papa at MIX 10 and wanted to publicise that again here – if you’re already signed up for MIX then you can still revisit the pre-conference workshop registration and register for our session. If you’re not registered...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 1:23 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

New MEF Drop (Preview 9) on CodePlex!

I was pretty excited to see that there’s a new drop of MEF up on CodePlex – if you’re a reader here then you’ll know that MEF will ship with Silverlight 4 and with .NET Framework 4.0 ( it’s already in the beta/RC bits in both cases ) and there are versions...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 1:11 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

MEF in the MSDN Magazine

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 4:57 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, NETFramework4

Silverlight 4 – Implicit Styles and Themes

I hadn’t really thought properly about implicit styles in Silverlight 4 although I wrote a little about it back here and it’s something that WPF always had ( if I remember correctly ). The bit that I hadn’t really thought about was how you could set up a set...

Published Mon, Feb 15 2010 5:31 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts

I’ve been putting together a session around networking in Silverlight and I wanted to get a little more re-use out of the work that I’d put into it so I thought I could quickly turn some of it into screencasts that go onto Channel 9. In Silverlight, applications...

Published Mon, Feb 15 2010 3:59 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

WCF and netTCP Binding in Silverlight 4

Tomek has a fantastic post over here about the netTCP binding in Silverlight 4. I’m linking it so that I never lose it! :-)

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 6:45 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight & MEF Talk from the London Silverlight User Group

Just a quick plug for a talk I gave last week at the London Silverlight User Group on the Managed Extensibility Framework in Silverlight 4. Ian Smith kindly recorded this with great skill and speed and has the video available if you click the picture below;...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 1:44 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

“What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – More Than You May Realise”

I was reading Tim’s post over here with the same title as this one where he was suggesting that Microsoft may be underselling Visual Studio 2010. I suspect that the problem is that VS 2010 is huge and there’s a lot of material out there but some of it looks...

Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 12:02 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, VisualStudio

Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context

In my head, I see Silverlight 4 applications as either running; In Browser Out of Browser Out of Browser and Trusted Out of Browser and Trusted and in the presence of COM interop ( i.e. on Windows ) and you might write functionality that only works in certain...

Published Mon, Feb 1 2010 8:41 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

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Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service

Free Client Day at Microsoft TechDays UK – London, 15th April

MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog

Jesse Liberty at TechDays and on UK Tour

VS2010 and IntelliTrace

Microsoft UK TechDays – London – April 12th to 16th

Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10

New MEF Drop (Preview 9) on CodePlex!

MEF in the MSDN Magazine

Silverlight 4 – Implicit Styles and Themes

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking Screencasts

WCF and netTCP Binding in Silverlight 4

Silverlight & MEF Talk from the London Silverlight User Group

“What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – More Than You May Realise”

Silverlight 4 & MEF – Switching on functionality based on application context