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Visual Studio 2010 Launch – Edinburgh, 16th April

If you’re up in Edinburgh then you’re lucky as it’s a great city and it also has the nicest Microsoft office I’ve seen in the UK ( rooftop gardens :-) ). You’re also lucky in that on the 16th April there’s a Visual Studio 2010 launch event happening in our...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 2:56 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities, VisualStudio

Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject

I was thinking about an aspect of the new MVVM support that Expression Blend 4 has and how ( I think – someone can tell me if I’m wrong ) it all starts with a seemingly small change in data-binding in Silverlight. If I take a ViewModel like this into Expression...

Published Sat, Mar 27 2010 11:46 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, Blend

Broken Silverlight 4 Beta Apps on this Site?

Just a quick note – I’m aware that there are some pages on this site where I embedded Silverlight 4 beta applications which no longer render when you have Silverlight 4 RC. I’ll update those posts when I can in order that either the app is taken away or upgraded...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 9:07 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 RC and the “silent installation”

This is written up elsewhere but I experimented with it myself today so thought I’d share. With Silverlight 1 and 2 I used to show a picture on a slide that said something like; “Silverlight is for rich internet applications running in the browser” When Silverlight...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 12:49 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 RC – Signing trusted apps with home made certificates

I wanted to ensure that I could try out the new feature in the Silverlight 4 RC around having trusted applications that have their XAPs signed. Tim has a great post on this here and Tim’s post includes the very important words; If you want to take advantage...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 7:29 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension

Karl has what looks like a fantastic extension to the XAML editor in VS2010 here .

Published Mon, Mar 22 2010 8:26 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WPF, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes

I’ve been reading the SL4 RC docs and noticed that aspects of security have changed since the beta and since I made these screencasts on networking. I think these are positive changes and, from what I’ve seen so far both TCP and UDP sockets drop their security...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 5:52 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight

Silverlight 4 Beta to Silverlight 4 RC?

Tim’s post has the details here . For me, the points to take particular notice of are; Signed XAPs Networking sandbox is now relaxed for TCP/UDP applications when running trusted out of browser. I need to check up on whether any security policy is needed at...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:37 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

MIX10 – Day 2

Day 2 of MIX10 was a mixture of Internet Explorer, ASP.NET and oData. Internet Explorer 9 looks impressive even at this early stage and you can find demos around performance, HTML 5, standards compliance and so on over at the IE Test Drive site; and...

Published Wed, Mar 17 2010 10:46 PM by mtaulty

UK Tech Days (w/c 12th April in London) Update

A quick update on the UK Tech Days event. We now have all days live on the website for registration including the Windows Phone day and there are a fantastic array of fringe events listed as well ( hyperlinked off the image below ); Hope to see you there :...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 2:39 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: UKCommunities

MIX10 – Day 1

To say that MIX day 1 was a big day for Silverlight is a bit of an understatement. You can watch the details of it yourself up here on the visit mix website; Watch the keynote and if you then want to follow up and grab Silverlight 4 bits then visit; Silverlight...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:43 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: Silverlight

Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again :-) )

The Silverlight 4 beta came with a version of MEF that had 3 catalogs – namely AssemblyCatalog, TypeCatalog and AggregateCatalog . They’re pretty easy to understand and I made a screencast on the topic here . The Silverlight 4 preview toolkit came with a PackageCatalog...

Published Tue, Mar 9 2010 11:31 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, MEF

Website Rehosting

Just a quick plea. I’ve re-hosted my website with a new hoster so if you spot problems with the site please let me know as I’ll have no doubt forgotten to switch something on or off. Thanks. Normal service should now resume :-)

Published Tue, Mar 9 2010 12:04 PM by mtaulty

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Visual Studio 2010 Launch – Edinburgh, 16th April

Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject

Broken Silverlight 4 Beta Apps on this Site?

Silverlight 4 RC and the “silent installation”

Silverlight 4 RC – Signing trusted apps with home made certificates

VS2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Extension

Silverlight 4 RC – Socket Security Changes

Silverlight 4 Beta to Silverlight 4 RC?

MIX10 – Day 2

UK Tech Days (w/c 12th April in London) Update

MIX10 – Day 1

Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again :-) )

Website Rehosting